RP No 158 FrenchNYW Chevauleger regt Noailles

It may well be all over but I've not had the time to post my last entry into Curts Challenge,not including the bonus rounds of course!!
For my 11th entry I've gone back to my 15mm Nine Years War French. The regt is another Chevauleger (Horse) regt. Noailles Horse was raised in 1689 and fought at the battles of Fleurs, Namur and Steenkirk and is the only Chevauleger regt dressed in red cuffed red!
I do have a few more to go then I can hang up the 15mm NYW brush for a while at least??????

RP No 155 Knights Templer Casualty

This is my entry into the Casualty bonus round in Curt's Painting Challenge, I hoped I was in with a chance of atop 3 placing with this entry, but looking at the quality of others entries I've no chance. Michael Awdry has stolen the show once again with a simply fantastic entry, its quite sickening really!!!!

Just brilliant stuff!

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My Crusader figure is made by Old Glory and is a 12th Century Crusader. I originally undercoated him and the rest of the pack for last years Challenge, but they never made it to the table. So when I had to pick out a casualty figure to paint up, this was my first thought. I'm quite pleased with how it turned out. I toyed with the idea of painting him as a Knights Hospitaller all in black, but chose a white coated Templar instead, but he could be any Crusader Knight really. The arrows are all homemade and were a right pain to make, especially with these little sausage fingers!!! I found the flag online and thought it added a nice flash of detail and colour to the figure, I tried to glue it in place so it looked like he had just let go of the pole, which can only really be visible in the pic below.

So if you haven't already get on over to Curt's blog here and caste your vote or votes on which figures you think are the best, but you've only got until Saturday night, so you better hurry!!!

RP No 154 25mm WWI British Infantry & I won a prize!

My last entry into the Analogue Painting Challenge finally pulled me up the chart above my seemed to be favoured 19th place. With the 210 points Curt gave me for these figures, I've zoomed all the way up to 11th place!!! Which is believe it or not a damn lot higher than I thought I'd get. I know the challenge isn't finished yet, but I'm now hoping for a top 10 place, which will be tough going, but its what its all about after all!!!

The figures are more WWI British from both Musketeer and Battlehonours ranges. They were painted up for  Matt who's got some rather nice French lined up for me to paint next???

Battlehonours figures

42 figures in all....

And while we're on the subject of WWI,  I've got to say a big thank you to Phyllion. Over on his blog Diary of a Gaming Magpie, I won a prize!!

Unusual for me I know?????

The prize in question was this marvellous book shown on the left, The Forgotten Front 1914-18 The East African Campaign by Ross Anderson.
I've only had a quick flick through at the moment but, Phyllion recently did a great review of the book, so pop over to his blog here and have a read!!

Cheers Phil!!!

RP No 153 NYW French Royal Grammont Dragoons

This unit confused the hell out of me, I couldn't work out why and how there were two different regts of French Dragoons named Listenois, at different times with different uniforms. I could have painted them in the old Listenois uniform of a yellow coat, now how cool would that have looked??

Royal Grammont were raised for the term of 100 years by Charles, Paul of Bauffremont, Marquis of Listenois on 14 September 1673, as the Bauffremont or Listenois Dragons, he died at the battle of Saint François at Entheim on 4 October 1674.
Pierre of Bauffremont, Marquis of Listenois took over the Dragoons on 14 November 1674.
Then came a break from the House of Bauffremont, on 30 August 1685 Jean Ferdinand, Count of Grammont became the Mestre de Camp when they were known as the Royal Grammont Dragoons.
They changed leaders once more in January 1696 when they were led by the Knight of Malta Jean du Mas, Viscount Payzac or Peyssac, (depending on the spelling), the younger brother of the Marquis of Payzac. They were known as the Peyssac Dragoons.
Then the unit came back home when Jacques Antoine of Bauffremont, the Marquis of Listenois became the next Mestre de Camp on 20 May 1699, he was killed the 24th September 1710 during an exit from the city of Aire.
Louis Benigne of Bauffremont, the Marquis of Bauffremont became the next Mestre de Camp later in 1710 and I'll think we'll leave the unit history there......

The Royal Grammont Dragoons earned me 94 points in the 

Analogue Hobbies Painting Challenge

Placing me back up to the dizzy heights of No 19 again!!!

You'd never believe that these are Essex figures would you??

The flag is from Maverick Models.

RP No 152 NYW French Dauphin Dragoons

The Dauphin Dragoons were raised on September 24th 1673 by Marquis de Saveboeuf.

After his death in combat at Consaarbruck in August 1675, King Louis XIV 

gave the regiment to Monseigneur Louis Dauphin of France.

They fought in 3 major battles during the Nine Years War.

Walcourt in 1689, Namur in 1692 and Steenkirke also in 1692.

I'm really struggling trying to find out any info on the French units,so that's it I'm afraid!

The figures are form Essex, bases from Warbases and flags from Maverick Models.

The Dragoons were entered into Curt's Analogue Hobbies Challenge on the 20th January and earned me

70 points putting me back up into 19th place, seems like I just can't get any higher than 19th

Oh well!

RP No151 NYW Wagons - My Secret Santa

Its time for the next Bonus round in Curt's Analogue Painting Challenge. This time its a Vehicle. I was really struggling for ideas, as most of my periods I own and paint don't really involve any vehicles, (and there were no spiders insight??) before Christmas I entered into blogger Ian's Secret Santa Giveaway and was sent these two beauties in the post. Thank You to my Secret Santa, who can be named as Dave D. Were we supposed to tell who we were? I didn't? What a great Secret Santa pressie, he even bought figures from my beloved 15mm Essex, what a star!!!

These will obviously be added into my NYW collection, I deliberately painted them in natural wood colours so they can be used for either side owing to the fact that most wagoneers in the period were civilian contractors. 

The English really lacked resources at the time, mainly because they had to cross the treacherous English channel to resupply their armies, so they hired out contractors. During William III's expedition to Ireland and the following the Flanders campaign, the job of supplying the Anglo/Dutch went to the Dutch Sephardic Jews Antonio Alvarez Machado and Jacob Pereira, who enjoyed the title of Providiteurs-General to the Dutch army.

RP No149 LotR - Gandalf & Saruman

What? More Fantasy figures???

Like the previous Lord of the Rings Sauron figure, these have been sitting unloved and forgotten at the very bottom of my leadpile. Not really sure when I bought them, but it must be at least 10 years ago if not more??

Along with some other figures this was my entry into Curt's Challenge on the 7th January.

There's no prizes for guessing that these are the Games Workshop figures for Gandalf the Grey and 

Saruman the White. 

If I'm gonna be honest, painted up very quickly! 

My nose was beginning to bleed!?!?!?