Something a little bigger – 20mm Les Higgins

I’ve been Tweeting about my progress with these and have finally finished a unit! Towards the end of March is ShedCon 2018 – an event/game to christen the new Shed/Man Cave/Games Room of Essex Boy. To that end six of us will be gathering to play a large 20mm WSS(ish) game using mostly EB’s collection but with some supplemental stuff from Gary Phillips large collection. The last time we played was way back in…2014 at the first Framlingham gathering. An excellent weekend! Just for the game I painted up my ubiquitous Savage Swans in yet another scale and period!

These are altered Les Higgins figures done by EB and christened the ‘Yomper’! And I’m hoping to do another unit with this figure at some point…

Anyway, both EB and Gary have all the figures we need for the game but it seemed highly sensible with Ayton approaching in May that I should actually try and paint up a full brigade! I have one unit of Altefritzenburgers nearly done (using a different figure) and another one or maybe two to do. And unit of Irregular Miniatures dragoons. And a gun and crew. The dragoons needed dismounted versions so used a Les Higgins figure with the horse holder converted by EB. As a gentle start to get myself in the swing following painting all the tiny stuff I started with these…

These form part of what in the mid-C18th are Von Donovan’s Legion but will likely be brigaded with other units in the game as a ‘legion’ as such doesn’t really work in the game (using modified Rank and File rules). So they are started…