Latest work MkI: AB 15mm Prussian Officers

So in a trade I did with Galpy, I got these guys among other stuff.  Anyway these guys are my officer corps for my Jena Prussians.  These AB mini's are absolutely brilliant!  I think from now on I will only "buy" AB's any more.  You may still see other stuff on here but anything that is not AB is generally from old purchases or trades.  Anyway here they are, please note that I still have to paint the horses on some of these.

18mm AB Jena Prussian 2nd Cuirassiers Final...

Well I think they are done other than maybe painting on some buttons and flocking the bases.  These AB Prussian Cuirassiers were a lot of fun to paint!  I think in the beginning I was a little off when I started working on them but I came around a bit after starting, so I think they turned out ok.  They could have been better, and I may do some more touch ups here and there later but right now I am just trying to get my Jena Prussians on the field.  Cheers

15mm Essex Jena Prussian Musketeers Nr.10 Wedel

Next on my list of 5 musketeer units I will be painting in the first bunch, these guys are the Nr. 10 Wedel regiment.  I have seen reference to them being noted as Ir.10 and Nr.10 which is it?  On the page below they are referred to as Nr.

http://www.napoleon-series.org/military/organization/Prussia/infantry/Schema/c_Schema1.html


  Anyway I had a hard time with the Prussian blue, I was initially using Vallejo Dark Prussian Blue, but it was so dark it was almost black, to I put a 2nd coat on of Foundry Deep Blue Light 20c.  I have seen others use an almost blue-ish grey color, so I picked up Reaper Pro Paint Winter Blue as a test to see how this goes with the Vallejo Dark Prussian Blue base,  Oh well what do you all think?

15mm AB Jena Prussian 2nd Cuirassiers work in progress

Well I have been busy in between surfing the net looking for employment and driving around looking, I have been working on these.  They are part of the Prussians I got in trade from Galpy.  These guys are painted up to be the 2nd Cuirassiers.  I like the looks of this unit and I believe the only Cuirassiers regiment to have a yellow and red tunic.  I am not too happy with them at the moment, I don't know if it me or my brushes or a combination there of but I just don't think they look all that good.  What do you guys think?  Please I need some advise on finishing these guys up...  Anyway here they are.

15mm Essex Jena Prussian Musketeers Nr.11 Schöning

I just got these mounted on their bases after painting them up.  I am going to look for areas that need touch ups then flock them and clear coat them.  The unit I chose was Nr.11 Schöning I just liked the some what blood red color that their facings are.  I have 4 more of these Essex Jena Prussian musketeer units to paint along with 3 Grenadier units and the I have some 2 AB Jena Prussian Dragoons units and 2 Large unit Kurassier units to paint up as well.  The large unit being a Lasalle unit that has a (+) next to it in the book so they are 18 in the unit instead of 12. I got the AB's in a trade with my friend Galpy in NZ.  Anyway here is Jena Prussian Musketeer Unit Nr.11 Schöning.

Finished 15/18mm AB French Imperial Guard

Okay, they are finally done!  I had been nursing them for far too long, but with the arrival or pending arrival of all of the stuff I got coming from Galpy they had to get finished.  Now on to AB French foot and horse artillery batteries. I have one foot, one horse and one reserve battery that just arrived from AB USA.  These are the Lasalle unit packs that they sell.  They only come with 1/3 to 1/2 the limbers/caissons that are needed to I will have to order a mix of six more limbers and caissons to finish these guys out.  I will post starting pictures of them tomorrow hopefully.  Here come the Guard!  Please let me know what you think...

15mm Ab French Imperial Guard #2 Last 2 sticks

Okay so here are the last 2 sticks of 16 AB French Imperial Guard to do.  I have been trying to finish these up as I just got a very good sized order in of more AB's from a trade that I just did with Galpy in New Zealand  and want to move onto them,  I will post more about them later.  Also I can not wait until my new eye glasses come in, I went in about a week ago to the VA(Veterans Admin. USA) for an eye check and my yearly prescription, which I have put off for 3 yrs.  Anyway the new glasses will be here in about 2 weeks or so, hopefully they will help my painting as I have a lot of difficulties of late trying to paint and only see stuff that needs to be touched up on these after I look at the pictures. Later today hopefully I will be posting up the final result for this unit.  After painting AB, Essex, Old Glory and Mini-figs I have to say that the AB's are the best followed up by the Mini-Figs and the Old Glory and lastly Essex.  Simply on size and detail of the figures.  The AB's have so much detail to them they just beg to be painted "properly" which is an absolute joy to do.  Anyway here they are.

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.