Early Austrians in 1/72 and a more generic version in 2 mm scale are the figures currently getting attention from the brushes chez moi. I recently moved proceedings inside the house as night-time temps have been consistently just a few degrees (celsius, of course).
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It has been kinder steps with these Austrians, but they are coming along.
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It has turned d@mned cold lately, it don't get much lower here.
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Now that I have completed faces, packs
and muskets on the above 216 infantry (and a bit more on their 2 mm
counterparts), I am ready to move to the facings, white uniforms and
white/blue trousers (a couple of Hungarian regts being amongst them), so
will also pick up on the early French that have been waiting patiently
for some months!
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Early French, patiently waiting their turn for some more colour.
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The next four of my '21 Napoleons' are a bit more advanced and will be progressed to completion, with guides and consular guard in tow.
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Consular Guard, Guides de Bonaparte and three of my next 21 Napoleons.
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| Closer look at four of my next 21 Napoleons, which are a bit more advanced. |
I also have some figures for
later years of the Napoleonic era that will get additions when I have some of
an appropriate colour paint dispensed that I want to use up.
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French infantry in greatcoats and hats for 1805 (although they likely only had 'liberated' Austrian greatcoats then) to 1807.
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Oudinot 'grenadiers' of 1805–07 (infanterie légère).
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| Oudinot 'grenadiers' of 1805–07 (infanterie de ligne). |
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| Russian infantry of 1805–07. |
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| French dismounted dragoons, chiefly for 1805–07 (although may get a 'run' in the Peninsula). |
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| Assorted, including more Oudinot 'grenadiers' (infanterie de ligne). |
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| Vistula legion, all four 'regiments'. |
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| French infantry in greatcoats and shakos for 1808—15. |
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At the other end of the production line: more early Austrians in kasketts and figures for future vignettes/command stands for my 21 Napoleons.
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| We had rain and cloudy days before it cleared up and turned *freezing*, leading to a recent glorius pre-sunrise (above) and sunset (below). |
You make splendid progress on your project, James. Glorious sunrise and sunset.
ReplyDeleteThanks for the encouragement Jonathan. The colours of that sunrise were sensational (now the home screen of my phone!). It was marvellous serendipity that we saw it coming while on the way back from a morning walk with the dogs and were able to get to a position to catch that brief instant of its point of greatest colour.
DeleteThose figures takes me back and great to see people still using them, especially with all the more recent expansion to ranges :)
ReplyDeleteThanks Mark. It is a scale that is used by many, many people, as you no doubt know from blogs.
DeleteCompared to other war gamers, I tend to paint in bulk (50 to 80 figures at a time), but what you are doing here is another thing altogether, James!
ReplyDeleteI don’t much care for 6 mm figures and I don’t get 2 mm at all, but little matter, they are proceeding apace for sure!
As we have 'e-chatted' about 'off-line', it's an approach that has developed for me, but has meant that, over the past two years or so, I have been enjoying my painting like never before—and am even getting some reasonable numbers to ultimate completion while keeping a lot of balls in the air (and adding lots to the to-do list at the other end!!).
DeleteThe 2 mm is an acquired taste, I am sure. I liked them from when I first got some back in the mid-2000s. Time and more thinking about best use and basing has lead me to see the use even more (and really enjoying the painting at the mo').
Nice work, great to see the products of diligence over time. Gorgeous photography.
ReplyDeleteThank you Joe. Your label of 'diligence' is mis-associated, I am afraid, but I am keeping a 'focus', albeit a broad one!
DeleteYou’ve been busy James! I like batch painting too.
ReplyDeleteSky looks amazing, especially the pre-sunrise one. Never realised it got as cold as that down there.
Ah, a fellow traveller, excellent! Your wonderful output belittles my own though in both quality and quantity!
DeleteA week of single-digit minima is rare. Our lowest on record was a -4ºC in an especially dry, clear-skied winter in 2010 (driest on record, beating 1914). We have only had a couple of frosts so far, although we regularly get some in early spring (but the days are much warmer then, of course).
That's quite an undertaking James. I don't have the tenacity to be able to tackle a batch of 216, so can only imagine the feeling of satisfaction you'll get when they all march out together.
ReplyDeleteThank you Lawrence, but I admire your ability to produce a beautifully-painted unit every week or two far more!
DeleteNice, big batch painting! I love the mule train! I'm coping with a sea of plastic sprues at the moment, Napoleonic Austrian and French, snap!
ReplyDeleteBest Iain
Excellent, snap indeed!
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