Thursday 5 September 2019

Mexican Adventure - S Range Belgian Voltigers and Grenadiers

Some time last year I converted a number of S range figure for John Cunningham to put together some figures that a friend of his wanted to try the Mexican Adventure..

Whilst I was in hospital earlier this year a large parcel arrived from John with lots of castings of these figures.  To be honest with what has been going on in my life of late, painting figures has been low on my priorities and starting a whole new period against a time clock of months seems a little mad.  However, I thought the figures deserved to be painted and since they are now available there may be some of you who fancy delving into this colourful period in Mexican/European history.



Here are the first of my efforts. My eyesight seems to be getting worse of late due to a cataract in my left eye and the paintbrush is more like a 'yard broom' so apologises for some of the painting but I hope you get an idea of the figures.  I also managed to wind up one figure short, hence the final stand of three!

 


From the various picture I couldn't decide whether the plume on their hats should be black or green.  I left them black but on reflection I think they should be green - they would also stand out more, so maybe a repaint job!  The officer is usually shown in a black hat as well but for variety I have given him a white one which is also shown in various plates.

The same figure can be used for Belgian Grenadiers just by painting the lace and the band on the hat red.

The website 'The Mexican Adventure or: the Phantom Crown'  http://gisby.info/mindex.htm     has lots of information on uniforms; flags and a history of the conflict.

I also made some Mexican 'irregular infantry' and a lancer in sombrero to add to the opposition.

8 comments:

  1. The Mexican adventure has always intrigued me , all those different troop types and uniforms - wargaming heaven .

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    1. I also did a number of conversions for the French as well as irregular Mexican infantry and cavalry. Glad you liked them.

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  2. I always paint with a broom - much quicker! Lovely figures, as usual.

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    1. Recently it has moved from a broom to a blur and not because I am painting so fast! Got an appointment on Friday 13th!!! to have it assessed hopefully they will be able to correct it quickly.

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  3. Very nice, that flag is intriguing.

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  4. Hi Norm, glad you liked them. The flag comes from the Mexican Adventure website the link is above. The Austrians are shown as having a similar Mexican flag with there own one in the top canton.

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  5. An interesting period, with lots of wargaming potential. The link is excellent too. I had a quick read as I knew very little about this conflict, so thanks for poting that.

    The painting is much better than many figures I have seen done by those with perfect eyesight. I do hope the appointment on the 13th allows your yard broom to become a fine brush once more.

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    1. Hi thanks for posting. If things were different I might build some forces to try this out. If it didn't work out some of the French conversions I have done could drop into my FPW army. You could use some of the figures straight from the CW range, for instances there was an Egyptian battalion in white which the CW Turkish infantry cover nicely. The artillery from the CW would work for both sides and the FPW French Chasseurs would also go straight in. Thanks for good wishes for the 13th.

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