Projects in the Pipeline

  Well, here is an update of what I've doing at the moment in terms of wargaming. First up is Fort William Henry/ Fort (insert french name). I am planning to use this for the French and Indian Wargame as Fort William Henry and also as a French fort. To do this, I have come up with the idea of having different flag poles with different flags on them that I can switch around when I want the fort to change ownership. This idea was inspired by these two blogs: http://jayswargamingmadness.blogspot.co.uk/search/label/Fort%20William%20Henry
http://www.shedwars.blogspot.co.uk/2012/10/the-colonels-daughters.html
  The fort I'm building is nowhere near as good as the one on the first blog! I'm afraid I don't have any pictures of the fort at the moment, I will post pictures when it is nearer to completion.
  Some things I do have pictures of though are my Napoleonic figures. The first figures I bought were a set of British and a set of French Infantry from Perry's about three years ago. Since then I've collected the Imperial Guard and Highlander sets from Victrix and the French Hussars from Perry. Most of these figures are still lying in the lead (or plastic) pile. I'm hoping to use these for a Napoleonic wargame using General de Brigade some time in the future and have based the figures according to those rules (or from what I gather as I don't have a copy of the rules- yet!).

The Command stand for the 3rd Foot Guards. My aim is to build up the Guards Brigade as they were at the Battle of Talavera, comprising the 1/1st Foot Guards and the 1/3rd Guards, along with a company of the 5/60th Royal American Rifles.

The Light Company of the 1/1st Guards. The rules suggest (or so I gather) that on a 6 figure unit. each rank of three represents a company. As the Guards had more men than a line regiment though (average regiment was between 500-700 men, the Guards had between 1000-1200) I've decided to make the flank companies larger. In the future, I plan to get more men to make the whole regiment larger.

Rear view of the Light Company. From what I've found, the 1/1st had brownish coloured  Knapsacks (backpacks) with the symbol of their regiment on whilst the 1/3rd has Black Knapsacks with their symbol on.

The Colour of the 9th company. The Guards had (and still have as far as I'm aware) a different system of colours to the rest of the army. Unlike each line regiment, which had a regimental colour and a kings colour, the Guards had a colour for each senior officer (Colonel, Lt Colonel and Major) which were red, and a colour for each company, which had the Union Jack with various symbols. The 1/3rd Guards took the colour of the 9th company (shown above) with them during this time and was their colour at Talavera. 

The Regimental Colour of the 3rd Foot Guards. From their formation in the mid 17th Century until the 1720's they were known as the Scots Guards, hence why the Lion of Scotland is present. in the 1830's, William IV granted them the title of Scots Fusilier Guards, which they have held ever since.

A rear view of the 5/60th Royal Americans. Sorry I don't have a better image of them, the camera has been playing up lately.

  I will try to make more progress on the Napoleonics, but I fear that I will be having to forsake work on them for the French and Indian War figures that I should have coming for Christmas. Anyway, Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!