Mostly painted, and based now. Five units* of infantry and 4 of cavalry (2 horse and 2 dragoons). I have a bit of white edging (hat lace and saddle cloths) to do on the cavalry and the flags on the cavalry. Then there's the base texturing, painting and 'flocking'. I might ad a few finishing touches on the horses.
* remember in my TOTSK world, units are made up of 2 bases, representing in total 4/5 battalions or about 10 squadrons
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| I just noticed a couple of bases where I haven't followed my placement standard |
This was all fairly quick because there is very little variety in the regimentals (mostly red cuffs, but some orange). There's some units who have blue cuffs and one with white (the latter just 1 battalion, so 1/4 of a game unit).
In boxes ready to paint are enough to do the following:
- 2 units of grenadiers (1 in mitres, 1 mixed bearskins & mitres for the Reichsarmee)
- 8 units of musketeers
- 3.5 units of cavalry
- 3 units of artillery
- a bunch of staff figures
I have a lot of Real Life coming up so they will be left for a while.
There are more than enough units of musketeers - I only need 4 or 5 for the Reichsarmee. So what to do with the others?
Quick work and looking good, you are certainly cranking them out at a good pace and they look great.
ReplyDeleteThanks Donnie. Expecting things to go slow for a while now until December.
DeleteLooking good thus far. You achieve such a lot with this scale. Hope Real Life is good or ok but nothing worse.
ReplyDeleteAlan Tradgardland
Cheers Alan. Appreciate it. The Real Life intrusions are nothing to worry about.
DeleteSaxons? Bavarians? Wurtemburgers? Or some of those Germans paid for by Austria or France - Rot and Blau Wurzburg?
ReplyDeleteOr Italians?
Neil
I have Saxons already. Done in a previous batch this year. Already have Bavarians. The Rot and Blau Wurzburgers, Wütemburgers and Italians are a good call Neil.
DeleteThey look splendid - I like the positioning of the mounted officer (Colonel?) so that he's in the middle of two stands.
ReplyDeleteThanks MJT. Yeah, that was the idea that he was a colonel/brigadier/major general. I think colonel’s tended to fight on foot, at least in the Prussian army. Makes sense. But the figures serve no function in the game.
DeleteChris
All looking really very nice.
ReplyDeleteCheers Richard
DeleteI think you’ve made enough progress to be able to kick back for a bit. The units look ace.
ReplyDeleteI have haven't I! 😁
DeleteSplendid looking additions, they pop nicely at this scale, waiting for you to join Mark with 28mm colonials!
ReplyDeleteBest Iain
Thanks Iain. You'll be waiting a long time as that would need me getting a whole new lot of terrain.
DeleteThey look great and your work rate remains impressive. In contrast, in the past couple of weeks I have not even finished the grand total of 16 'Bersaglieri' for 1859, also in 6mm scale! I must take inspiration from you..
ReplyDeleteI don't know. You pensioners. You have all day and spend it watching Cash in the Attic ;-)
DeleteI bet those Bersaglieri were fun with those feathers.
Yes, too many other things have been going on! The Bersaglieri feathers were a right old fiddle - I have used tiny balls of tissue paper liberally soaked in PVA glue. We'll see how they turn out..
DeleteSurprised that Baccus don’t have them moulded on the figures. Making them yourself must be fiddly.
DeleteChris
Excellent work Chris and you are making really good progress on these. Hopefully things will calm down towards the end of the month so I might be able to get some painting and gaming in again...
ReplyDeleteThanks Steve. Hope things pan out for you soon. I'm making hay while the sun shines.
DeleteThis is a very fine piece of work - they look great and their speed of preparation is astonishing. I am well impressed.
ReplyDeleteThank you Tony.
DeleteI seem to be in to the groove lately. Happy dabbing away for a few hours with the Empire podcast on in the background.