Something different

So besides my Napoleonics been painting up some 6mm Carthaginians for DBM to sell in order to buy more Napoleonics. Had these ancients for..idk..10-15 years..sitting in a box. Painted a lot of Celtic/Gallic Infantry but haven't mounted any yet. But did finish a stand of Elephants that I thought came out pretty well.

Winter's Work

So my painting schedule did drop off, some what drastically. BUT in my defense, most of the past months was working hard on the AoE Scenarios I made. Those scenarios and maps took up way more time than I thought it would. It was worth it in the end but did limit my painting. That and 10 days in March which were in the 70s-80s here in Chicago, very hard to stay inside during such a heat wave. With the scenarios finished April's painting has been on schedule and looking good, these figures aren't in the photos below. I hope can keep up the current pace, despite Easter, Little Wars and a Borodino playtest taking up some days.

February and March's work...I know it wasn't much.

An Austrian Grenzer Brigade with two Jager Battalions attached.

Close up of the Jagers

1806 Saxon Grenadiers

Russian Dragoons, Tver on the left St. Petersburg on the right.

Russian Horse Guards

Prussian Dragoon Brigade from Oppen's Division at the Battle of Gross Beeren, The Queen's, Brandenburg and 2nd West Prussian Regiments.

Swedish Artillery

French 25th Dragoons

Two French Legere Brigades

Two French Ligne Brigades

4th Wurttemburg Regiment (The flash bled out the bright pink of the standards)

The Wurzburg Regiment, a nice looking unit although I believe only really needed as an independent unit for the Battle of Friedland

AoE Scenarios

I've upload my FREE AoE scenario book "Power is my Mistress" to the AoE yahoo group. 28 Scenarios from Castricum to Waterloo. Over 150 pages including color maps and unit labels. If your not part of the yahoo group I can't recommend it enough for Napoleonic Wargaming.

http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/NapoleonicFireandFury/

Steve

For Sale

As I'm trying to redo my Napoleonic collection for scratch, and considering HOW
much painting that's going to involve (2-3 years at best estimate). I can't see myself doing any AoH in the
future. So I've put whats left of my painted AoH 6mm up on Ebay. About 11 Packs
of Heroics and Ros, mainly French..some nice work there if anyone is looking to
add to their 6mm collection.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=260992568197&ssPageName=STRK:\
MESE:IT

Steve

So far so good...

Well 15 days later and I'm on track with my 2012 painting schedule. 75 stands done.

All the work done so far.

Joseph Bonaparte in 1812 (I realized after painting him, he went back to Westphalia after arguing with Davout so he saw no actual fighting making the corp stand for him pointless....but it was fun painting him)

Stockmeyer's Brigade at Gross Beeren (1813) the Wurttemburg 7th Line Infantry and the 9th & 10th Light Battalions attached.

Wurttemburg Foot and Horse Artillery (The horse teams for the foot artillery wasn't finished in time for the photos)

French Young Guard 1st Voltigeurs

French 11th (left) & 26th (right) Chasseurs

Late war Saxon  Hussars and Uhlans

Late war Saxon Heavy Cavalry, the Lifeguards and the Zastrow Cuirassier. (Sadly the photos don't do these guys justice, they are up there with some of my best work)

Swedish Infantry. Brandstroem's Brigade; the Vastgotadahls, Vestmanlands and Jamtlands Regiments (from left to right). I replaced the Nerike regiment with the Jamtland, to bring some variety to the brigade. I liked their grey uniforms with green facing color.

8th Prussian Infantry (1st Brandenburg) in 1813

5th Prussian Infantry (4th East Prussian) in 1813

Austrian Erdody (Frimont) Hussars

I painted a stand of Swedish artillery and two of seven years war Prussian Cuirassier as well, but I figure by themselves they weren't enough for a solo pic (they're included in the big photo though).

Hopefully I keep up the pace and get everything done soon.

2011 Leftovers

So I didn't really keep up with my blog at the end of year and several units never made it up here. I figure I would display them before showing my 2012 work.

First off we have the Old Guard from Austerlitz. The Chasseurs, Grenadiers and the Italian Velites.

Some Seven Years War Hanoverians. Wahgenheim's Brigade from Krefeld.

Seven Years War Hanoverian heavy cavalry.

Heise Horse, Garde du Corp and Grenadiers a' Cheval

WSS/7YW French Dragoons. Du Roy (in Blue) and Apchon (in Red)

Seven Years War Austrian Szechenyi Hussars

WSS/7YW French Artillery

Back on track...

Okay, sssooo.....totally failed at last years painting schedule. I blame running a complicated D&D campaign (which was an awesome time) and WoW (Damn you crack-craft!!!!). But the D&D party wiped, so I'm free of DMing for awhile (fingers crossed) and WoW even with 4.3 patch has gotten stale pretty fast. I hope the next expansion doesn't come out til fall/winter. And in some ways I'm lucky my old PC can't handle SWTOR, because I have no doubt that would suck me in fast. Once again I feel inspired to paint whats left of the Napoleonics and 7YW I own. To be honest not sure why...the remaining collection is scattered and unorganized I can't actually play a battle. But I do wish to finish them...most likely sell on Ebay afterwards.

The plan is to paint 5 stands, or one Heroics and Ros pack, per day. So far so good. Since 12/30 have painted a twelve stand Swedish Infantry brigade, a late war Saxon Light Cavalry Brigade and some 7YW Prussian Cuirassier. At 1 pack a day that's just over 150 stand by months end. So I'll come back in 29 days with all the photos of what I completed...and it better be 150 stands.

Til then, be warm and safe.
Steve