Two years ago my megalomaniac mate Postie bought some of the then new Dixon figures for the Battle of Sedgemoor. As I’m a hard up mug with lots of little BRATS to feed, (all my fault, I know), I agreed to paint up his figures, for a large amount of dosh & a packet of winegums. The job I was in at the time allowed me lots of time to paint, so after around 5 months I’d finished all the figures. I enjoyed painting them, when i first saw them unpainted they didn’t look much of a figure, pretty boring actually, but I was quite surprised and pleased with the final result.
Below are a few photo’s of the some of the Sedgemoor figures. Hope you like them, all comments welcome!!!
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| Royal Regt of Guards & The Kings Footguards |
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| A Rebel Gun |
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Dumbarton's Foot
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Col Bovet's Blue regt
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| The Earl of Oxford's Horse |
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| Royal Artillery |
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The Royal Dragoons
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| Royal Dragoons |
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| Oxford's Horse |
Monmouth recieving some bad news
Dumbarton's
The Guards
Rebel gun
The Blue Regt
Royal Dragoons
Churchill & Oglethorpe discuss the plan.
Rebel Lifeguard of Horse
They look good...lotta color, just like eye candy,
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Lovely job - can I ask what the rules are you use and what base sizes too,
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Sorry for the rather late reply, I believe the infantry are on 20x20 per figure and the cavalry are on 50 x 60 double bases. They were based up for no rules in particular, but are as I speak being re-based for Beneath the Lily Banners.
ReplyDeleteAh thanks for that. Basing is always a torture. I have bought some Forlorn Hope rules. Although they are ECW rules, they come recommended and also feature the old fashioned system of casualty removal by indvidual figures which I find more fun (because I'm old fashioned - happy days when everything was steam).Any who, I have yet to find the best set of rules before I go about basing my figures. What rules have you tried so far?
ReplyDeleteOoops, by the way - do you know if Monmouth's Army included dragoons?
ReplyDeleteWe've never played with the figures....yet! I've got to paint up a few more figures, to make up some of the units to meet the numbers in Beneath the Lily Banners. Take a look at some of my battle reports for BLB2, they are a very different set of rules for a very different in-between period and fit the glove perfectly. I don't think Monmouth's army had dragoons, I know they had a small Lifeguard troop and a few other troops totalling around 600 men, all poorly trained!!
ReplyDeleteThanks for that. I'm going to try out Black Powder and I'll let you know how I get on. I am agonising what ration pike to musket would have been for the Rebellion period - any ideas?
ReplyDeleteIn normal line units they had 13 companies, one of these was a grenadier company. The 12 normal companies were mixed musketeers and pikemen at a ratio of approx 2:1. Hope this helps!!!
DeleteMassively thanks. I have also raised a troop of Monmouths Life Guard of Horse which I think may well have worn the purple coats he took over with him? Perhaps these were intended for his foote regiment...who knows?
ReplyDeleteNo-one knows for sure, but what I've read says the red coats faced purple were probably given to the Rebel Blue regt. If you look again at the Blue regt in the pics above you'll see some of the figures are painted up with the red coat cuffed/lined in purple.
DeleteI have just got a copy of Scott's work on the Rebellion which is very helpful. I have bought some Front Rank artillery pieces which are very nice but seem a little too late for the period being 18th century and I can't find a source that informs us on the canon used for the rebellion period.
ReplyDeletePerhaps ECW pieces would be more appropriate? I was admiring your cannon and was wondering what make they are?
I was wondering what your source was for the purple faced coats were given to the Blue regt?
The guns we used are a mixture of Foundry ECW and Dixons Sedgemoor range.
DeleteThe source for the purple faced coats comes from the book "From Pike and Shott 1685 to 1720" by Charles Stewart Grant. It quotes
" It was reported that "a good number of campaign coats red faced purple" were bought with Monmouth. It is not clear to which regt these went. It is apparently said that the Blue regt were dressed in red so they may have been the recipients"
It would seem through other posts that the Front Rank cannons are probably Valliere guns which would place them in the 1730's rather than our period, what do you think?
ReplyDeleteI've had a quick look at Front Ranks' website, it seems they don't sell artillery with the 1685-1700 range and advise customers to buy from their 18th century range. I'm no expert but that does seem a little late for Sedgmoor???
DeleteThanks as ever. Yes indeed their guns do look a bit on the late side. I have north Star and Front Rank 28s and was hoping to combine them with Dixons 25s since I heard they are bigger.
ReplyDeleteTake a look at the Bicorne range of ECW artillery. Postie who owns the figures says they're the best range for the various calibres needed.
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Ah thanks for the tip I shall certainly look them up.
ReplyDeleteI was watching the most recent BBC serial of Lorna Doone on U tube which is superb for costumery. I noticed some of the militia are subtly dressed in grey coats with light blue cuffs and breaches.
It's probably that some militia did wear grey and I painted a few with Citadel Stone with a sepia wash together with cuffs and breaches in Model Color Pastel Blue. The effect is tasteful indeed, although perhaps a little unauthentic with regard to the Pastel Blue?
I may do the militia cavalry in the same way.
With Monmouth's militia you can paint them any colours you want as they mainly wore civilian dress, pastel blue would be fine I would have thought, and it looks nice. If your on facebook, join up to this page below, its called Monmouth Rebellion 1685. Lots of info, should be right up your street!!
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Ok will take a look - thanks again!
ReplyDeleteHi Ray, I was returning to your blog and noticed the Monmouth Rebels, can you remember what make they are, could they be Dixons by any chance?
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