Great book set on the Napoleonic French

I had finally received the Andre' Jouineau book on the French Hussars 1st-8th Regiments from 1804-1812.  There are at least 8 books in this set that I am aware of, with this book being the 7th, the 8th book covers the French Hussars 9th-14th Regiments, they may also have books that cover infantry but I am not aware of them.  From what I have seen to date these are the BEST books on French Napoleonic Cavalry out there as far as having plates goes anyways.  I will post a couple of pictures below showing the cover and 1 page set to show you what this book as absolutely filled with, when I said filled with, I mean it!  Almost every page has 3-4 plates on it   Excuse me I think I am having a moment...LOL  Anyway these are great books, they cost $22.95 USD here, I do not know if they go for less elsewhere but even at that price they are brilliant!  If you have Napoleonic French Hussars that need painting and want reference material for them, these are a definite must have. UPDATE, I have since discovered that he has done several books on the French Imperial Guard, several campaign books including the battles of Jena and Auerstaedt, given that I am doing Jena Prussians, I see I will have to order that one as well...

Again sorry for the crappy pics, but I am just not that great of a photog and my camera isnt that great either.  So add two crappy things together and well you get crap... ;)

28mm Perry French Hussars have finally arrived!!!

Ok so I just went by my FLGS and found that the Perry French Hussars that I had ordered and paid for sometime ago had finally arrived!!! WOOT!!!  They are Brilliant!!!  There are 4 horse sprues, 1 command sprue, 4 Hussar trooper sprues, 1 base sprue and a beautiful, I mean BEAUTIFUL foldout covering the 1st-14th Regiments, Hussar-guides d' Augereau as well as the Deaths Head Hussars(1792), Jerome Napoleon Hussars and the Gardes d' Honneur 1813-1815!  With all of that you can make 14 Hussars per box including the command.  I got 3 boxes of them, I had ordered 4 but they are just hard to get around here, probably everywhere but the UK. In my opinion this is the best box they have put out to date!  I think for me the French Dragoons they came out with a few months ago would rate a close 2nd!  Anyway here are some pictures of the Sprues, box and that brilliant pamphlet!

Here is the box art

All the sprues in one picture.

The Command Sprue

A couple of the horse sprues.

The Trooper sprue.

And lastly the pamphlet showing all of the Hussar regiments as well as a couple of flags!  They did cost a little more than what I paid per box for the Dragoons, I do not know if this was due to a price increase are they just cost more, but even @ $38.00 they are worth it!

Well My Foundry Romans are going to a new home...

After getting these earlier this yr in a trade I decided that ancients was not were I wanted to be, nor where my gaming is heading right now and while in the states Foundry stuff is darn near unobtainium due to the price, they needed a new home, so I have traded them to a friend of mine in New Zealand.  I am sending them out tomorrow so hopefully he will have them in 6-10 days and the stuff he is sending me will arrive within the same time frame.  Here is the link to my friends blog that I am trading them to, he does fantastic work by the way... :) and Commissions too...

http://kentspainting15mm.blogspot.com/

I will be getting some 10mm Russians, some new and painted AB 15mm napoleonics and some other bits and bobs.  Anyway cheers mate and thanks for the trade, I hope you enjoy the Romans...

Update: Galpy, they have been shipped, you should see them in 6-10 days...Cheers.

15mm AB French Imperial Guard Grenadiers Cmd Stand, first Inf stand and Skirmishers update #2

well here is the latest, I have just about finished these guys and got tired of waiting for the flocking materials I ordered and just used static grass.  I also painted up the Drummer, Eagle bearer and 1 Infantry stand plus the skirmishers. I got the flag from warflags I think it was, but when resized down they got very pixelated!  I have no solution for that, if you guys have tips on using photoshop CS2 and fixing that, I am all ears.  So anyway here they are, let me know what you think... cheers...

15mm AB French Imperial Guard Grenadiers Officer and Skirmishers update #1

Ok so time permitting I have been working on my AB French Imperial Guard Grenadiers.  Here are the mounted officer and the Skirmisher stands that I have been working on.  They are not done yet but are getting close, the one problem I had was I could not find what color to paint the officers sash, so I painted it red, is this correct post 1807?  Please let me know what you think, I think I went a little heavy on the blue light coat, not allowing much of the darker blue underneath from showing, I may redo that part depending on what I hear from everyone.  Cheers...

15mm Old Glory 4th and 5th French Hussars final

I just finished these minus the flocking as I am still waiting on the materials, anyway I was NOT happy with these castings at all! They were very, very rough almost like they were pulled out of the mold before they had cured after pouring. They actually wore out a new fine brush when painting them!  I know that is hard to believe but I got a new brush for these on Wednesday and it is already tip curled and the bristles will no longer come to a point.  Yes I clean my brush's thoroughly and am very careful to draw tips out on a piece of paper towel pulling away from the base of the brush when doing this.  Point is I have never worn a brush out in 4 days on  24 figures!  So either the brush was defective or the mini's are as I said and just poor castings.  Either way here they are, I really do like the color scheme of the 4th Hussars but am not sure of the final look of the 5th.  Anyway here they are, I will have to get some AB French Hussars to see the difference between them...

The French 4th Hussars-above

The French 5th Hussars.  I hope you like them... I do not but oh well...

0ver 1000 unique visitors in the first 3 months since the hit counter was put up.

While I started this blog last yr I never published it until after April of 2010.  I put the hit counters up at that time and pushed it out to google.  Since then I have had over 1000 unique visitors in the first 3 months of "operation".  I think that is pretty good and while my content is not the best yet, I do appreciate you guys all coming over and leaving comments.  I need to get a better camera with a really good macro feature, I am looking at the Olympus Pen, and the Canon EOS Rebel digital.  I have looked at them extensively and funds being available I will purchase one soon.  It will probably be the Olympus Pen, I just love the features and look of that camera, it kind of reminds me of the old Leica film camera's which I have always liked.  Anyway I wanted to thank you all for making this blog what it is and I hope that it only gets better...

Cheers...

15mm OG French 4th Hussars Update #1

Well I had forgotten that I had these guys mounted, primed and ready to paint, but I found them yesterday in my pre-painting storage area I have for mini's that have been cleaned up, mounted, primed and ready for paint.  Anyway I decided to paint these guys up as the 4th French Hussars as I really like that color scheme.  I also have some other French Hussars that are Essex I believe and with the later style cylindrical shako's that  I will be painting up as well. I have not figured out which unit I will make them but I am thinking either the 2nd, the 3rd or the 6th Hussars. They just have their base colors on them with no details so far.  Anyway here are the 4th...

15mm OG French 5th Hussars Update #2

Ok so I have been only able to work on these guys just a little bit, but here they are so far.  I am not sure if this blue is the correct blue for the French 5th Hussars but from what I can tell it looks close.  perhaps one of you chaps know and could tell me if this blue I am using on them is right?  You may notice some other hussars to the left, well they are the 4th and I will post some images of them shortly, I had forgotten that I had mounted them and they were in my storage area for figures ready to prime or paint, anyway that is who the dark blue and red are.

AB order hopefully at the beginning of July...

If everything goes as planned I will be ordering some more AB french Lasalle units at the beginning of July. For those of you that have never seen or painted AB miniatures, they are the creme de la creme of 15mm Napoleonics in my opinion and while they are a bit more expensive than OG they are well worth it!  I hope to be ordering the following units:

2 More French Dragoon units
2 French Chausser units
2 More French Cuirassiers units
2 More French Hussar units
Some French Marshall's and General's
1 Reserve Foot Artillery battery
1 French foot battery
1 French Horse Battery

God willing I will be able to order them next week and they will get here soon.  I want to have them all painted up before the beginning of August when I start working on my 1806 Prussians.