Imaginations Project. - Summer Reinforcements Challenge completed.

Having successfully completed my challenge of painting up four infantry battalions and six mounted commanders, I took the opportunity to muster all the troops so far built and painted.

Walivia have a squadron of cavalry at the rear, three line regiments of foot, two artillery pieces and of course, two mounted brigadiers.

Karacia have exactly the same make up of units.

Cadesh has only two units of foot so far, a third will be added.

Some shots looking along the ranks.

I would like to eventually have five battalions of line infantry for each nation, this would then allow me to form a combined grenadier battalion of 20 figures, leaving five line battalions, also of 20 figures.

I can then begin to add some fusiliers, guards in bearskins etc.

What you see lined up is the contents of two Marlborough Army starter box sets, with the addition of just one extra cavalry squadron.

Now at a more leisurely pace, the first of three more standard cavalry regiments is well underway. Another unit for Walivia.

Once each nation has two standard cavalry squadrons, they like the infantry, will receive some fancy units, Cuirassiers, mounted grenadiers, possibly lancers too. This is after all, Imagi-Nations.

I will post another update when the final two cavalry squadrons are complete.

Imagi-Nations Project. - Summer Reinforcements Challenge.

The project is progressing very well, mainly due to the Tabletop Commanders Summer Reinforcements Challenge. The challenge runs from the 1st of June until the 31st July, I pledged to complete four regiments of foot and six mounted commanders, in that time.

I did purchase two Marlborough Army starter boxes a while back, I had already completed the cavalry and artillery, plus three regiments of foot, so the boxes were emptying quite quickly. However, with the lovely weather, I could find plenty of other things to do, and the project slipped a little.

My pledge would see the completion of every miniature in the two boxes! Once I started, I soon got into a rhythm and the four units of foot were built, primed and painted in short order, I was on a roll.


Four completed units of foot, however, the regiment in sky blue with red facings, was begun before the start date, it was the final foot regiment in the first box, so I am not counting that as part of the challenge. The other three though, have been painted in the last ten days.

I intend to have a mass basing and flocking session when all the regiments are complete.

The final regiment in the second box, is now well underway. Another battalion for Karacia.

The final part of my pledge is the six mounted commanders, they have now been built, both horses and riders, the latter just loosely sat on their mounts for the time being. I shall prime and paint them on completion of the last foot battalion.

I expect the whole pledge to be completed by the 21st of June, so a total of three weeks. I will probably take a break from the painting for a while, as I would love to put some of these on the table and fight a battle or two, using Pikeman's Lament or One Hour Wargames rules. I think I have earned that reward. I do still have three boxes each of cavalry and foot which I ordered after the box sets, once I knew exactly how my Imagi-Nations project was going to progress. I also have of course, those metal command figures and gun limbers from Front Rank, patiently awaiting their turn on the painting table.

I think that the three boxes of cavalry will be the next priority, and maybe I will increase my pledge to include them. We shall see.

Imagi-Nations. A progress report.

I have completed the third squadron of cavalry to add to my forces. Introducing the unit for Karacia.

The tufts are still wet with PVA and the sword scabbards are still to be added.

A line up of of what I have managed to build and paint since mid March.

 

Karacia.

Cadesh.

Walivia.

This gives me an excellent nucleus to build upon.

I still have three more cavalry and eight more infantry units to build.

They will all be standard line infantry and regular cavalry, the specialist troops will come later.

Imagi-Nations. Second pair of artillery done, work commencing of third.

Cadesh now has its two 8 pound artillery pieces and crew.

Violet uniforms with lemon cuffs.

Also in tricornes, rather than the round hats that come with the kit.

The bases turned out pretty good.

Very happy with these two units.

Basing work started on the two Karacian eight pounders.

The crew are built, primed and now receiving base coat colours.

Imagi-Nations. Two artillery pieces and crew done.

As I still had the sky blue of Walivia on my palette after painting their cavalry, so painted up their two artillery crews.

I went with black cuffs and hat trim.

The bases are a little tight, 60 x 60 mm. I probably should have gone slightly larger.

I still managed to fit everything on, and a little scenic work on the bases too.

The figures were fairly simple to construct, just getting arms and poles to meet and stay in position is always a challenge.

Now this gun line is complete, I shall begin work on the next artillery units, Cadesh and Karacia will also have two 8 pound cannon and crew each.

Imagi-Nations. Walivia's first cavalry squadron.

Completed a unit of cavalry, a bit fiddly but well worth it. Lots of parts in the box, the horse is in five parts and the mounted figures in six. Multiply that by twelve and you have 132 pieces to deal with, a turn off for metal figure buyers for sure.

The set does not include a standard pole, so I used a cut down metal spear. It does however, have a couple of right arms with open hands, for the trumpeter and a standard bearer.

The unit doesn't have a name or designation number yet.

Just a simple base of a few small stones, flock and tufts.

Next up will be the crews for the six artillery pieces I have already built and painted. That will allow me to base them up.

More work done on the Imagi-Nations armies.

I have managed to complete one foot regiment for each of the three nations that will feature in the Imagi-Nations campaign. They all still need flags designing and affixing, but the figures are based in fours on 40 x 40 mm bases and are now flocked.

I also built the six cannon from the two starter boxes, I gave to each to each nation. I went for the 8 pound option rather than 12 pound. I will add the larger calibre at a later date.

Each regiment has 24 figures, one base of each being grenadiers.

I am very pleased with the look so far.

Currently working on the first of six regiments of cavalry.

A box full of reinforcements to add to the two starter box sets. I am going to be busy for quite some time.