I'm Still Here!

It's been a while but I have not been lazy.  The painting table has been fully occupied and used.  I have painted a load more of 10mm League of Augsburg and finished of the 15mm Kyreane Greek commission.

I also managed to get a wargame in!  It is probably only the second one this year, it was Kings of War, 2nd edition using my 15mm fantasy collection.  I loved the game, my opponent and I were complete newbies to the rules and obviously made some mistakes but we picked it up quite quickly and had a very enjoyable game....I did take some pictures and will post later.  I also took the chance to take more pictures of my 15mm fantasy armies!  I love that scale for fantasy mass battle!

Next post will have pics!

28mm Napoleonic Saxons

Well some of the guys at PAW bought a ton of 28mm Napoleonic at out show in February, to play Black Poewder with.  I liked the look and thought I would give it a go..

Here is my first attempt at doing a Victorix 28mm figure form start to finish.

I was surprised how well the figure went together.  I used liquid plastic cement as apposed to super glue, it was recommended by a friend.

I decided to do something a little different and paint the figures as Saxons.  

I painted the figure in my normal way, base coat, block paint and then Army Painter Dark Tone.  the only concession was the flesh, I used an orange brown with a highlight of light flesh, I think it worked ok with the AP Tone.

Whilst I did enjoy painting the figure I am not sold on the project, typically I have bought about 100 foot figures and 2 artillery pieces lol.  I do think I will be returning to my first idea of doing Russia 1812 using Pendraken 10mm.  I prefer the idea of lots of regiments and hundreds of figures.....I know I am a megalomaniac! LOL

League of Augsburg, more French Infantry

Another French infantry regiment, Regiment Le Reine.  These are from Pendraken's fantastic 10mm range which are just stunning!

Next up for this project will be Dutch Brandenburg Regiment and a Garde Francis for the French.

I still have about 8 foot regiments, 7 horse regiments and about 6 artillery pieces to finish this project.  That is over 400 foot figures alone! lol

Here is a selection of the Battlefront FOW US Infantry that I painted for one of the guys at PAW.  

I used the same painting method as the Russians, coloured primer, this time Army Painter Army Green, then paint the details.  Once dry I simply applied a coat of Army Painter Dark Tone....the final coat is a spray matt varnish.  I spray the varnish on once the basing is complete as it helps hold everything together.

League of Augsburg

 Here is the French Regiment Vermandois, they are in the standard light grey uniform with a little bit of colour.

After my last painting purge I realized I needed more French foot, so I will be painting them up 2 to 1 units in favour of the French over the allies.

FOW US Infantry WIP

A WIP pic of the US Infantry commission, just over 100 figures awaiting shading dip and then the base work!

More to come.

Update

After my rotation at home I back at work in my basement and back on the painting conveyor belt.  Whilst I was home I picked up two more commissions a FOG Kyreane Greek Army and a load of US infantry for FOW.

For my own collection I bought more metal, like I needed more!  Loads of 10mm the remainder of my LoA armies and the start of my Seven Years War armies.  The LoA and the Austrian SYW army were bought from Pendraken, as usual a fantastic service from Leon.  Got everything I wanted, which was great because I never buy by the pack by request exact number of figures.  I know this is a pain by Leon is very helpful!

I did also picked up a large selection of SYW Pendraken from Stuart who runs Colonel Bills.  He is a great guy who I have met on several occasions at the PAW show and he has a wonderful selection of pre loved minis for sale, I highly recommend him! 

Obviously I will post pictures as I paint...