Back to the Napoleonics...

...and a bit of success with the camera! Huzzah! I am quite pleased with the way these look. Having started this whole thing off trying to do Victors IX corps but of course, there are always things getting in the way. Like those Wurttemburgers for a start... Sigh... pointless, but bloody lovely. Anyways, I have been quite on message recently. This is my provisional regiment as per the OOB, made up of bits of the 36th, 51st and 55th rgts. Should they have an eagle and flag? Well no. But there we are. Worse things happen at sea. The figs and flag are by AB. The flag is actually the 11th rgt, but who is going to get close enough to see that. Apart from me... and everybody who picks the command stand up.

I really like the command figs here, but not the basing. I am going to fiddle round with everything... Again... And somehow get the drummer into the front rank. I really like the green imperial livery. Obviously it looks rubbish on here, but in real life it looks much better! I'm not sure imperial livery is correct, but then I'm not that fussed. I like it and until somebody shows me all the drummers jackets from this composite unit, its staying green!
I am a bit worried though to be honest about all this. Firstly (and maybe this is some wierd 6mm thang), my 15mm units just well, don't look like units. This is 24 men (basically 3 packs of AB figs) and they just don't feel like units. I'm going to 36 man units with the Wurttemburg rgts, so maybe I will do the same with the French. They just look a bit small and week. Of course with the new napoleonic plastics, the whole 15/18mm metals are not that fashionable so its not as if anybody will notice if they are 24 fig rgts, 124 or 12.4 per rgt. Although, just how I would do .4 of a fig I don't know.

I will put my next set on a board, rather than the table cloth. Lets try and make an effort eh?

FPW listings done... to do... time...

tick tock tick tock...

F**king hell. Will I ever get anything finished. I have a confirmed date for my mate coming over. I have a sh1t load off stuff to do. Instead of picking up the brush, I've spent my free time watching red vs blue and shouting "bow chikka bow wow"! And talking of bow chikka bow wow, my better half caught me looking at the lovely charms of Anna Semenovich on television again yesterday. Eye... Pencil... Pencil...Eye. Thankyou. See below... Lovely... Lovely... Lovely...

I have made some progress. Everything is based up now and as a minimum, undercoated. Well on the way then. Like nack we are! I've got 17 French bases of infantry done, as I had some kind of cosmic spurt on them, but only 8 Prussians and not a bloody sign of the Bavarians!

The French OOB for our little mini campaign is as follows:

C-in-C experienced

1x12 pdr, 1x4 pdr

Engineer Asset

1st Inf Div. Imposing General (12 inf bases) in 2 brigades made up of:

4 Vet (elite) SK1

4 Vet SK1

4 Vet

1 Light Cav Vet

1x4 pdr, 1 Mit Trained

2nd Inf Div. Confident General (15 inf bases) in 3 brigades made up of:

8 Franc Tireurs Trained SK2

5 Trained

2 Raw
1x4 pdr, 1 Mit Raw

3rd Inf Div. Confused General (8 inf bases) in 2 brigades made up of:
4 Raw

3 Trained SK2

1 Zuave Vet SK2
1x4pdr, 1 Mit Trained

Cav Div. Confident General (3 bases)
2 Heavy Trained Elite1 light Trained
1x4pdr Trained

As you can see its quite a formidable force (if it weren't for the fact that it was French)! I will be getting them finished in time for my friends arrival. Here are the raw infantry of 3rd as a work in progress. As you can see they are coming along. Faces done, main colours done. All the backpacks etc done. What I like about this is that you get 96 figures for under 5 quid. In 28mm you get about 8 figures if you are lucky. I know 6mm isn't everyones beast, but for me I like it. I just wish wish wish Peter Berry would do everything in a range!

This is them at eye level. As you can see, I don't do the dry brushing style. I paint the main colours on direct then do a wash on them. It makes the details stand out enough for me, and on the board you still see the colours. I think dry brushing especially Prussians, in this scale, doesn't give enough detail. Of course, I would be interested in what others think!

The board itself is made up from 2 boxes of kallistra hexagons giving a 6ft by 4ft table, which is good for me in 6mm and of course the only 28mm I have is Arthurian figs so thats fine as well. The river just becomes a stream. Genius! And at 6mm it gives plenty of room. Effectively both sides get a couple of moves in before they get in range. So no doubt more as I keep going with this.