A background to this project can be found here. And a number of painting guides has been produced, a good start is this one as it contains links to the other ones.

Following on from last weeks update (link here) were we had about a 25% completion we are now well over 60% there, with 26 of the 44 entries sent in and there are many more on the way. The Denswe side is in the “lead” with 15 of the 22 units returned vs the Siarus Army at 11 of 22. However the Siarus miniatures was sent out a week after the Denswe ones so this would be expected.

I said last time the small notes that have come with the models have been fun to read and put a smile on my face (thank you all for these).

A few of the painters has written about their experience on their blogs and here are a few I am currently aware of (let me know if I have missed or forgot any):

https://www.karwansaraypublishers.com/wssblog/6mm-painting-project/

https://collectioncalculator.com/blog/painting-together-in-aid-of-combat-stress

https://andysboncingblog.blogspot.com/2020/07/across-line.html?m=1

https://kingsleypark64.blogspot.com/2020/07/rediscovering-joy-of-six-and-while-im.html

https://hereticalgaming.blogspot.com/2020/06/per-brodens-charity-project-lund-1676.html

https://www.talesfromawargameshed.com/blog/painting-6mm-figures-for-charity-and-fun

http://aleadodyssey.blogspot.com/2020/06/6mm-imaginations-for-charity.html

Thanks all for these!

This weekend I started putting the flags on the infantry and based all the other miniatures that had arrived to date. The flags were designed with Sidney and Mark for their respective Imagi-Nation. We will publish a little booklet supporting the project later that will contain information on all these flags, painting guide etc.

The booklet will also discuss the particulars with the two armies for playing them with the Twilight of the Sun King rules that Nick Dorrell has developed. Nick is one of volunteers doing a units (see the picture below).

The key design philosophy is to create two armies that may look similar in terms of composition on the table but being totally different in terms of play (remember that we orginally based this on two identical starter army sets). The Denswe army has a number of powerful trained charging units, but also an element of more traditional units that are wavering (i.e. lacking loyalty as allies) and an element of raw units (the fanatics) facing a more traditional army as we would expect in a Horse and Musket battle between say 1680 to 1710.  I think the stats and general gist of the army could be easily translated to whatever your rule system of choice is for the period.

Here are a few of the units completed this weekend (we will do a full presentation of all of them once the armies are complete, this is just a random selection).

Someone asked me last time how I add the backgrounds to the pictures, this old blog (link here) will show you the very high tech rig I am using.

And I almost forgot, what about the Siarus management team. Well Sidney tells me they are on their way and damn fine they look too.

/ Hope that was of some interest, Great stuff all around!