Hi chaps,
finally got them finished!
(http://i214.photobucket.com/albums/cc94/madlemmey/25th%20Hessian%20Division%201870/DSCF1010.jpg)
(http://i214.photobucket.com/albums/cc94/madlemmey/25th%20Hessian%20Division%201870/DSCF1004.jpg)
(http://i214.photobucket.com/albums/cc94/madlemmey/25th%20Hessian%20Division%201870/DSCF1003.jpg)
A couple of closer ups
(http://i214.photobucket.com/albums/cc94/madlemmey/25th%20Hessian%20Division%201870/DSCF1005.jpg)
(http://i214.photobucket.com/albums/cc94/madlemmey/25th%20Hessian%20Division%201870/DSCF1008.jpg)
Jagers
HRH (didn't notice the flash at the end of his sword until now-D'oh!)
(http://i214.photobucket.com/albums/cc94/madlemmey/25th%20Hessian%20Division%201870/DSCF1007.jpg)
Reiters in dark green look a bit menacing!
(http://i214.photobucket.com/albums/cc94/madlemmey/25th%20Hessian%20Division%201870/DSCF1006.jpg)
(http://i214.photobucket.com/albums/cc94/madlemmey/25th%20Hessian%20Division%201870/DSCF1009.jpg)
Spare artillery from 8th Corps that ended up at Mars-La-Tours
Lemmey,
They look great, flags and all!
Mollinary
These big bases look really good. Do you put the same number of figures on each one, just arranged a bit differently?
Basic number is 27 - 30 to a base, three command figures and 24 -27 line of two (plus) random types, allows many different variables, including battalion formations.
Some units have less, some have more, depends on the unit strengths on the day!
Hessians should have less as they had slightly smaller units, but I like that size!
Very nice ML, very nice 8)
Splendid Lemmey, just a thought, have you ever considered replacing the labels with colour spots? Your base design is so artistic it seems a shame to - IMHO - slightly spoil with paper labels, like I said just my tu'pence worth.
Very nicely done as always Lemmey 8). Maybe a slightly more ornate script would make the labels look nicer and have more of a period feel.
I quite like the labels - for bases representing larger units (battalion+) I think it's good.
I would perhaps have gone for magnetic ones, so that I could swap them round a bit for different battles. But this would probably mean changing flags as well.
I also quite like the labels, and I can see the practicality for big battles. Have you seen the ones done by Grambo on ECW and Napoleonic 6mm bases, on TMP. A real work of art.
Mollinary
:) Oh if I hadn't started the way I did all those ideas would be superb, but I made a decision, now I guess I'm stuck with it! ;D All suggestions gratefully accepted.
If I was starting again, I would change so many things, so would have better fonts, more clarity of size and, yes, maybe even a different way of showing units.
I have seen one of my friends when using 15mm have interchangable command stands...
... and you are a Brigadier and I'm still a Lieutenant, mumble, mumble
Those are GREAT Lemmey ! :-bd :-bd
Top notch Matey !
Cheers - Phil
Just keep posting Cameronian, it soon mounts up!
Leaving feedback in the gallery pages is an easy way of gaining ranks I found, or ask about a flag in the Flintlocks to Maxim section works too! :-[ :P
Funnily enough I find the old flag ploy works for me too!! ;D ;D ;D
Mollinary
Dammit I've had enough of this, I'm awarding myself the brevet rank of Colonel.
Very nice =D>
Quote from: mad lemmey on 30 September 2012, 03:02:52 PM
HRH (didn't notice the flash at the end of his sword until now-D'oh!)
(http://i214.photobucket.com/albums/cc94/madlemmey/25th%20Hessian%20Division%201870/DSCF1007.jpg)
:-\ Bend it to the side, paint it red and pretend it's a cunningly modelled blood splatter from him gutting some poor foot-slogger! :d
Cheers!
Meirion
LIKE.
Thank you.
Lemmey isn't the dirt under his fingernails a little too dark for Hesse ?
(With apologies)
Ah but he's in Lorraine where the earth is a yellow ochre colour! :P
But in August 1870 it was very hot and dry, so surely the grass should be more yellow and brown?...
Mollinary
;D In the uplands it had been wetter, honest! ;)
And I'm not rebasing 6 corps of troops... :P
Well, you could do the labels at the same time. ;)
Oh - and didn't he have a beard?
Mollinary
Probably... Not got a source for him!
Just noticed the circular bases ... how do they work, and for which rule set? I do Volley and Bayonet which your basing seems to represent.
Dave,
The circular bases are casualty markers for Black Powder, (which is flavour of the year at my local club) with unit number and 1,2,3 S (for shaken).
I also have the units on separate data sheets for V&B for their casualties too when I get a game of that in (and that's why every base has the hated labels).