Tuesday 9 June 2020

Jacobite Rebellion 1746 - 10mm Pendraken - British 10th Dragoons and Royal Artillery


This post sees the addition of cavalry and artillery to my British Army of 1746.  All of the models are Pendraken 10mm.

The cavalry are painted as the 10th Dragoons (Cobhams), who were posted on both flanks at Culloden.


 As I'm trying to create the armies in as closes as to 1:10 scale of the actual forces in the Rebellion (without having unsightly figure gaps or massive wastage of figures).  The historical splitting of the Regiment meant that I had to do two things, which I don't normally tend to do.

  • Think in terms of Troops and Squadrons rather than Regiments for the cavalry, and with Cobham's 10th Dragoons in particular.
  • Use enough cavalry to give the feeling of power./numbers that their appearance must have made at Culloden for the Jacobites to send so much of their forceto  face them on their right flank  (I tend to scale back cavalry compared to infantry and in 28mm this can make sense, 10mm gives more options and space for more cavalry)




I was undecided about the basing  even as I was creating it.  Normally I use a base and proceed to fill it with troops.  Unlike 28mm, I have been trying to reduce Regiments to one stand to save moving multiples of bases per turn.  As described above, the need split the 10th  to cover both flanks meant that I didn't have this option.  So I decided to put two Troops on one base (one Squadron).  This meant a small gap between troops.  It looks unusual, but will hopefully grow on me!  The practicality will become more apparant in the game.  I don't have a need for individual cavalry Troops to run about on their own.



The flags came cast on so required some research and painting.  The excellent resource at  www.kronoskaf.com has helped in so many ways with my British Army. 


The larger number of figures used, 30 figures for Cobhams 10th Dragoons, meant that I could use both the Kings and Regimental colours and it wouldn't look 'flag heavy'.




In addition to the cavalry I now have all of the Royal Artillery I require.  Below are 3 pounders with crews.   I'm still unsure what to do about the artillery in the game.  If I was to issue the guns out to scale then I would need just one piece for the whole army.  This looks a bit wrong, especially as guns tended to be placed between infantry Regiments. 


To cover all options, I decided to paint all of the contents of the two packets of guns and crews.  This gives me options for later. So I now have 6 x 3 Pdr guns.






The Royal Artillery also had Coehorn mortars on the battlefield.  These were not reported to have been effective.  The soft boggy ground at Culloden probably minimised the effect of the mortar rounds.  Even so I decided to include them for completeness, even if it might take some pretty good dice throws to get any hits in the game!



I took the opportunity to take photos of the figures with both my Samsung Galaxy camera on the smartphone as well as with my 14 year old Olympus digital camera.   Interestingly both seemed to perform as well as the other so that didn't really help in my experiment. 

I'm doing my very best to stick with this particular Jacobite Rebellion British Army project.  I have so many other interests trying to pull me in different directions.  Last week I purchased one of the Too Fat Lardies Christmas Specials just to get their Boer War rules and some scenarios.  This has proved to be really interesting and given me a lot of ideas.  The rules really are quite a revelation with their mechanics and I am really keen to try them (which means building an army first!).  Still it's all khaki...how long could it take..!

12 comments:

  1. Lovely dragoons and artillery! Yeah khaki spray, wash job done, I can't see you taking that approach to be honest!
    Best Iain

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    1. Thank Iain, I dream of painting Khaki and washing on shading...maybe one day! :-)

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  2. Beautiful and in 10's no less, pretty impressive!

    Cheers
    Kevin

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    1. Hi Kevin, Thank you for kind comment. I have had to take a break from the 10mm figs, they are hard work!
      Best wishes, Jason

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  3. Lovely work on these tiny men!

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    1. Thanks Peter, I'm glad you like them :-)

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  4. Great looking figures and basing, Jason.

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    1. Hi Dean, Thanks, I'm glad you like them. I shall take a look at your page a little later. I haven't done so much with blogging of late. I work during the day from the same home computer during this lockdown, so I tend to switch it off more after work. Best wishes, Jason

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  5. Wonderful units Jason, and splendid colors on the cavalry...

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    1. Hi Phil, Thank you, I am glad you like them. I have more cavalry to paint up soon!

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  6. Really nice work on these tiny cavalry and artillerymen Jason...keep up the good work - looking forward to seeing a table covered in 10mm trrops!

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    1. Thanks rross, I'm not there yet! A few more units and the whole army is done. I have just taken a pause from 10mm for a little while though.. I needed a change!

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