Mexican Militia (activos)

I started these chaps before the line unit so they were partially finished, I'd tried to get them like the Old Glory example figures on the website. Although, I didn't quite get the colours the same I'm pleased with the results. The flag is by Battle Flag and I did notice that the eagle faces the other way compared with the line unit flags. Again, as you can see I've based some as skirmishers, although there is no shooting/reloading pose in this set - nor was there any command either! I've done a head swap with a line officer.

Mexican Regular Infantry

I haven't posted for a while as it's taken ages to complete this 36 figure battalion. It's the 11th regiment (I think) by Old Glory 25mm, they are from the Mexican war range of 1846. This period was a few years years after the Alamo as you can probably tell by the conical shako's. I couldn't find much on the web about this period even using google translate to get Mexican web sites!

They are painted up for the Ayton game in early May, they will be followed by 20 cavalry, 2 cannon, another regular line battalion and three militia battalions plus two command bases. The Ayton game is now a regular fixture in my calendar and is a great meetup of some very decent chaps from the WD3 forum. We spend the mornings and afternoons of the weekend gaming and the evenings are filled with excellent food, beer and company.

This years theme is the ACW but of course with it being Ayton a lot of the troops will definitely not just be blues and greys! I wanted something exotic and different so the Mexican army sprang to mind! They are based six figures to a stand but with two stands broken into two skirmish bases.