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RMD wrote: ↑Sun Mar 09, 2025 5:14 pm .....so my remaining Western Allied cavalry To Do list is:
British 15th Light Dragoon Regiment

Ah, "Emsdorff and Victory!"

The Hanoverian Garde du Corps and Grenadiers are a wonderful combined unit, with their mix of black and grey horses - love them!

DougM, nice work, mate. That's a good kit and you've done the office very well. One year I might start the one I have.

RMD- lovely work, mate.

Cheers Willz!

BaronVonWreckedoften wrote: ↑Sun Mar 09, 2025 7:29 pm

RMD wrote: ↑Sun Mar 09, 2025 5:14 pm .....so my remaining Western Allied cavalry To Do list is:
British 15th Light Dragoon Regiment

Ah, "Emsdorff and Victory!"

The Hanoverian Garde du Corps and Grenadiers are a wonderful combined unit, with their mix of black and grey horses - love them!

Yes indeed! I should add that I'll also be doing the single troop of the 18th Light Dragoons as an escort for Granby, when I do him as an army commander.

I should also confess that the Hanoverian GdC and GaC are rather over-strength... I'll make it up to the French...

Spanner wrote: ↑Sun Mar 09, 2025 8:34 pm RMD- lovely work, mate.

Ta!

Spanner wrote: ↑Sun Mar 09, 2025 8:34 pm DougM, nice work, mate. That's a good kit and you've done the office very well. One year I might start the one I have.

Thanks for that. It's an absolute beauty of a kit, and there's an appeal to something you can do in a week, not the months (err... years?) For a wargames army.

I picked up one 1/48 kit intending it as a game centrepiece, and somehow ended up with another dozen. I'll have to watch out I don't become a modeller instead of a wargamer.

DougM wrote: ↑Mon Mar 10, 2025 8:02 am
I picked up one 1/48 kit intending it as a game centrepiece, and somehow ended up with another dozen. I'll have to watch out I don't become a modeller instead of a wargamer.

You can be both, mate. I used to find that doing a kit sub-assembly helped weaken miniature painting block, or doing a unit of figures would help decrease frustration levels with a cow of a kit. Besides, with the 1/48 kits multiplying in the background it's obvious that you've been assimilated by the Tamiyans, Hasegawans and Airfixians.

Sometimes miniatures techniques can help with modelling, too. This (WNW Sopwith Tripe donk) came out better than I hoped.

Ooh. That's nice. Better than nice. Top job!

I'm steering clear of WW1 stuff because I have no idea how I would even start to rig those things. I'm already terrified of aerial wires on the WW2 stuff...