Having exhausted both my supply of Eureka Prussians and homemade flags, it is time address both of these outages. To overcome the figure shortage, an order was placed with Old Glory for several bags of the excellent Blue Moon AWI Hessians. As I've noted before, the figures are nicely sculpted and fit well with Eureka's SYW line. As for cost, the Old Glory Army Card brings the cost per figure to less than one half the cost of a similar Eureka figure. With discount, that equates to $0.30 per figure. That is a bargain!
The mustering of the last Prussian regiment coincided with the usage of the last flag from the Prussian flag sheet. All flags for this collection have been pulled from the internet and manipulated in a graphics program and then printed on glossy photo paper. Manipulation is quite easy and requires only a few steps. These steps consist of,
- Capture the image
- Import into graphics program
- Resize
- Copy the image and mirror it
- Bring the obverse and reverse together
- Repeat
The resulting image is quite good for 15mm and rivals the quality of many commercially available flags. In fact, the quality is better than some of the commercial flag sets.
For the latest effort, the flags created are for the following Prussian regiments: 10, 30, 24, 34, 35, 39. In addition to the Prussians, I also created a flag for the Diesbach
Swiss Regiment, two Bavarian Regiments, and one Wurttemberg
flag. A sample of the flagsheet
is below:
With other projects taking priority, it may be awhile before I return to painting SYW Prussians. Having both the figures and flags at hand makes it easy to bring them out of the queue on short notice.
Much activity since my last update so I'll briefly catch up on some of them. I swapped my 15mm Medievals for Jake's 6mm Romans. We each got what we preferred and now, instead of each having two orphaned projects, we each have one complete project. Progress! Jake is finishing up some Roman cavalry and skirmishers to complete the trade.
I placed a resupply of Litko bases including bases for rebasing all of the 6mm figures. Ordered and received (via Scott) a sample order from Old Glory containing a handful packs of Blue Moon FIW French infantry. My plan was to see if these figures would fit in with Eureka's SYW Austrians and Prussians. First, the figures are exquisite and second, the Blue Moon figures fit very well with Eureka's SYW infantry range.
Flags.
I received a package from Body Banners to fill out flags for the ECW project. I picked up colors for a few foote regiments and a number of horse regiments. The Body Banner flags are nice looking and will be a welcome addition for the color-less horse regiments. For cavalry colors, Body Banners includes both 15mm and 25mm flags. I only need the 25mm flags.
Having already created homemade flags for my Austrians and Prussians, I needed SYW flags for both the Bavarians and Wurtemburg regiments. Using the flags from http://www.kronoskaf.com, I was able to create flags for all of these. A few cut, paste, and resizing tasks later, I have flags for the Bavarian Leib Regiment, the Wurtemburg von Roeder Regiment, and the Prussian 8th IR. Flags were needed for the Napoleonic Spanish so I found a suitable flag on the internet and performed the same activities. Now, the eight Spanish foot regiments all have flags! Finally, I had four unflagged British regiments so flags were made for these too. Printed onto glossy photo paper, the clarity is better than my existing flags so I may ploddingly replace all of the flags in the British army.
Saturday's RFnF Game - Iuka.
Austin hosted an ACW game on Saturday with Scott R. and Don making the drive up from the south. Although Scott M. was sidelined with a broken ankle, his troops made the game and the four of us fought out the battle.
With Scott's Rebs reaching the high ground first, Don deployed his Federals in the fields in preparation for the attack.
After a number of furious attacks and counterattacks, the rash Confederates leapt out from their protective terrain and attempted to turn the Federal left. As losses mounted, the Federals began to make headway against the Rebel positions. When the Confederate attacks first stalled and then repulsed, Austin noticed that one of the lead Union regiments was actually supposed to be a part of the reinforcing column. With good-natured cries of "cheat, cheat" and the late hour, the game was called with no clear winner. The regiments under Austin and myself never managed to fire a shot during the game. Iuka would be an interesting scenario to replay.
One of the notable events of the game was one of Don's die rolls landing on top of Scott's troops.
With other projects taking priority, it may be awhile before I return to painting SYW Prussians. Having both the figures and flags at hand makes it easy to bring them out of the queue on short notice.
