A bottle of rum - Neptuno

 Neptuno is a third rate ship, this is not a comment from a sailor on trip advisor. It was technically a third rate. Again JJs Wargames blog will explain all. Again I tried following all of the advice from Mr Jones and was pretty pleased with the result. Still no ratlines or anchors, oops! I might write a post of the high and lows of loom ratlines at some point. 

A bottle of rum - Santa Ana

Time for a diversion across the seas. I have been following JJ’s. Wargame blog and have always wanted to have a go at some Napoleonic ships. Problem was, I did not have a clue about them. I didn’t know my mizzen mast from my dolphin striker. Luckily Jonathon Jones knows a lot and has very generously shared part of that knowledge on his blog pages, big thank you for that. Warlord Games Black Seas also offer a great scale to get started at 1:700. This really gives some nice proportions. 

First up is the Spanish First Rate Santa Ana. More details on this ship and some really nice pictures can be found on JJ’s webpages. My version is bound to have some mistakes but I was fairly pleased with the result, and very thankful to Jonathan for his excellent guides. Also note, no ratlines have been added. I’m currently working on a small loom and have not quite got the technique yet.

Russian 7th Division

Finished the line regiments for the 7th Division a few months back. This was pretty intense work! It was around 320 figures including the grenadier battalions (still a few figures short on the second grenadier battalion). Frustratingly the camera is making them look much more shiny then they do when I look at them on the tabletop.  

Moscow Regiment

Pskov Regiment

Libau Regiment

Sofia Regiment

Jaegers (more to come)!

Close up, sorry about the thumb

Russian Army Generals

 After using the Boki set for Kutuzov I was left with the AB Kutuzov figure spare. I had also picked up additional command figures that I have been converting from the Prussian sets. I wanted to produce a version of General Fabian Gottlieb Von Sacken. He was a bit round like Kutuzov and the AB figure seemed a good start for conversion. My modelling skills are very limited so I went for the bare head look, apart from a lump of milliput stuck on top of his nogging. 

The end result I thought looked okay. Mostly as it did not rely heavily on my modelling skills, more on the skill of Anthony Barton. Then it was splish splash bosh with the Vallejo’s and voila! 

Now some keen eyed People might say, hang on a minute why is Von Sacken wearing his sash like Kutuzov? It’s on the wrong way round (some might also say it just looks like Kutuzov)! Well, firstly my crafting skills are not good enough to erase the original sash and create a new one. Secondly, the photo was probably taken at a distance and it makes them look similar. Something like that.