AZW Artillery.

This unit seems to have taken far longer than any other that I have done so far for this project. I first painted all the crews in one batch, and then painted the guns, pack ponies with handlers and Rockets. I still have some limbers to paint which I will leave till last as I need more British units.

The Crews are a mixture of Black Tree Design, Casting Room Miniatures and Empress.

Some of the figures had some conversion work to them as I decided against mixing the Casting Room and BT figures on the same bases as they are different styles.

Rocket Crews and Rockets are from Black Tree. The ponies and handlers are from Foundry. The ponies packs were scratch built.

Gatling Gun and crew are from Black Tree. I modified the gun a little bit to reduce the width of the axle. I also wanted to reduce the size of the boxes but could not find an alternative in time.

The Guns are from Black Tree which looked really odd to me. I removed about 5mm from the width of the wheel base, cut down the ammo boxes and then added seat backrests and steps. I also used some 9 pounder barrels from my spare Foundry guns. I will use these with my Limbers later on.

The Crews are from Casting Room, I also found these a little odd looking and modified ones face as he looked like an Ogre and reduced some of the hair on others. 

The Command consist of a Mounted Empress Commander with an NCO. I also made an NCO out of one of the Rocket Gunners. I don't know if these will actually be used in games as Command figures but painted them anyway.

Good size comparison 

After painting all the Crews I got to the bit in Ian Knights Zulu Rising about Isandlawana and discovered that the Rocket Crews were just Infantry men! Oh well too late to go back and repaint them. I have also just put away all my figures as I needed my table for a Club evening. I had been testing out a few Mods for Sharp Practice and one gun had just been over-run while the other should be about to let fly at close range on a Zulu Regiment. I had nothing to represent the Rockets so will have to replay this.

Last of the old Sisters

Last two units of my old Sisters Army which have had their bases redone.

More Sisters rebased.

A Heavy weapons section and a Troop section rebased. Nothing fancy really, just a tidy up. 

3rd British 24th Company AZW

My third Company of British Infantry of the 24th consist of all Black Tree figures. I am not very pleased with the Officer as once based with the others he appears to be very bulky in the arms. He is from the Scottish Officers set so I had to remake the cuffs of his jacket.

Sisters rebasing

 Not much to report other than finishing some bases for some of my Sisters Of Battle. I also put some ink on some of the blonder hair and dry brushed a bit of detail here and there just to improve things a bit. I am not going to do a total make over as I really don't have time and kinda like the old paint jobs.

2nd British 24th Company

Finally finished my 2nd unit of British Infantry for AZW. As mentioned in an earlier post I delayed finishing these as I did not like the two static figures in the marching unit. I have now based these two figures as a Command unit and have replaced them with ones from Casting Room. I like the casting room figures as they work well with Black Tree. (well some of them do) There are issues with feet looking like blobs with absolutely no detail on them, and the officers lower tunic was really rough and looked like something had been scraped off just prior to casting. I am not sure what instrument the other figure is using as it looks too big to be a bugle and more like a Trumpet. However they have painted up quite well. I have included a few close up photos so you can see for yourself if you like them. The Chaplain figure is from Black Tree Design.

Edit, looking at the post I have just realised that I did not paint the braid on the Officers Cuffs correctly.