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Saturday, 18 January 2020

First Carlist War Progress

I recently completed another base of Perry Miniatures, Royal Marines, the battalion now has three bases, so a small unit for our game this week.
Inspired by the ones I saw on RogerC's Blog I thought it high time the artillery got some transportation. The limber was sourced from Hinds Figures, the mules from Tiger Miniatures, the mule handler is a Perry Miniatures infantryman painted in artillery distinctions, bases from Warbases of course. I also got from Hinds a limber for the Isabelino horse artillery, the horses I will source from Front Rank Miniatures in due course, in the meantime I have converted a heavy cavalryman to ride one of the limber horses.


A while ago Dave's son Matt kindly gave us some matting, hanging basket material from a garden centre I believe, I have had a piece cut out for a few weeks, with the upcoming War of the Triple Alliance project I thought this would make an excellent area of swampy/flooded ground so set to. I am pretty sure this will also double for marshy ground on the Eastern Front

I will be back later next week with a report on how the First Carlist war action went all being well.

TTFN

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26 comments:

  1. David18 January 2020 at 04:04

    Excellent progress on the FCW project, keep at it. The limber, mules and attendant figure have come out really well. Does the swamp need more drybrushing to tone it down more or is it a photo illusion?

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    1. Phil Robinson18 January 2020 at 11:20

      Thank you kind Sir. Not sure about the terrain, the Mato Grosso appears quite verdant in photos.

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  2. Christopher(aka Axebreaker)18 January 2020 at 05:38

    Wonderful looking pieces Phil! Really like that limber which I always seem to enjoy seeing.

    Christopher

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  3. caveadsum147118 January 2020 at 09:46

    Lovely mule and limber combo!
    Best Iain

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  4. Matt Crump18 January 2020 at 12:44

    Good progress Phil and it definately works as a swamp ! In any period

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  5. Moiterei_198418 January 2020 at 13:44

    Very nice work again! The limber is really cool and something you don’t see all that often on any gaming table. But the true stars here are the Royal Marines, resplendent in their red and blue livery.

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    1. Phil Robinson18 January 2020 at 16:24

      Thank you Nick. Yes indeed limbers are something of an afterthought by most gamers, I suppose folk like to spend on fighting units.

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  6. Matt18 January 2020 at 14:37

    Very, very nice. The Perry's do scrub up well!

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    1. Phil Robinson18 January 2020 at 16:26

      Thank you Matt. Indeed they do, shame about those vent runs really, just cleaned up 54 Triple Alliance figures.

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    2. David19 January 2020 at 00:11

      Careful, the 'Goldfish Gamers' will think that's an army!😉

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    3. Phil Robinson19 January 2020 at 00:40

      At least six figures short that ;~)

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  7. Bluewillow18 January 2020 at 21:29

    Great progress on the project, love the limber too.

    Cheers
    Matt

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    1. Phil Robinson19 January 2020 at 00:41

      Thank you Matt. More cavalry in progress at the moment.

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  8. George Anderson19 January 2020 at 06:41

    Nice stuff Phil, I do like that swamp, tutorial?

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    1. Phil Robinson19 January 2020 at 10:13

      Thank you George, I will be doing one for Dave and another for myself shortly, I will do one.

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  9. Aly Morrison21 January 2020 at 14:09

    Lovely Toys Phil...
    I do like the marines....

    Watch out that you don’t get bogged down in the Paraguayan War....

    All the best. Aly

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  10. Phil Robinson21 January 2020 at 14:16

    Thank you Aly.

    I saw what you did there, very droll.

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  11. Phil21 January 2020 at 23:08

    Awesome limber, marines and swamp, great post Phil!

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  12. Matt Crump21 January 2020 at 23:45

    Phil have just tried to open your latest blog report the carlist battle report but it is saying it doesn’t exist ? Not sure why might be my system but just so you know 🤔

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    1. Phil Robinson22 January 2020 at 00:51

      Hi Matt, Blogger is being a complete arse as usual, can't complete the blog on any device, you can see as far as I got now.

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  13. Mark Strachan22 January 2020 at 00:04

    Lovely work Phil. I think that the Perry Spanish Napoleonic limbers will mix really well with the Carlist sets. I really like that swamp material...have younthought of showing tutorial?

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    1. Phil Robinson22 January 2020 at 00:54

      Thank you Mark. I will be making more pieces in the near future I will,(Blogger permitting, see above reply) do one then so that I can show each stage.

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