2011 - A Review

Firstly I'd like to wish you all a Happy and prosperous New Year, to all you Waragmers out there may you all throw 6's a instead of 1's, except if your playing me of course!!


2011 was a great year for me,  I played only 19 games, which was a little disappointing, but I think I did well getting them games fitted in around the Mrs and the 4 brats!
Painting
I had a  very successful year painting in 2011, This year I've been trying to get my Nine Years War project kick started, unfortunately this put my FIW project on hold! But as you'll see by the list below, most of my painting was for other members of the Rejects, mainly the Megalomaniac Postie, and some for Fran's Operation Sealion project.

15mm

Nine Years War

English

O'Farrell's Scots Fuzileers x 21 Link

Generals x 16 Link 1 Link 2 Link 3

Fitzharding's Dragoons x 12 Link

Dismounted Fitzharding's Dragoons x 12
Clifton/Lesley's Foot  x 21 Link
Dutch
Waldeck's Horse x 12 Link
Guard de Voet x 21 Link
Heyden/Ittersom's Horse x 12 Link
Ginkel/Athlone Horse x 12  Link
Danish
Prince George Foot x 18 Link
Artillery Link

All in all 208 figures

FIW

55th Foot x 30 Link

Compagnies Franches de la Marine x 36 Link

Gorham's Rangers x 20
La Sarre x 28

The French Indian Wars took a massive bashing from the NYW and only managed 114 figures

The '45 Rebellion

Highland Cavalry x 12

John Roy Stewert's Lowland Scots x 12
James Moir of Stonywood's Lowland Scots x 12
John Gordon of Avochie's Lowland Scots x 12

These were for Postie to add to his 15mm Culloden period, which I painted years ago. 48 figures

Napoleonic 

French
French Generals x 18 Link
Russian

Dragoons of the Guard x 12 Link

Hussars of the Guard x 12 Link

Empresses Cuirassiers x 12 Link

Achtyka Hussars x 12 Link

Lithuanian Uhlans x 12 Link
Lancers of the Guard x 12

1st Jagers x 16 Link

3rd Jagers x 16

18th Jagers x 16

50th Jagers x 16

Lifeguard Uhlans x 12

Litovski Guard Infantry 3 x 16

Krenenchug Line 2 x 16

Polotsk Line 2 x 16

Ielets Line 2 x 16

Ekatermburg Line 2 x 16

Rylsk Line 2 x 16

Mormansk Line 2 x 16

Revel Line 2 x 16

Krenenchug Line 2 x 16

Russo-German Legion x 16

Russo-German Legion Jagers x 4
Russian Generals x 16 Link
8th Opelchenie x 16
9th Opelchenie x 16

An entire Russian army to go with the one he already had!!

Wurttemberg

Jagers x 16

Light Infantry x 16

Austria

Austrian Generals x 15

British

1st Dragoon Guards x 12

Hompesch Mounted Rifles x 12 Link
Engineers x 36

Prussian

1st Pommarianian Landwehr x 16

2nd Pommarianian Landwehr x 16
Spanish
Pioneers x 12 Link

These fine fellows as you can see took up most of my time as you can imagine, I would have liked to put more pics up of these and may well do so, during 2012.  828 figures

Pirates 

Assorted Pirates x 42 Link

Once again for Mr Postie, for his War of 1812 project, 42 figs

Russo-Japanese War
Russian Infantry x 60
Japanese Infantry x 64
Russian Infantry x 74
Japanese Infantry x 60

Posties newest project, (yes another one!!) 258 figures

Sudan Wars 

Sudanese Cavalry x 12

Sudanese Camalry x 12

Topping up another one of Posties projects, 48 figures

As poor Fran was in a, "I don't want to paint a figure ever again!!!!", frame of mind, (typical Lurker behaviour!!) he asked me to help kick start his Operation Sealion project, which I did. 119 figures

WWII 20mm

German

Officers x 5

BMW Motorbikes and riders x 4 Link

Fallschirmjagers x 77 Link, Link 2
Kreigsmarine x 16 Link
British

Royal Navy Landing Party x  6 Link
MP's and Motorbikes x 7
Generals x 5 Link
2 Mortar Teams x 8
2 HMG teams x 8 
Drivers x 4
Infantry x 45
25mm  

ECW

Col Richard Norton's Horse x 12 (Parl)

Can't believe these are the only 25mm I painted this year. An odd unit Postie had left in his box, for yet another one of his projects, he has a massive ECW army for both sides and we've never gamed with them!! 24 figures

So all in all that makes it 1546 15mm figures, 119 20mm figures and just 24 25mm figures.

So what's new for 2012

I don't plan (he says), for any new periods this year, I'd like to finish my FIW period and finish the rules I'm working for them as well. I've got quite a bit done already, but still want to paint far much more than I really need. 
On to the NYW project, as some of you already now, Richard and myself have now had two games of BLB2, but still need a few more figures to add to the game for a bit of variety. We both concentrated on units for the Flanders side of the Grand Alliance, but with the news of a Irish Campaign scenario book being worked upon at The League of Augsberg HQ, I'll be painting up units for both sides to use in conjunction with the figures that are already painted. I volunteered The Rejects to be test dummies in testing out some scenarios for the book, which I'm very much looking forward too!!!


This year myself and Fran, have been invited by Paul Darnell of Battles in Miniature, to Salute on 21st April and play, "A Raid on the Atlantic Wall by British Commandos", a WW2 skirmish game. Which were very much looking forward too!!! So if you see two fat blokes with glasses, one with ginger hair and the other an Elvis quiff, come and say hello!!!
Also I'm still in negotiations with the other Rejects about us as a group perhaps putting on a game at a show ourselves, I was invited by Leofwine Wargamerson, (surely not his real name, he heh! at least I hope not??), the Chairman of Milton Hundred Wargames Club, to put on a game at their show Broadside, on 10th June. so fingers crossed we may be there!!!!


Lastly I finally finished basing up some figures and sent off some pics to Curt for the Analouge Hobbies Painting Challenge. The French Infantry Regt La Sarre and a model of Fran the Angry Bear. Bothe these will appear on my blog in the coming weeks, but there's a sneak preview below.
I've been extremely busy these past few days, and I'll be sending some more pics off to Curt soon, some FIW casualty markers and some Russian Resistance fighters for Fran's Operation Sealion.


Well that's all folks!!


Ray

La Sarre

Fran, the Angry Bear