Painting the French for Blucher

 Hi!

Just a quick update on where I am with figures and painting.

Since October I have been painting a lot and haven't shown everything. I actually ran out of things I wanted to paint and had to resort to paint things I had no intention of painting, like a box of Italeri Vietnamese. A post for another day. Also for another day some Native Americans for The Silver Bayonet set in the F&IW's

Today is a day for the awaited Heroics & Ros Napoleonics. I have been painting these for almost two weeks off and on. Still plenty to do but currently on the paint table some Fusiliers in bicorns. Grenadiers and Voltigeurs. I have some more of these to start along with 10 packs of cavalry.

I'm expecting to get 11 bases of infantry and 10 of cavalry but we will see how that works out.

You will notice the formations at the top. l'odre mixte and columns of attack. Voltigeurs to be added of course. That makes 60 figures to a base without the Voltigeurs, officers, drums and flags

By the way, I am not expecting to do the Imperial Guard or have Napoleon in my games. Sacrilege I know. I won't be recreating any big battles or 'the usual' refights. It's not my thing. Generic battles is what I like doing. Like not painting to schedule, no pressure to perform!

Fun times ahead!

Thank you for dropping by.

A New Year

 Hi!

And  a Happy New Year to all!

I trust you had a Happy Christmas and New Year celebrations, muted though they might have been.

Having recently retired I am having rather too much time for wargaming and its needs. I find I'm having to order figures to have something to paint, my pile of shame being none existent. Which, in a way, is no bad thing. For example, expecting The Silver Bayonet for a present at Christmas I therefore needed an Occultist/ Arcanist. I ordered some Galloping Major figures for my F&IW themed setting. So, the preacher is a nice model for that. And I also ordered a Shaman from Reaper Miniatures so I can have a Huron/Mohawk force.

Needless to say I also ordered a few more figures for the F&IW also! A little boost for those forces. The figures are not completely finished painting and the bases will need doing. I also have some 6 rangers and 6 Franches de la Marine to paint. One thing, I love using Brass coloured paint for the buttons, realistic or not. And this time I did the muskets metal parts in Brass as well. Speaking of paint, I knocked over one of the bottles of wash twice whilst doing the wash on the figures. Clumsy doesn't cover it. Luckily it onlt went on the table covering so no damage done.

I thought I'd paint a figure for the French, hence the white coat.

My preacher for The Silver Bayonet and F&IW

Today, I saw Grand Manner were doing a special offer on unpainted items and bagged myself a couple of North American tribal village wickup and wigwams.

Before Christmas I boxed some 6mm armies (Assyrian, Hoplite Greek and Hittites along with the To Ur is Human rules to my youngest brother. A bit of downsizing. I am thinking of giving him my 25mm armies but that's a tough decision after all these years.

I still have many armies for the ancients (6 in 6mm & 5 in 25mm), ECW (both sides in 6mm), Napoleonic (2, Austrian and Prussian, in 6mm and 7 bases of French cavalry with infantry to follow, hopefully), Renaissance (2 in 6mm though small in comparison), F&IW (28mm) along with Frostgrave (over 100 figures in 28mm) and Ronin (60 figures in 25mm). Literally, a cast of thousands!  Which is a lot of space to take up. And not including the ever growing scenery. Not to mention all the old and new rules and the various books on wargaming, uniforms and history.

Along with The Silver Bayonet on my very short list of hobby related items hoped for at Christmas  was the game 'Don't Look Back'. It's a horror themed game and looks great. It can be gamed solo or with others. And I bought myself Zombicide. That is quite a few figures to keep me busy.

One last note. I wondered how many posts I had made in 2021 so I counted and it turned out it is the same as the two previous years before it. I thought that very strange as I never tried to match or quantify how many posts I was making. I just posted as I thought fit.

Well, here is to a grand year for all and remember to retreat before your battalions/warbands are massacred. It's the only decent thing to do as a general.