South American Wars of Independence Project
John has moved back to Australia.
John maybe be moving back to Chile for a few years or more later this year (Feb 2018)
John McI in Chile has been working on the forces involved in South American independence wars in the early 19th century.
John will write more about this soon.
The royalists took me 14
months.
Now I have my scenery, the rules
should keep me busy for a week or two and then I can have a
game.
When I get back to painting, there
are 6 under-strength Chilean Bns with supporting cavalry and artillery and three over-strength royalist Bns from Peru in a sort of orangey off white,
also with cavalry and artillery.
By the time that lot is done, I
should be doing a campaign.
I use a pair of cheap
4x glasses but haven’t worked out how to stop enlarging the brush by 4.
I will write up some
text in the next week or two.
Planning my first game to try out the rules on
the Independence day long weekend (when else) in 3 weeks
time.
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| No. 1 |
Painting table at the old flat with Argie line, which I later finished. (No.9)
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| No. 2 |
Not much of an army,
San Martin invaded/liberated Chile with 4Bn inf, 6 sqn cav, 2 Bty
Arty and enough guns for one more.
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| No. 3 |
My first unit March
’09, took me 6 months to paint – Cazadores de los Andes with some slightly painted horse grenadiers on the
same table, a bit overexposed
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| No. 4 |
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| No. 5 |
Another of the cazadores, not so
washed out.
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| No. 6 |
A busy time, but I got some painting
done in early 2011.
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| No. 7 |
A busy time, but I got some painting
done in early 2011.
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| No. 8 |
Painting table at the old flat with Argie line, which I later finished.
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| No. 9 |
The mineral industry slowed, and I
sped up, partly because I was learning how to paint these little
buggers.
Talaveras, a light infantry unit
raised from Peninsular veterans – it is questionable if they ever fought in this
uniform.
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| No. 10 |
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| No. 11 |
Regimento
Valdivia
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| No. 12 |
Royalist Regimento
Chiloe
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| No. 13 |
Regimiento Chillan, the
Royalists are so much nicer than the Independistas.
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| No. 14 |
Concepcion in their
light infantry role
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| No. 15 |
Husares de la
Concordia
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| No. 16 |
Husares de la
Concordia
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| No. 17 |
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| No. 18 |
Finished Granaderos a caballo with
base coat done on the 7th Line.
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| No. 19 |
2011 Cazadores a caballo 3 months after some infantry
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| No. 20 |
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| No. 21 |
Granaderos a Cabello again, but this
time the rear rank have a nice red pelisse
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| No. 22 |
I do the frogging with a soft white
pencil, drag the edge down the detail and it sort of grates the
lead.
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| No. 23 |
And the staff, San Martin on a white
horse, O’Higgins with the red hair, and Las Heras dragging his feet, plus a few
aides
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| No. 24 |
Carabineros de Abascal – the blue
may be a little on the pale side, this lot took a
month.
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| No. 25 |
Royalist artillery – natural timber
which is this reddy colour and varnished with sea lion
oil
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| No. 26 |
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| No. 27 |
The guns could have been any of the following colours:
- Cobalt Blue – no cobalt in Argentina
- Natural wood – splits under the sun
- Whitewashed +/- lampblack – if I want grey I will edo early WWII huns
- Ochre, there are enormous supplies around Mendoza.
Later I added another gun and a howitzer.
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| No. 28 |
The next four pictures. The damn argies took 4 years, a year
longer than San Martin took to train them – here they are ready to cross the
Andes.
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No. 29
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| No. 30 |
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| No. 31 |
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| No. 32 |
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