You don't get me, I'm part of the Union

With a hell of a shout, it's "Out, brothers, out!" And the rise of the factories [Parliament's] fall.  

To be honest I think ECW clubmen could be found on both sides, and neither.  But these, the latest completed items from my current WiP batch are destined to support the King in four days' time at the Battle of Whalley, 21st April 1643.  

The figures are all Minifigs, with the outer two bases being completed yesterday to bulk out my single clubmen base (the one with the banner), albeit I replaced the leader figure wearing a lobster pot helmet, with a dashing redhead carrying his hat.  I've added some figures with firearms to form rudimentary 'wings' of shot.  I couldn't resist adding a blunderbuss to the mix, and this figure is a Royalist cavalryman cut off at the waist and added to the legs of a clubman.

 

The mêlée weaponry is all scratch built from my bits box as the figures now come with very thin and dainty weaponry that will bend if you so much as look at it.  And, I wanted them to match with the weapons carried by the existing figures.  And here the temptation was to include one carrying a scythe ...

... and a couple carrying clubs, as nod to their identity, this one's dressed like the town's preacher.

Meanwhile, the rest of the WiP batch, various ECW command figures show little progress from the last time they appeared in a post.

In the above, the shepherd shown complete in a previous post, has now acquired a dog (from Warbases) and both are ready for basing.  Also, in sight is the Minifigs lobster-potted figure that was removed from the existing clubmen base.  These won't be ready for the Battle of Whalley game, which will be the next post but hopefully not too long after that. 

Your Carriage Awaits

In the sidelines of the last two posts some of the currnet WiP batch have been completed.  These comprise the ECW Newcastle's coach command vignette, a retouching of Lord George Digby and a shepherd (his sheep are old figures).  

I am pleased with how the coach vignette turned out, with Newcastle alighting to speak to a Whitecoat officer while his servants take the horses away to care for them.  Clearly it's too late in the day to start a battle.

Pleased enough to do a quick light-box session.

The figures and horses are all Hinchliffe, and the Coach is by Minifigs - the paints are all Humbrol enamels.  

I have since ordered some luggage to place on the platform behind the passenger compartment but that can be easily painted and added later.

Sidetracked

Along with an interrupt for the CoC game described in the previous post, my work in progress (WiP) was put on hold while the wife went away to visit friends for a few days.  While that has its downside, it also frees up the kitchen.  As this gives me a 6'x3' table and 4'x6' peninsular it allows me to spread out far more than is possible on my cluttered 2'x2' painting table.

What this means is I can do some terrain work that won't fit on the painting table.  And in this case, it was painting my recent purchase of latex tracks and cobbled town streets with pavements from Early War Miniatures at Partizan.

First, the country tracks and junctions.

The EWM range doesn't include any junctions between 7cm-wide cobbled roads and the dirt tracks so I had to bodge these.  Down the lefthand side are the cobbled roads cut from road T-junctions.  Butted up against two of them are the tracks cut from track T-junctions.  In the middle of the second column is a section of cobbled road with two track sections cut from track T-junctions to make a 'road-track' crossroads.

Some of these featured in my previous, CoC AAR, post.  The posts are out of sequence as I need to do AARs immediately after the game before I forget what happened.

The town streets, including some damaged (bombed/bombarded) sections were simply a paint job.  

The paints used were all acrylics by Vallejo and/or Citadel.