Tom Murrath

BAVARIAN ARMY

Well, let me start at the beginning: I never expected to win! I don’t ever win anything in a competition, and it was almost an hour after the advertisement was placed on TMP when I saw it, and thought: what the hell, I’ll try and surprise, surprise… my luck changed.
Now to quote Peter, I’ll be putting my money where my mouth is, and paint them up.

First, let me state that even I’m into wargaming for 14 years now (not bad for a ‘kid’ of 26), I never, ever painted anything 6mm or smaller. I do own some Warmaster from the boys in Nottingham, but even that is still 10mm, the Epic system never interested me as to small.
For the rest, my main ‘areas’ of interest lie in the excellent GW LotR range, Space Ship combat (BFG, SFB, B5W, etc, etc …), Victorian Adventure Gaming (lovely how you can throw all things together) and the American Civil War.
Never, ever have I started a napoleonics army, I find the uniforms to complex, nor have I dabbled in the DBx series… So I’m a complete starter in this whole enterprise!

So before I started came step 1 of the process: finding a suitable manner of basing! In the end, I decided to roughly follow a ‘mix and match’ of DBx, for which I inquired my fellow gamers at TSA (Tin Soldiers of Antwerp) and Warmaster.
The result will be two strips indeed as an element, but placed in depth rather then width. The reason? Because it looks good, and to be honest, even though it was fun, it still isn’t my ‘period’. The upside is I will start collecting a 6mm army though, but an ACW one, if not only because my wife thinks the little 6’ers are cute ;-).

For painting techniques, I’ve grabbed back to my Warmaster style. Luckily the Bavarians are blue, as is my Middenheim army in that scale. So a black undercoat, a base colour and an outlining of details (I never liked drybrushing, and never will except for furs), and off course hand painted flags.
So armed with my 3x0 and 5x0 brushes and my Coat D’Arms paints, I started the enterprise.
For colour schemes, I followed the included guide with the pack. The infantry each had one of the options (Liebregiment, Karthausen, Maffey and Spillberg), because, well, I couldn’t decide which banner I’d take

The Dragoons there was only one, so that was easy, for the Cuirassiers, I settled on Wolframsdorf, because green avoids an extra coat of white to take the red coloured regiments, and turquoise is a b***h to highlight. At least, that was the plan… and in the end, I did all 4 regiments anyways to add more variation.
Horses where varied in colours just to make it all look a little better, and all men have brown hair except the officers, who wear white (wigs?).

Cheerios

Tom