Last of the Crimean British
/I needed one more infantry unit to finish off my Crimean Brits and, to give me two symmetrical brigades, it needed to be a unit of Guards. Scots Guards to be exact.
I fancied a change from the Rank & File figures that I had been using, so went with the Eureka 18mm range. These would be a little taller than the rest of the army but, hey, I wanted a battalion of imposing Scotsmen so that would do the trick nicely.
The Eureka figures are exquisite: my crude painting certainly does not do them justice. My only complaint would be that the bayonets are extremely thin and I’m quite worried that they will break easily…not that any broke off in the painting process, but then the figures haven’t been handled on the wargames table yet.
The tartan effect on the kilts was achieved by painting the kilt blue then painting a green cross-hatching on it. Again, somewhat crude, but all you need for the three foot rule.
I could have painted these better, but they match the style of the rest of the army. I would also have like to homogenise the poses a bit more, but the Eureka UK distributor was a bit low on stock and I wanted to get these done before the end of the year.
These figures actually now take me to a new personal best score on the TFL Painting Challenge: 2,035 points as opposed to my previous 2,004 points achieved in 2019. I would like to get up to 2,050 before the end of this year’s challenge, but with only eight days to go, some of which are Christmas, it might be a bit tricky!
