Latest issue of Charge! Johnny Reb III quarterly newletter arrived

The post came the other day and much to my surprise issue #26 is the Johnny Reb III gaming society was amongst my mail.  The surprise was that I did not expect it until early next month.  I had just joined this at the beginning of April at the cost of $20.00 per year for 4 issues.  The main reason I got this was that every issue has between 2-5 scenario's in it amongst other things, for example this issue has the following in it:

Scenario: Little Phil's stand at Chickamauga.
Rules add-on: Random events cards for your scenario's.
Rules discussion: JRIII Artillery revisited.
Scenario: Meade's Pipe Creek Line.
And More...

I felt the scenario's alone over the course of a year were worth the cost.  You figure you will get between 8-20 scenario's in that time, hell that is a scenario book that you would pay $20.00-$40.00USD for anywhere else. it is put out by a name(Scott Mingus) you should recognize, if you are at all involved with ACW gaming.  If you are interested in or play Johnny RebIII ACW rules I would highly recommend getting this!  The link is here >  http://scottmingus.wordpress.com/about/

Get it you will not regret it...

15mm Essex 28th British Line Infantry Regiment

Well, I will apologize upfront for the picture quality, but the macro function on my camera is shit!  Anyway I just finished up painting this unit up, and since some of the people around here, play Lasalle and some play Foundry Napoleon with modified range and move distances and some play AOE.  I decided to make all the rest of my units 8 bases worth, that way I can use 8 for Lasalle and 6 for Napoleon and whatever for the rest.  Also this is the first time I did the "black line" method of painting, leaving some black undercoat between colors. I still need to flock them up but I am waiting for the glue to dry under the mini's as I have ruined more than one brush getting super glue on it.  I really like the results but painting a whole army up like this will take forever!!!  Oh well nothing nice comes easy...

List of Napoleonic era British Line infantry facing colors.

For those that need it, here are I think a complete list of British Line Infantry Regiment facing colors for the Napoleonic war era. Enjoy....

1st Royal's	Blue			50th Reg.	Black
2nd Queen's	Blue			53rd Reg.	Red
3rd Buffs	Buff			54th Reg.	Grass-Green
4th King's Own	Blue			55th Reg.	Dark Green
5th Reg.	Emerald Green			56th Reg.	Purple
6th Reg.	Deep Yellow			57th Reg.	Yellow
7th Royal Fusiliers	Blue			58th Reg.	Black
8th King's Reg.	Blue			59th Reg.	Lily White
9th Reg.	Light Yellow			61st Reg.	Dark Buff
10th Reg.	Bright Yellow			62nd Reg.	Yellowish Buff
11th Reg.	Deep Green			63rd Reg.	Deep Green
12th Reg.	Pale Yellow			64th Reg.	Black
13th Reg.	Philomot Yellow (Brownish)			65th Reg.	White
14th Reg.	Buff			66th Reg.	Emerald Green
15th Reg.	Yellow			67th Reg.	Pale Yellow
16th Reg.	Yellow			69th Reg.	Grey Green
17th Reg.	Greyish-White			70th Reg.	Black
18th Royal Irish	Blue			72nd Highland	Yolk Yellow
19th Reg.	Deep Green			73rd Highland	Dark Green
20th Reg.	Pale Yellow			74th Highland	White
21st RNB Fusiliers	Blue			75th Highland	Bright Yellow
22nd Reg.	Pale Buff			76th Reg.	Red
23rd RW Fusiliers	Blue			77th Reg.	Yellow
24th Reg.	Willow (dark) Green			78th Highland	Buff
25th Reg.	Blue			79th Cameron Highland	Dark Green
26th Reg.	Pale Yellow			80th Reg.	Yellow
27th Reg.	Buff			81st Reg.	Buff
28th Reg.	Bright Yellow			82nd Reg.	Pale Yellow
29th Reg.	Pale Yellow			83rd Reg.	Pale Yellow
30th Reg.	Pale Yellow			84th Reg.	Pale Yellow
31st Reg.	Buff			86th Reg.	Yellow
32nd Reg.	White			87th Reg.	Deep Green
33rd Reg.	Red			88th Reg.	Pale Yellow
34th Reg.	Bright Yellow			89th Reg.	Black
35th Reg.	Orange			90th Reg.	Deep Buff
36th Reg.	Emerald Green			91st Reg.	Bright Yellow
37th Reg.	Pale Yellow			92nd Gordon Highland	Bright Yellow
38th Reg.	Bright Yellow			93rd Sutherland Highland	Lemon Yellow
39th Reg.	Pea Green			94th Reg.	Green?/Blue?-Osprey-W020
40th Reg.	Deep Buff			96th Reg.	Buff
41st Reg.	Red			97th Reg.	Yellow
42nd Royal Highland	Blue			98th Reg.	Pale Buff
44th Reg.				99th Reg.	Pale Yellow
45th Reg.	Grey-Green			100th Reg.	Deep Yellow
46th Reg.	Pale Yellow			101st Reg.	White
47th Reg.	White			102nd Reg.	Yellow
48th Reg.	Buff			103rd Reg.	Pale Buff
49th Reg.	Dark Green			104th Reg.	Lt. Yellow-Buff

Just what I need another time period and scale, this time 28mm ECW

Well I have been wanting to get into painting and playing English Civil War miniatures and games but have been putting it off due to having just too many gaming "iron's in the fire" so to speak, that is until last month's Wargames Illustrated.  The theme for last month was the English Civil War(ECW) and they 4-5 great articles and scenario's that they played and gave historical backgrounds on the ECW.   Anyway I was at my local FLGS yesterday and they had 2 boxes each of Warlord games Parliament and Royalist Infantry sets that I had been looking at for several weeks when I went in.  I also picked up Prince Rupert and The Earl of Essex also from Warlord games.  Next to order will be some Cavalry and Sakers for each as well. Anyway I have been looking rules sets for ECW over for a while as well on the net and after reading reviews on TMP and other sites it finally came down to 2 sets that I would want to try out, the first Rick Priestly's 1644(Ordered) and David Marks "PARLIAMENT, KING or GLORY" English Civil War (ECW) rules(FREE!).  I just downloaded the latter and when I have enough figures acquired and painted up I will give them a go.  Do any of you have a preference for a ECW era rules set?

15mm Essex 42nd Highlanders-finished

I just finished my first British unit, the 42nd Highlanders.  As has already been stated they are Essex figures and while they suffer from the leg shortness problems of some other Essex figures they have very nice detail and are nice to paint.  I still have to finish the bases up but they are mounted on 3/4"x1" metal bases with magnets glued to the bottom so that when transporting them you have them on a metal tray or sheet and they will not slide around.  I still have the 79th highlanders to go but I think I will do some British line regiments before going on to another highland regiment.  Sorry the pics are not better, but I have camera issues... :)

I Just found a link for painting Tartan's

It is a little late but I just found this link on painting tartan's it cover tartans, like the government tartan, the McKenzie tartan, the Gordon tartan, Royal Stewart, Hunting Stewart, Cameron of Erracht, the Leslie and the Douglas, along with other details of the highlanders in general.  Enjoy for those of you that have not seen this before...

 http://www.angelfire.com/tx/ToySoldier/tartan.htm

Here is the link again...

Essex 15mm British Highlanders Update #1

Okay so this is my first attempt at doing a tartan and I was trying to mimic the 42nd Highlanders tartan, I do not think I got it, so I am looking for feed back.  For those of you that have done tartan's what process do you use?  So please let me know what you think.  One last thing my camera is proving to not be very useful even when using the macro function, so I apologize in advance for the pictures not being the best.   These are about the best I can get, I expected more from a Nikon L10, but I guess that is what I get for getting a camera that cost well under $100.00.  I have a job interview today, so if I get this job, I will be buying a new camera soon, something like a Canon Rebel XTi or XSi...  I hope... anyway wish me luck on this interview as well... :)

15mm Essex British Highlanders and some Rifles...

I am starting to paint up some of the new stuff I got the other day and figured I would start with the 1813-1815 British Highlanders I had, the first will be the 42nd and the second unit will be the 79th and then a unit of rifles which will of course be the "sweeps", the 95th Rifles. and lastly I also thought that I would start to paint up some generals for my army and who better to start with than "Old Nosy", Lord Wellington.  So here are the first pictures of them primed up.  I will follow up with later updates for them as I go.  After posting them I saw that they needed more lighting, well they are black, so what difference does it make??? LOL  I will post pictures with better lighting as I go along...

Well here is the lot from the trade I did yesterday and this is not all of it!!!

Ok lads here it is, this is about 90% of the stuff.  It was kind of a hap hazard collection, like the Prussians are from 1806 or there about's and the Brits are mostly from 1814-1815 but then there is a bunch from 1806.  I even found some Russian hussars. It is so much stuff I will never be able to paint it all, but I will try!!! :) I had a lot of unmarked stuff of which the infantry I was able to identify, but the cavalry is some what hopeless!  I must have about 100 packs of Cav from various nations that I just can not figure out, and Essex' website is less than helpful.  Do any of you know anyone that is an Essex Nappie expert?

The picture above is just the British, and don't let this picture fool you it is stacked deep! Below is most of the collection which also included about 1000 ACW miniatures pictured in the top center.

I imagine at some point I will trade some of it off, as I need French Infantry, Artillery and Cavalry especially  Cavalry.  So if you are up for trades PM me and I can get lists out of stuff for you too look at...

New test pieces for my 15mm Napoleonic French Army

While I am waiting to leave to pick up my huge Napoleonic's trade I mentioned earlier I started painting and did these two The first is a base of 4 Old Glory French Line Grenadiers and the second is 15mm Old Glory Gardes d'Honneur based in a pair. Let me know what you think.