Leib Garde & Light Dragoons

Not done a great deal recently apart from chill out and watch DVDs (Wild Geese, Magnificent Seven,  In Search of the Dark Ages...), mainly because my angiogram found a magnificent 95-99% blockage! So the wife has wrapped me in cotton wool until I get a stent fitted on Monday. Or two, as another artery is at 75%. I rarely do things by halves. Does explain an awful lot of the health problems I’ve been having this year, but it means I have to put up with my crappy knee for a while longer.

Anyway, my painting therapy (much nicer than Glyceryl spray) has resulted in this:

I’ve also managed to make progress on updating the Warrior British Light Dragoons:

John sent me the updated Heavies today and they have come out rather well; worth all the aggravation they caused me. Thankfully the Lights have been a lot easier because I don’t want anything winding me up at the moment!

Württemberg IR#1 Prinz Paul: finished!

Killing two birds with one stone, here are the completed Wurttembergers showing how the bases look after a good coat of Tamiya yellow green:

Just to add a bit of interest to my French corps formations, I include a unit from one of the smaller client states. I will limit myself to three corps (each of 4 x infantry, 1 x light cavalry, 1 x artillery and 3 x skirmishers), but will be able to represent different formations just by swapping out the allies. 1st Corps is entirely French, though, because I didn’t come up with this idea until last month.... 🙄

Swiss or Nassau up next!

More French Cavalry

Right lads! Now we’re all glossy it’s off to base camp!

Now I have a full box of painted figures it’s time for basing. Not such an onerous task now I just glue on some scatter and plaster it with Tamiya Yellow Green.

French Hussars & Saxon Artillery

Here are the French 4th Hussars in all their glory:

As you can see, despite being a quick blob and poke job, the shabraques meet the arm’s length rule nicely. They will look rather dashing when brigaded with the 1st Hussars.

Note the cottage behind them is one of my Masterplan Model Buildings. These are splendid robust little models made from wood and card that used to be sold in National Trust shops. Sadly out of production, I’ve amassed a large collection and am gradually assembling them to replace all bar a few of my plastic buildings. If you look through old copies of Miniature Wargames you often see them improved by Phil Robinson. I tend to keep mine basic out of the bag, but do paint them because I can’t have bare wooden walls! I may do a dedicated post on them later.

Next up, Saxon Artillery. I love the way the Saxons pimped up their guns with yellow metal. I’ve just used gold, which is near enough!

Not sure why it’s such a dark photo as the light was streaming into the conservatory, but you get the drift. The guns are plastic Esci (now Italeri) French guns but they match Warrior figures and paint up well.