28mm Perry 7th Hussars WIP +Half Done

I just finished the 2nd stand of 4 for this unit, so I have 6 horses and riders left to paint.  This group has shako's this time.  I took the advise from others and stopped painting(or trying) eyes.  If you are lousy at painting them like I am, they will detract from what would otherwise be good work.  So here they are...

Thanks for stopping by... cheers

28mm Perry 7th Hussars WIP +3

I just got these to this point, I can only think of the basing that needs to be done, what say you?  Rodger and Ray I decided that what you said in WIP+2  is correct I was being hard on myself... well not really but I took you guys word for it... ;)  Anyway here they are.  Oh yea I am horrible at painting eyes...

Really do you think these are okay?  I can't get past the layering or lack of the appearance of it on the Jackets and pants...

28mm Perry 7th Hussars WIP +2

Ok 2nd update, I have done some detail work and cleaned up the painting over all as well as Painting the horses.  I still need to paint the details on the horses etc. and the riders still need more work.  I am haivng issues with my painting in general.  I have a base coat and a highlight on the major area's eg the red and green area's although you would be hard pressed to see it.  I am thinking of rebase coating those area's like paints and shirt/jacket and then trying highlighting them again.  If this doesn't work "hi ho a merry go a dipping I will go."... I just cant figure out why I cant get this right! grrr!!! very frustrating!

28mm Perry 7th Hussars WIP +1

Okay so I have had these guys for sometime in the collection along with 3 more boxes.  Anyway I decided to do a little 28mm stuff and decided on these guys.  They are being painted up as the 7th Hussars around 1812ish.  I really like the miniatures, they have very good detail for plastic and go together well, although I would prefer to not have the additional time of building them as well as painting them, time is precious.  This is the first group of 3 of which the total units size is 12.  They will be based up for Lasalle, I will also be able to use them for GdB.  let me know what you think so far...

Misc. Stuff that needed to be finished and based

  Well I had several units that needed to be finished and based. Definitely nothing spectacular but I figured I would post them none the less.

First up are some not so fun to paint Essex British Light Dragoons, Short review in a word "lacking".  They were pretty plain to say the least, I am trying to get my point across about these miniatures without talking them down.  Anyway I decided to do a little xtra basing on them to liven them up a bit. They are painted as the British 9th Light Dragoons. I do have a question, does British Cavalry not fly a Nationa flags or something?  Every picture I could find of British Cav the were not flying the Union Jack.  Anyway so here they are... Not much mind you... And add in my "great" camera work and we have Craptastic stuff here...

Next up will be some Minifig/Essex mixed 95th Rifles set up as SK3 skirmish bases for Lasalle and the as an Irregular unit.  Same as above...

 Next I did a bunch of skirmish bases for my British units in Lasalle. There are 7 units worth of SK2 skirmishers.  These were Essex and the above statement applies.  I guess I am spoiled by AB or even Old Glory.  So here are some pics of them, again nothing to write home about trying to get them done and based for games.

Lastly some Command bases for my French army, they are a mixtures of AB and Old Glory. I am thinking they could use some more work and at some point I will.  Just wanted to get them table ready and worry about contest type work later...

Okay so that's it for now, I am going to do some 28mm work next, some Perry Hussar's.  Side note I just saw that the Perry's are just about to release some British Hussars, these I can not wait for!!!  Oh well that's it for now...

Cheers...

AB 15mm 4th French Legere

Well as promised I just finished these guys up along with a Scruby commission I was doing.  Anyway I decided to designate them as the 4th Legere which fought at Ligny and Waterloo as well as other battles.  They were typical AB and I loved painting them.  I should order another 3-4 units at some point.  I am not sure if the paint scheme I did on them is historically accurate for this unit so if you have any coloring info on that unit, I would love to see it.  I still need to flag the unit but don't have any printed now that I can find, so I will do that later.

Cheers... ;)

Waterloo Casualty

I found this Picture of this original French Carabinier on the web and thought I would share it with you.  He was apparently hit by a cannon ball during the French Heavy Cavalry Charges during Waterloo.  This is amazing, it actually punch through the front and back.  When I saw this I just had to share it with you guys... If you notice there is a little plate near the neck area with "Waterloo 18 June 1815".  I just have to say that had to hurt, or did he feel like a bug just before it hits your wind shield?

Cheers...

22,000 hits!!! and new Nappie painter/player converted

     Hi all I just wanted to thank all that have visited my humble blog and find it of some use.  I also wanted to say how grateful I am for finding the friends I have all over the world via this blog.  Lastly I just went over the 22,000 hit mark today, again thank you.  I would have done this at the 20,000 hit mark but did not see it come and go as I was otherwise occupied.  Anyway thanks again and I am looking forward to the posting new content and the next 22,000 hits... ;)  I wanted to thank the following especially by name and not in any order:

Galpy
Ray Rousel(sp)
Ken
Paul Alba
Saxon Dog
If there are any I missed please forgive and remind me;)


Cheers...


Turns out is was 29,000 hits not 22,000. I was using a hit counter that was not from blogger so it missed like the 6-7,000 hits.  I noticed my Map app that shows bloggers where the hits are coming from does not have nearly enough hits as I added it way later.  So anyway that's that...


Side note:

     One of my gaming group buddies approached me about Napoleonics and I believe has been bitten.  He is going to be making a AB 15-18mm Nappie army, he has already started buying AB's from Eureka and will be painting very quickly I would reckon to bet.  He is a very, very talented painter so if he does not have a blog I may be posting his stuff here.
     Anyway after seeing the Lasalle rules set he is going to get Lasalle, I will try later to get him into GdB or RtE providing I can find a copy of the later. Also we will be doing Lasalle BatReps over the next year after showing him some of the blogs I follow that have posted their own wonderful Lasalle BatReps, notably Galpy from 15mm Paintshack, Trail ape and his site also Paul Alba and his site Napoleonics in Miniature, although his BatReps are for GdB mostly, they are wonderful. I also have GdB so that is a possibility over the next year as well.  SO after seeing my collection, the BatReps etc he is bitten! Anyway thanks again for the visits, the inspiration from your sites etc and great people I have met cheers...

15mm AB French Dragoons the 25th

Well this is my first post back since my rather long break, These guys are like 99% finished with only some touch ups needed, but I figured I would post them as I said I would like last week.  ;)  I did these as I am finishing a commission for a friend of mine in SoCal, he has a real thing for "Old School" Jack Scrubby ACW 30mm Figures.  When I say "Old School" I mean it!  These Scrubby's I am just finishing, I think the molds were originally done in the late 50's or early 60's.  Anyway back to the topic at hand, I wanted to finish up these AB French Dragoons I had as it was the last French Cav unit I had left to paint from my last order to them. I figured I would paint them as the 25th as I did not have any Orange in any of my other French Dragoon units.  This brings my total French Dragoon units to 4, so now I can use them with Lasalle for a Dragoon Brigade.  So without any further ado...

Sorry if the pictures are crap, I am just not a good macro photog...:)  After I finish up the Scrubby commission I will post up some AB French Legere that I got with the same order as the dragoons...

Cheers.

Well I am back... :)

Ok after a bit of a break to do other things I will be posting again very soon.  The first postings will be 15mm a AB French Dragoons unit  and a 15mm AB French Legere unit.  I should be posting these within the week.  I just wanted to say that I am sorry I have been away and I hope that I didn't loose many viewers in my absence.  Thanks for your patience and happy painting...