Spanish/Sardinians update

Supplies rolled in over the past few days. First the MDF bases from Pendraken, then the figures themselves from Heroics and Ros, and on Wednesday the additional magnetic paper and magnets I needed.

Here are the figures: 8 brigades’ worth of line infantry, 1 of grenadiers, 3 of artillery and 1 of cavalrym. Plus a few spares. As these will be matched with equivalent numbers of French (the Spanish) and Austrians (the Sardinians), this will give me a total of 18 infantry and 2 cavalry brigades. Not including the 2 Spanish cavalry brigades ready to use.

The picture shows the figures prior to preparation for undercoating. I.E. before the little tags were clipped off and the stands filed flat. They were undercoated on Wednesday morning before work. I need to decide which units I want to paint. Specifically, which ones will be ‘native’ regiments for the respective armies in white coats, and which ones will be foreign regiments (usually blue or red).

Also in the work queue are the supplies for making poplar trees. It can’t be Italy without lines of poplar trees right?* I know roughly how I will make them but there will be a few failed attempts before I hit the right method.

* incidentally if anyone knows whether or not Lombardy poplars were used in the 18th century in the same way we associate with northern Italy today, let me know. I know they were first introduced in Britain in 1752, so that’s a pretty good sign. I must look harder at contemporary artworks.

That just leaves me to make a decision on sourcing appropriate style buildings.

Until the next update, arrivederci!