AB 18mm British 7th Hussars and Royal horse artillery limbers plus guns

These are not my best paint jobs as I am rushing them for a Lasalle game this weekend.  First is the British 7th Hussars, these mini's were brilliant with beautiful detail.  I did have a ton of trouble painting the front of the tunics however.  Next are several Royal horse battery limber x1, as well as Regular foot limbers x2.  I have 3 battery's but one 9lbr is not there as the wheels were missing when I got them.  So I will spare you the close ups I am not happy with them but they will pass for now.     
Also please note that I have these mounted on temp bases as the Litko order I placed will be a long time coming.  I think in the future I will cut my own bases.  to wait 6 weeks for them to arrive is a bit much.  Especially when you thought they might get here in 10-14 days. After these guys I still have 2 KGL Cavalry units of 12 each and a 32 man Cacadore unit plus skirmishers to paint before Saturday God willing.  Anyway here they are...   God Bless you all and Happy Thanksgiving for those in the States.  Also it looks like I gave this post a +1 rating on google, I do not know how I did this, but it was inadvertent...sorry

28mm Perry 7th Hussars Done!

Okay so I just finished these guys up, I am fairly happy with how they turned out, I wanted to thank everyone that gave me advise on these it is much appreciated.  Anyway no long preamble  I give you the French 7th Hussars!  I do not know what I will be doing next, but I did just find a bunch of British AB 18mm Nappies in my collection that I had gotten when I was on my "break", so maybe those...

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...