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...

Time off from blog for the moment

Hello all, I just wanted to let you know I am "off blog" for a bit as I am doing a Large 40k Grey Knights army for my brother and also some of the "Old School" ACW commissions that I have posted here in the past.  I am not gone, just no time to paint my own stuff  which is what I generally post here.  When I have more time I will be back...


Cheers...

What kind of plane is this and what is so special about it?

 Hey all, I have been trying to get pictures of this plane for months and finally got them today.  Here's the weird part, it is a Radial Engined plane from probably the 50's, it has an extended radome on the front and a pod underneath the right wing root.  It is painted U.S. Navy Haze grey both top and bottom.  My questions are why refit a Koren war era plane with the kit it has on it?  What could it's purpose be?  What kind of plane is it?  I flew in an armed services for my countries military and would like to think I have some knowledge of plane recognition and purpose but this one baffles me, it is NOT a DC-3, DC-6 etc...so pipe up you aviation experts and have a go.  And the last question is why in the hell would you fly this plane daily over the area in which I live?  It almost looks like a Vickers Valetta but the Valetta is too stubby looking to be that plane.

Without further a due here are the pictures. Click on the pictures to get the full size...

Also here is a P2 someone mentioned for comparison the P2 has a midline wing root whereas the plane above has a low mounted wing. Also the tail is not that of a P2, it is completely different.  While they did modify the nose to house the radar or surveillance package it is rather unheard of to modify a structural component such as the tail assembly.  To replace the radome is no big deal as it is just fiberglass.

After further digging I found That the plane in question is a Convair Cv-600 It is a photo recon bird and its owner is restricted, it's purpose is LiDAR imaging among other things. 

Okay so after figuring all this out, here is a bit of trivia, the first "Vomit Comet" NASA used to train the astronauts was the same type of aircraft as this one.  A Convair CV-600... Pretty cool.

2 down and 2 more up on the table

First up, I finished the 12 Perry Dragoons, well at least the 1st 12 this morning and also 32 Victrix French Old Guard.  These were mounted up for GdB so I am hoping by the end of the year to have forces for both Brits and French available to play with, but that is a tall order as these guys take a ton more time to do than the 15mm guys do. So here is what is done...

Victrix Old Guard

Now what is next on the table...

So I have the next 2 units to show you again all Perry, the first is the first 12 of the 1st Cuirassier regt.  They are a work in progress, one thing I am debating on with them and the following unit is whether to clean them up so to speak after doing the "Saxon Dog dip process" specifically the white area's, should I leave them "dirty" eg on campaign or make everything nice and white?  That also goes for the next unit of Perry Heavy cav. the 2nd Regiment of Carabinier.  The Carabinier are still on painting stands so that I can get to everything, currently in these pics the have just been "Saxon Dog dipped", next they will get the hi lights needed, but again I am not sure on the white areas, should I leave them dirty or hi light them to clean them up? Also how do you paint black horses and also black horse harnesses and tack?  I am at a loss for this one...  I tried painting the tack brown on black horses as I did with the Cuirassier but I am not "thrilled" with that solution... So how do you make black harnesses stand out on black horses...

Perry Heavy Cav. 1st Cuirassier

Perry Heavy Cav 2nd Carabinier

Okay so I think that is it for today...let me know what you think and also the question of campaign dirty or clean... Cheers.

WIP 28mm Perry Dragoons

Well I finally went back to my 28mm stuff and started painting them again.  Here is the first unit that I have painted, well partial unit as they are based for GdB so I need 24 or there about for a unit, so here is the first 12.  I am painting them up as the 7th Dragoons as the flag was included in the box.  I am trying to model my army for 1811-1813 or there about's.  I know they changed standards for uniforms all the time for different unit types, so I will try to make them correct for what I can get around here. I still need to flock the bases and do some more touch ups, so anyway I thought I would post them for critique.  Please respond with any changes that I should do as my research materials are slight to say the least. Cheers and thanks in advance...

2 New Warlord Games ECW Parliamentary Infantry units done

Well I finally got this bunch finished when doing 2 more Warlord Games ECW Infantry units.  I painted them at the same time, usually I think the quality suffers a bit when doing that due to numbers, but it looks like I may have gotten away with it. They were painted with the base coating, dipping and high lighting method I have discussed before.  The first unit is an unknown Parliamentary Yellowcoat unit which I used the Warlord Games metal command pack and the second is maybe Tiller's Greencoats which I used the stock plastic command group.  Please forgive me if they are not accurate for said unit/units as I only have 1 ECW book that being Osprey Men-at-Arms #14 and the odd magazine and what limited stuff I can find on the web.  So if you know of units that these could pass for on the Parliamentary side please speak up...  So now I have 1 more Infantry unit to build and paint for the Roundheads and then on to Cavalry, Dragoons and Firelocks as well as some artillery for both sides and I am done, for now ....we all know how that goes...;)  The next week or so I am doing some more Jack Scruby 30mm ACW Commission work so that is what is on the table next...enjoy