More Iberians and the start of a new project

So I finally managed to paint up the last of my Punic war figures, namely the Iberians. These are all 3d prints from Cromarty forge. They are a second unit of Scutari, some Caetrati skirmishers and a third unit of light cavalry. My only issue is with the Scutari, while basing the figures they got caught on my clothing before falling to the floor. Though minor damage I will need to replace a couple of spears on one of the bases. 

It is great to get these done and cross off another project as complete. Now to get in a few more games of Midgard and hopefully a practice run of Zama.

With finishing one project, time to start another. This one will be a bit of a slow burner as I aim to get enough figures done for a game before gradually adding to the collection. The Project is the Pony / Plains War, Native Americans against the US army. The idea will be to use Fistful of Lead bigger battles as most at the club are familiar with the rules and gave a good fun game, very Hollywood like which suits me. I did look at the Pony War rules, but they require what seems like thousands of native Americans and a lot of table space. I just don't have the space to store such numbers or paint that many figures.

The initial plan is to put together about 4 companies of US cavalry, supported by 3 or 4 companies of US infantry with a few Crow scouts and some civilians. The US cavalry will all need dismounted figures, so keeping each company to 10 figures. Scouts and civilians will be smaller units. I'll also need various wagons and pack mules as I intend the games to be scenario driven. Thankfully I already have a number of buildings from my ACW collection that can be used for settlers cabin's.

Now facing these I'll need initially about 40 or 50 mounted and 20 to 30  foot Native Americans, I can always recycle these during games as I build them up. So plenty of orders have gone in. Thankfully I already had some figures I picked up a couple of years ago, enough to make a start, a couple of units of US Cavalry and enough Native Americans for 15 bases of mounted and 10 bases of infantry. They are a mix of Peter Pig, Tabletop and Hovels. So far they all seem to mix well together.

So on order, I have a third unit of US Cavalry, a couple of mounted commanders, a supply wagon and Crow scouts from Peter Pig. From Friekorps I ordered some US infantry, another supply wagon. From Tabletop some extra civilians and lastly from Hovels a few extra mounted Native Americans, some villagers and tepees.

To get the project off the ground I completed two companies of dismounted US cavalry from Peter Pig. I have guidons on order to add later.

 I did paint up 6 Native Americans as a bit of a test, just waiting for some bases to get them completed.

Now I'll just wait and see if 'blogger' is playing up again. The last post from 2 days ago seems to have been delayed or not showing on feeds. Significantly down on views and comments. Fingers crossed this one goes through smoothly.