More Medieval and Roman siege artillery

Last week I ventured into my loft for the first time in about eighteen months.

I have recently acquired a number of Rose and Hinton Hunt ACW units and I needed to see what I already had, and put them into the best combinations as units.

I also knew I had a small number of additional painted Rose Napoleonic units which would just need rebasing to my new Rose standard.

Then I had my RJW project, where I needed to find again the ones in the loft I already had painted. Figures are mostly Jacklex with some Stonewall ones thrown in. The bad news was having fairly recently finally tracked down the Stonewall figures on their website (not easy, I promise you) and having taken an inordinate time to paint the 60 or so Japanese infantry I had in the queue ... I found I hd another 60 or so of the blighters undercoated in the loft. So more work on them, then...Still it puts forward the evil day when I have to try to put together the handrails on the two new Japanese field guns I bought a while ago from Mark at Jacklex.

But a collateral benefit was this group of medieval and Roman artillery pieces. I think that is now the ninth Lamming medieval ballista I've found I had, together with some type of mini trebuchet and two Roman scorpios. I've no idea who made these last three items - the scorpios are definitely right bu the "trebuchet" has been assembled from a box of bits including some other frames and a catapult arm. These will all have been odd bits which were included with something else I bought and which I had wanted at the time.

Glad to have (re) discovered them now - I had no idea they were there.

Next post will be the Rose Napoleonics - more of the same as in previous posts, but only one more Old Guard battalion which means the ration of line to Guard has improved a bit.

Then I will do some posts on the Rose and other ACW units once I have done the photographs.

And eventually something about some Hinchliffe System 12 figures and accessories which I have recently acquired -- though that might be on Vintage Wargaming.

So all in all I'm hoping to increase tyhe productivity of my logs a bit in the near future, Good intentions, eh?

Rose 20mm Napoleonic Units BR 1 British private advancing

This figure is I think the same as WG 1 in the 1956 Rose catalogue posted below, and therefore is one of the very earliest commercially produced wargame figures.

In this unit the rank and file are original figures, while the officers and sergeants are reissues. At some point someone has removed the detail of the Belgic shakos on the original figures to represent a (low) version of the earlier Stovepipe shako.

Rose 1956 Catalogue

The pictures show the cover of the Rose Model Soldiers catalogue from Autumn 1956., and the section inside for the two War Game figures, advancing Waterloo English soldier and French Napoleonic Guard. There is no reference to the Wellington figure.

Rose 1966 Autumn Catalogue Supplement

The Autumn 1966 Supplement for the Rose Catalogue contains this listing for the World War 1 figures and British Napoleonic artillerymen

Rose 1965 Catalogue - Wargames

The 1965 Catalogue adds the mounted Napoleonic and the ACW figures to the listings in the 1960 Catalogue. It also includes photos of some of the figures and of the artillery equipment. Rob Young at Garrison has the French Cannon WG 5 in production, it is a nice clean model. I don't know whether the other guns and the limbers will be available in due course, or whether Rob has moulds for these - I will update this post when I find out.

I will add some pictures of Rose units as and when they become available to me.

Rose 1960 Catalogue - 1" High War Game Models

This is the earliest listing I have for the Rose Wargame Figures, from the two part 1960 Catalogue. It is interesting to see they are listed as 1" War Game Figures. The range contains all the Napoleonic foot figures, but none of the mounted. The Duke of Wellington figure already seems to have been discontinued at this time.

Rose 20mm Napoleonic Units FR1 Grenadier advancing

Rose 20mm Napoleonic Units FR8 Fusilier Marching

Rose 20mm Napoleonic Units FR7 French Carabiniers

A pair and a half of Wellingtons

I posted earlier about the very early Rose 20mm figure of the Duke of Wellington. As I have 30 plus of this figure I had wondered what to do with them. As they have very little raised or engraved detail, and their over long pointing arm can be easily animated, and are dressed in long riding coat and boots, they are very adaptable by paint conversion to a range of uses.

The photographs show three Spanish Generals (above), after Bueno - a field marshal, a lieutenant general and a brigadier; and (below) a Polish staff officer (after Knotel), a Spanish infantry colonel, and a mounted Royal Navy Captain to command my Hinton Hunt RN Landing Parties and Marines.

Thge Rose 20mm figures have always seemed pleaingly stylised to me and I think these figures will fill a variety of roles for me in the future.

Rose World War 1 range

First released in 1966 these figures have been very hard to track down, either in metal or in photographs, or in a listing. Rob Young at Garrison is now gettiong close to releasing them. The picture shows (L to R):

French infantry standing to attention, front and rear
British infantry standing and advancing
German infantry standing front and rear, and advancing

Rose 20mm Zulu War range

A small range of well liked figures, Rob Young at Garrison did not have the moulds for these. However, he has now been able to remaster them from some vinbtage figures and they will be avaialable again shortly(I am not sure if this will include AW24 and AW4).

First released in 1973, there were five British infantry figures, including a dead/wounded figure, and five Zulus. I have had some of the loading British for a while - a lovely figure. The Zulus also look good - I particularly like AW23, throwing assegai. Proportioned like plastic figures I imagine they will look very good painbted and en masse. This is maybe particularly good timing for their re-release, given the major push on Colonial sets in plastic by HaT Industrie.

Rose AW20 Zulu running with assegai

Rose AW21 Zulu advancing with assegai held upright

Rose AW22 Zulu running with knobkerry

Rose AW23 Zulu throwing assegai

Rose AW24 Zulu charging with assegai held high

No picture of this figure is available

Rose AW1 Zulu War British Private standing, firing

An unusual firing-while-walking pose, reminiscent of some first generation Garrison Napoleonics, rather than the more normal braced standing firing pose.

Rose AW2 Zulu War British Private standing, loading

Rose AW3 Zulu War British Private kneeling upright, firing