Government Forces at Sherrifmuir 1715

Apologies for this re-tread.  Realised that since the demise of my other blog I didn't have pics of the complete army for my own reference, hence this post.

The Army formed up, just fits on a six foot table as I found out later.

C-in-C The Duke of Argyll.

Lt General Evans, Right Wing Dragoons:

Evans':

Portmore's:

Earl of Rothes' Volunteer Horse:

Maj General Wightman - Centre, The Foot:

Forfar's:

Wightman's:

Shannon's:

Egerton's:

Morrison's:

Orrerey's:

Montagu's:

Clayton's:

Light Artillery:

Lt General Whitham, Left Wing Dragoons:

Kerr's:

Stair's:

Carpenter's:

28mm Highland Jacobites 1715

Long job but got there in the end.  Army now complete as far as horse and first line infantry.  Somehow I don’t think the second line will get added!
Mounted figures are all Minifigs apart from two Hinchliffe, foot figures are in the main from Warrior with some from Hinchliffe and Dixon.
All the ‘tartans’ are my inventions with the flags being appropriate rather than correct.

The whole army.

‘Bobbin’’ John the Earl of Mar, the Jacobite C-in-C;

Commanders; Right Wing , Lt. Gen. Alexander Gordon of Auchintoul (Hinchliffe figures); Master of the Horse Lord Drummond and Left Wing Maj. Gen. George Hamilton.

The horse: in front, Huntly’s and The Earl Marischal’s, behind,  Fife, Perth and Angus.
The clans in the order they were deployed starting from the left.

Stewart of Appin;

Cameron of Locheil;

MacDonald of Glencoe;

Sir John MacLean;

Allan MacDonald of Clan Ranald;

2 Battalions, Breadalbane’s under Campbell of Glenlyon;

Alexander MacDonald of Glengarry with Grants;

Sir Donald MacDonald of Sleat.

Maybe #1

Some sample figures have been accumulating for the past few months - you know how it is, want to start new projects but can't quite make up your mind. Decided to start slapping paint on them in between glue, primer, etc drying on the real projects.

First up are some of George II's finest; War of the Austrian Succession, '45 rebellion, etc., the figures are all 25/28mm from Warrior and the muskets from Irregular:

Pros;
Great prices.
Paint up well, look the part.

Cons;
Supplied muskets are dreadful.
No grenadiers.
Trumpeters not drummers listed for the dragoons.  Some conversion may fix this and provide spare trumpets!
Dragoons' horses are skinny, spavined creatures but are probably not far from the truth.  Once painted not too bad.  Need to dock future tails.

All in all, this project seems a goer with four battalions or so, two regiments and a couple of guns and senior officers.  The opposition is already sorted by my WSS French and 1715 Jacobites.

28mm Scots Infantry 1680s

Had a notion for a project to do armies in 28mm for Bothwell Bridge and Killiecrankie.  After completion of these three battalions, I don’t think I’ll bother; too expensive and too much work.  On the back burner until Pendraken release their new range of LoA 10mm figures, re-examine it then.

So these three are an experiment but will grace the cabinet anyway.

Scots Guards.
Reiver figures (BLB3 Musketeer Battalion with cartridge boxes and pikemen) based with a nod toward ‘Beneath the Lily Banners’ on 60x60 and 60x30 bases.

Unsure whether I like these figures or not, anatomically and detail-wise they are a bit strange in places.  Lots of bang for your buck as they are big.  On the down side, they took ages to clean up as they had large amounts of flash and extraneous metal.  On the plus side, less than a quid each.
The next two are made up from the controversial Wargames Factory WSS infantry.  Entirely different from the Reivers, took no longer to assemble two battalions worth than it did to clean up the Reivers.

The Earl of Angus’s regiment.

60x40 bases. Not much to say really.

Argyll’s Regiment.

Decided to mess about a bit more with this one.  Got bonnets and heads from Warlord Games (not enough bare heads in (WF set) and gave the sergeant a halberd from the spares box (medieval version but what the hey). Now if Warlord would do a sprue of matchlocks…
Overcame the problem of the swords being moulded backwards by cutting off the hilts and gluing the scabbards to appear as if the  hilts were hidden under the coat cuff.  Tried several methods with the swords which were ‘in the clear’.  Bayonets removed from the muskets, couldn’t do anything practical about no bayonet scabbards or plug bayonets on waist belts.

Only after varnishing did I notice that I had screwed up the bases, 60x30 instead of 60x40, what a wally!  That’s what you call close order.
All in all, if I was starting out building WSS armies, I would have no problem using these (especially at £18 for 36 figures and loads of bits to mix and match).