Paul’s AWI project

[FierceKitty]

That's huge!

...as the actress said to the bishop.

[paulr]

Right, after much checking the final totals are in
NO correspondence will be entered into and I am NOT counting them again as I may come up with different answers

British Southern Army, The Carolinas, 1780-1

488 Infantry & gunners
34 Cavalry
29 Officers
3 Guns
554 Total

American Southern Army, The Carolinas, 1780-1

613 Infantry & gunners
29 Cavalry
29 Officers
3 Guns
674 Total

Grand Totals

1,101 Infantry & gunners
63 Cavalry
58 Officers
6 Guns
1,228 Total

[paulr]

I've made good progress on the current 'batch', four built up areas including Guilford Courthouse and Hoskins farm

The bases are painted, the buildings, hedges and fences are undercoated and glued on the bases

Domestic duties as I prepare for my trip to the Philippines will slow progress down, then four weeks of no progress while I'm away

Seven more buildings, two wagons and 30 Native Americans and this project will be finished

[Westmarcher]

Wow! 484 British infantry. To take one example, Cornwallis only had about 2000 at Camden and Guilford Courthouse so this suggests your armies are roughly 1 to 5 scale? Anyway, for me, they give a really good impression of what Revolutionary War/ AWI armies might have looked at on the field. Great work, sir!   

[paulr]

Wow! 484 British infantry. To take one example, Cornwallis only had about 2000 at Camden and Guilford Courthouse so this suggests your armies are roughly 1 to 5 scale? Anyway, for me, they give a really good impression of what Revolutionary War/ AWI armies might have looked at on the field. Great work, sir!   

There 5 battalions in the army that weren't at Guilford Courthouse and the scale varies a bit depending on unit strengths but it's between 1:8 and 1:10

Thanks for the kind words, I'm very pleased with how they have turned out.

[paulr]

I have managed to fit in a little filling around domestic duties so all the buildings and hedges are nicely settled in on their bases

The porch I have 'borrowed' from another building for the courthouse seems to be fitting

[paulr]

Touched up the undercoat on the buildings and filler
Did a bit more filling to blend the buildings into the bases more

Made a dozen firing markers for infantry units
There is a lot more infantry firing in the wing scale AWI games than in our brigade scale Napolenic games

[paulr]

Arrived in Manila last night, having great fun catching up with 13 nephews and neices and all the rest of the family.

Slowly getting use to the heat and traffic, the drive from the airport to northern Manila took about the same time as the flight from Wellington to Sydney, about 3 hours 

Went for a walk around the neighbourhood this morning before it got too hot, only 30 degrees by 9am

[Techno]

It almost felt like 30 degrees here last night....(But not Centigrade.)
Cheers - Phil

[paulr]

Arrived back safely from Manila yesterday afternoon and have been busy with domestic chores and trying to adjust my body clock

Might get to do some work on the buildings later today or maybe tomorrow

[Techno]

I absolutely loathe my body clock getting 'out of sync'.
(For me, this only occurs twice a year when the clocks 'change'...Not through travel to a different time zone.  )
Cheers - Phil

[fsn]

What? Am I going to have to say it?

Am I?

Really?   OK.

"Surely, Techno, coming in to England from Wales means travelling from one time zone to another? From 1953 to 2015?"



There. I've done it. Are you all happy now?   

[Rob]

22 minutes? 

Surely not such a hardship. 

[Steve J]

Very good Rob

[Lord Kermit of Birkenhead]

"Surely, Techno, coming in to England from Wales means travelling from one time zone to another? From 1953 to 2015?"

WRONG (yet again) - from c18th to c21st

IanS