A few more additions...

As mentioned in the previous post, I've been bulking out a few of the units for the Prussians and (to a lesser extent) the French. Nothing entirely new, but it's good to have the units a bit bigger than they were. Here's just a few of them...

Most of these will possibly be added to in the future - particularly the hussars - but for now I'm considering them as done. I still need to add a flag to those hussars though!

Horse artillery - now two bases strong

Aside from adding to the terrain collection, I'll be focusing a bit more on the French for the next little while. They don't have any heavy cavalry yet (apart from some cuirassiers), so I have some dragoons undercoated and ready to do next.

Hussars - 12 figures on 6 bases

All of a sudden it feels like I'm not far off getting both the French and Prussian armies to a point where I can call them finished. Besides the heavy cavalry, I'd like to add some young guard and old guard for the French, a couple of bases of horse artillery, some more light infantry and a few more bases of light cavalry. Both armies could also use one or two more command bases.

Dragoons - 12 figures, but still to be rebased in twos

I'm in no rush to add all of these. I'm enjoying being at the point now where I can paint up units at a more leisurely pace whilst concentrating on building up my terrain and playing a few games games here and there. My mind is always thinking about the next project, of course, but I'm keeping my options open. As far as the 20mm Napoleonics collection goes, besides painting extra French and Prussian units, I can start adding troops from other nations too, but still make use of them on the tabletop as allied contingents. I already have some British and Hanoverians in the lead pile, so I may decide to do those first, but then again I'm also very tempted to paint up some Russians (or maybe Austrians...). Who knows!?

Wargaming is a bit like being at a huge buffet, but it's easy to bit off more than one can chew. I shall endeavour to remain focused, and will undoubtedly fail completely, but still having great fun all the same.

Prussian landwehr (militia) cavalry - finished!

Although I haven't posted a huge amount of painting updates in the past few months, I am still chipping away at the lead pile, adding extra bases to existing units and generally rounding out certain parts of the Prussian and French armies (mostly Prussian though).

The most recent addition was another 6 figures to the Prussian landwehr cavalry, which takes the total to 18 figures and should be enough for most games/scenarios. I also decided to revert back to using two-figure bases (30x30mm) to give more flexibility. Rebasing wasn't as much of a chore as I'd feared. Soaking the MDF for about 24 hours softens it up nicely, and I only had a couple of minor repairs to do in the course of it.

I think I've mentioned this before, but I really do like the figure of the landwehr colonel (picture in the front rank next to the bugler). All in all, very nice minis once again from Newline Designs, with just the right amount of detail for my tastes.

Seeing as the camera is set up today, I'll take some more photos of the other units I've been working on, and upload these soon.

Next up will be to get started on those excellent buildings from Total Battle Miniatures you see in the background. They should look even better once they're painted up.