Slow but steady

This post is as much for my benefit, in terms of keeping a record of progress, than anything else. After work I delved into a couple of items on the list.

I started to organise my Greek cavalry and light troops into units, partly to work out if I had enough bases (it looks like I'll need more). There looks to be a lot of light infantry (I have no idea of proportions historically, so maybe that's something else I need to consider). Gut reaction is I don't need so many. So I'll probably just base a few units. That'll relieve a bit of pressure on bases - I don't want to make a new order without working out if I need anything else at the same time. 

Another conclusion I came to was that I don't need any more storage boxes, so that one is ticked off, at least until I get to number 20 on the list. Also, I have enough 'magnetic paper' and magnets. All to be qualified by the catch-all phrase 'for now'.

One other by-product of the look at the light troops is that I discovered several of them had helmets, round shields and pointy sticks. So I pinched several of them to pad out the 6th/8th unit of hoplites (depending on rules). Now the pointy sticks are a bit short for hoplites' dories/dorata, but I think I have some fuse wire somewhere. The shields are also a bit small for aspides, but at this scale and in the rear ranks.....

Pending the arrival of the order placed with H&R last month I'll hold off on #6, 11 and painting the 'Ottomans' and press on with 7. Maybe I can have a bash at 9 at the weekend.

Tentative Order	Job
1	Finish river pieces
2	Check stock of magnetic paper and bases
3	Paint houses
4	Order storage boxes
5	Paint walls
6	Paint and base trees
7	Rebase Greeks and Persians 35%
8	Flag SYW figures (French priority)
9	Try Alala!
10	Try Siege Works rules
11	Paint wagons and gun teams
12	Decide what to do with SYW odds and sods
13	Paint petard crews etc
14	Prepare New Year Campaign
15	Paint sheep
16	Paint pack animals
17	Paint villagers (6 and 10mm)
18	Make fortress
19	Ottoman painting guide
20	Order Irregular Ottoman army
21	Paint Ottomans
22	Run ECW siege campaign
23	Make AWI boats
24	Maybe rebase some Romans
25	Build & paint sailing ships