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The Great War 1914 - 1917

I have, again, done a vignette for Remembrance Day.......

In memory of all those men, women and and children who have lost their lives in conflict around the world..........

The original Black Adder Goes Forth ending for those who have not seen it....

http://youtu.be/vH3-Gt7mgyM

Which also explains the thread title!🤔

Also how they came up with the ending.....

http://youtu.be/hbR9-etyN6I

In Remembrance .....

Especially my Nelson/ Hall family relatives.....

Cpl James Hannah (MM)

20th Bttn (Wearside Pals) Durham Light Infantry

20/485

KIA France 25/03/18

Aged 20

Arras Memorial Bay 8

L/C John Budge

3rd Bttn New Zealand Rifles

25/308

KIA France 29/08/18

Aged 21

CEMETERY NAME
L'Homme Mort British Cemetery, Ecoust-St Mein, Pas-de-Calais, France 
GRAVE REFERENCE II.C.16 

Pvt. David McCallum

Canadian Machine Gun Corps

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KIA France 09/10/18

Aged 19

Highland Cemetery, Le Cateau

IX.C.8

Engine Room Artificer John Hall

Royal Navy (HMS Comus)

M/14767(CH)

Died of Disease 06/04/16

Aged 25

Polmount Churchyard, Stirlingshire D112

L/C John Hall (MM)

10th Bttn Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders

14476

KIA France 09/04/17

Aged 26

Arras memorial bay 9

Pte James Hall 

2nd Bttn Argyll  and Sutherland Highlanders

S/26488

KIA France 23/10/18

Aged 27

Vis-en-Artois Cemetery Panel 10

Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori - it is sweet and right to die for your country.🤕

At the going down of the sun .....

We will remember them.......

Bc1745

Waterloo 200 - La Haie Sainte

Continuing with the Waterloo 200 theme some pictures from the bits I have completed from the Warlord set.......

Nassau Officer using a cooking pot to extinguish the fire in the Great Barn

French Engineers led by  Lieutenant Vieux finally break in the main gate....

Thanks for Looking

Bc1745

Waterloo 200 - Capturing of the Eagle of the 105th Ligne

Been a little while due to life problems and work commitments..... Thought I would show off something with a Waterloo theme.......

Firstly, capture of the Eagle of the 105th Ligne by Captain Clark and Cpl Stiles of the 1st(Royal) Dragoons

Controversy still surrounds the capture of the Eagle and a discussion on this can be found in Adkins, The Waterloo Companion p417 to 418

7th Hussars - 28mm Britannia Miniature WIP

The 7th Hussars were the only French Hussar unit at Waterloo..... Others were detached with other parts of the army. These are the penultimate cavalry figures that I have left to paint for the stand so I started to think about these miniatures today and decided to paint one up as a practice piece.....

Fairly happy with the results so will finish him off tomorrow and then think about doing the rest of the unit

Available from here:

28mm Hussar

Thanks for looking

Chris

28mm SAGA Scots Army - WIP

So have begun the 4 pt starter army I got from Gripping Beast recently. I want this finished in the next couple of weeks so my lad and I can try out the SAGA rules while we are on holiday.... Watch out for the guy with the paisley scarf.......

As the sun rises George Gunn, Am Braisdeach Mor, cheif of clan Gunn's Hearthguard come into view......

The man himself......

The rest of the lads....looking for a scrap.....preferably with any Keith they can get their hands on...

Paisley is so you!

Movement sabots by Warbases......

Next two units of warriors..... Including Mel Gibsons ancestor.....watch this space......

Thanks for looking 

Chris

Two points of view.....28mm Britannia Miniatures

Been a while but finally getting some projects back online......

Made it to Devizes last weekend and met up with Andy......managed to get hold of the rest of the French Cavalry that needs painting and also got the heavies and British square together.....albeit short 4 figures

So here we have the same thing from a couple of different perspectives..... Firstly the British view....

And now the French.......

Under the Emperors Gaze.....

All 28mm figures from Britannia Miniatures

Britannia Miniatures

28mm Guard Lancers next

Thanks for looking

Chris

SAGA 4 Point Viking Army

Well not to shabby for me....

 have completed the Viking Saga army I started a couple of weeks ago.... only 4 points to start off with but I will make it up to 6 pts once my lad and I have got our heads around the rules

Warlord

Hearth Guard

Beserkers

Warriors

Warriors

Beserkers and Warriors

2 Units Warriors 16 figures

Warlord

So now we need a force for them to be pitted against, I have decided to raise a Scots force so have ordered some figures from Gripping Beast.... so watch this space...

Thanks For Looking

Chris

SAGA 28mm Gripping Beast Viking

After a bit of looking round my lad and I decided that we would have a go at SAGA for this summer holiday game....... I had a look at the rules and decided that Vikings and...... Would be the basis of our forces...so I now need to get the two armies painted up before we go away....

We are going to start with two four point armies and then reinforce them once we have grasped the game mechanics.....

So the Viking Army is a GB starter army

1 Warlord

1 unit of 4 Hearth Guard

1 unit of 4 Berserkers

2 units of 8 Warriors

Here are my Beserkers and the start of the Hearth Guard..... Have tried to do a wintery.. Snow starting to melt... Basing effect.....

Beserkers first.....

Hearth Guard

More too follow......

Thanks for looking

Chris

28mm Warbases Celtic Cross

After yesterday's disastrous trip to Phalanx.....van broke down so no stock and no Andy....... I haven't been able to get the horses and next sets of cavalry so I will have to work out with Andy how I am going to get them.....

Anyway before I came away I picked up one or two bits and pieces and when I got home I decided to paint up this 28mm Celtic Cross that Martin and Diane from Warbases had brought down for me.... Don't think it's on their web site yet but if you drop them a line I am sure they will help you out.....great people and great products...

Update.... Diane tells me it is now listed on their website....

A little bit of researched quickly informed me that these crosses were often brightly painted so I thought I would give it a go......

It's a 7 piece kit .....I haven't done the other two pieces of the stepped base and I will definitely be getting a couple more to grace my SAGA games table

This cross will be used for the backdrop of the Viking figure display eventually.

Thanks for looking

Chris

28mm Britannia Miniatures French Napoleonic Currasiers

So the anniversary of the battle of Quatre-Bras is almost upon us so I thought I would do a blitz paint up of some of the Britannia Cuirassiers that I picked up from Andy at Sheffield. Unfortunately I discovered that I can't count either and I am four heavy horse short..... So I will pick them up along with some Lancers and Hussars at Phalanx at the weekend.

The figures are very much in the style of the Carabineers and do give the feeling of big men on big horses......I think I will paint them as the 2nd Regiment...... 

The 2nd Regt fought at both Quatre-Bras and Waterloo

So here are the pictures..... Not the best as I used the ipad...... Figures have been cleaned and under coated with Humbrol black enamal

Thanks for looking

Chris