ITLSU 1914 Third Echelon disembarks

[paulr]

You bet me Peter, my animals will hopefully be based tonight

[pierre the shy]

Not a race Paul, but as this is a painting blog and as I have a bit of time today here is a picture of my completed stuff:



The cattle are meant to broadly represent highland breeds (OK I didn't add horns) for future C17 games with Montrose, MacColla and their merry men, though they can be used for other eras equally well. A quick Google search turned up the solid colours that I used, though my daughter asked me why the cows weren't "spotted" black and white

[Womble67]

Looking good

Take care

Andy

[paulr]

 

My research turned up very similar colours

Based on my limited research spotted or belted cows only arrived in the US from about the 1830s

[d_Guy]

Nice Peter. And also concur on the cow coats. Black, brown and brindle (although I was in a hurry and used some plastic N scale Holsteins for a couple of my Irish ventures - now repainted). You have probably got this link already but it  was in one of my reasearch folders:
http://www.bovinebazaar.com/history.htm

Traces origins of many breeds and although brief - it is useful.

Excited about even more folks interested in Montrose in 10mm

PS now looking at 17th West Country sheep 

[pierre the shy]

Glad people like them - I am pleased how the turned out.

A case of great minds thinking alike about the cattle colours? 

Looking at doing Montrose next year DGuy as I have a lot of other stuff to finish first and the gaming budget for 2017 is already committed (Going to have a LOT of ships to paint soon  )

I have bought a PDF copy of Baroque and will be trying a few solo test games over the coming days with some "base units" to understand how they work. I think my gaming group will take to them as Baroque seems to have a fair degree of commonality with V&B and the DBA/M rules series which we use (e.g. I stand = 1/2 or a full "battalion" and they use base widths for movement distances and combats are resolved without using too many different dice).

On to basing more WW1 Artillery, HQ's and support units.     

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

No baa-d thing!

[Techno]

I think all the cows I was standing next to, in the field, when I was comparing how tall these particular ones were, compared to my 6 foot height, were black....I couldn't tell you what breed they were, though....except they were beef cattle.

There were a couple that were quite happy for me to stand right next to them, which made comparing the relative sizes very easy.
I could almost describe them as nosy bastards. You could almost feel the thought processes......"What's this odd two legged thing wandering around with us ?.....Let's go and investigate "

What I would NEVER do, is go into a field where there were cows with young calves.......They almost always get extremely protective of their young.....and I wouldn't fancy getting trampled by half a dozen of those !.....I think I'd get end up as a flattened, bloody smear in the mud. (And dead)

I also wouldn't go in a field with a mature bull either !!

I think you've done a cracking job on those, Peter.

Cheers - Phil

[Leman]

It's moo sic to my ears.

[d_Guy]

Moo-zart?

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

Stop milking it boys, your calf-ing a laugh!

[Chris Pringle]

Oh not, not an-udder Pendraken forum pun-fest ...

[Techno]

 

Nobby's going to be busy tonight !

Cheers - Phil

[Lord Kermit of Birkenhead]

The cow wasn't Mooooning was it ?

[paulr]

I've sorted the first batch of WWI - a German Infantry Regiment

And now they have been put back in a bag

They have been pre-emptied by something more nautical
http://www.pendrakenforum.co.uk/index.php/topic,15393.msg226380.html#msg226380