The summer tends to be a bit quieter for me in terms of actual games played and painting done - as I suspect it might be for many others. It seems a shame to spend too much time indoors when the weather is (usually) decent, but with the days cooling down a bit and getting shorter I can start to look forward to some busy winter months immersed in this wonderful hobby.
These two bases of horse artillery were finished at the weekend for my 20mm Napoleonic French army. As usual, the figures are by Newline Designs. I now have at least some representation of all the main army elements for both the French and Prussian collections - horse and foot artillery, line and light infantry, and light and heavy cavalry - but there's still a hefty pile of unpainted lead to get through.
I'm undecided about what to paint next. For gaming purposes, the most useful thing would be to focus on getting some more light cavalry painted, but I'm very tempted to get started on the guard units for the French, of which I now have several on the 'to do' list. Whichever wins out will be hitting the painting table tonight, so I'll hopefully post some more pics to share later in the week.
Besides the 20mm Naps, I've been chipping away at my other collections over the past few months, including another Napoleonic collection, this time in 10mm using Pendraken miniatures. I will get round to doing some posts on these and other things in future posts.
Lovely work as usual Kevin your tempting me into to painting some froggies I'm just on with some landwehr at the moment and some 28mm british cavalry like you say it's a wonderful hobby and a crazy one the question is can I keep away from newlines website and the paypal button or go for it and get some frenchies to add to the mountainous lead pile I already have 😣😣regards jay
ReplyDeleteThanks hxjay. Hope the British cav are coming along well. I know what you mean about the lead addiction. I worked out that I probably have enough 20mm French and Prussians to keep me busy for at least another year (probably two), but it doesn't stop me wanting to add to the pile. Madness really, but there you go. I'm looking forward to adding some units from other nations eventually. I have British and Hanoverians to paint, and would like to build up some Russian allies for the Prussians as well.
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