Finally... The French Light Infantry March!

A few weeks ago I mentioned in passing that there was a load of 28mm Perry Napoleonic French sitting on the table waiting to be based. They'd been waiting a while.
Two years in fact.
Well the  guilt must have got to me!

The regiment

They are supposed to represent the 13th regiment and I did have a lovely GMB flag ready to complete the eagle bearer.

Command

But, it was too big and the glue on the pole too resolute to make an adjustment! So this regiment have left their precious colour in the depot and just brought the pole. Apparently not too uncommon in reality due to the expense of replacing them.

February and March 2018 Progress

Well the year's production has got a bit better mostly due to the bulk qualities of 6mm and finding some troops that had been hanging about just waiting to be finished off.


Painted

• 24 6mm Napoleonic Prussian Infantry
• 27 6mm Napoleonic Russian Cossacks
• 10 Dark Angels
• 1 Dark Angel Librarian
• 1 Dark Angel Chapter Master
• 5 Scions

Bought: 0


Monthly: +68
Yearly: +46

Dark Angels - Command

Somebody to lead the Dark Angels against the hordes of Xenos and Chaos and other Space Marines (more of which in a later post - to be clear, much later post).

First up the Chapter Master:

A lot of dry brushing on this one which has left a bit of a grainy effect, but to be honest I just wanted him done.

Then a Librarian:

Both are from the Dark Vengeance box and means that only five and a half years after I bought it I'm down to only five minis to complete!

Truly I am living the plastic meeples dream!

 

 

 

Imperial Guard - Scions

These chaps were bought as a bodyguard for Inquisitor Greyfax.


Not sure where the Red Beret came from... in the mythos apparently

As such I don't expect them to last long, they'll either fall prey to some Xenos nasty, be consumed by the immaterium or dispatched by the zealous Inquisitor herself. After all in the grim dark there are no innocents!

If you're gonna have a plasma gun it might as well be a big 'un

The blue uniforms were a foray into using the Citadel Artificer Tint Set which provides some highly concentrated pigment to make colours pop or in this case give a metallic a bluish hue.

Dark Vengeance, Dark Angels

I undercoated these ages ago but left them forgotten on an unloved garage shelf. Then in one of my foray's into said garage I spotted them and it was near Christmas and maybe I was full of Festive Spirit, or some kind of spirit, so I rescued them and tarted them up a bit.

On the 10th day of Christmas my true love sent to me...

Being Dark Angels they look quite Christmassy; green, red and flashes of white, and bone but let's ignore that.

Heavy plasma gunner

These are from the Dark Vengeance box set released in 2012 and came with 6th edition rules which I read but never played (along with 5th, 7th and thus far 8th though 8th reads well).

Sergeant

They will appear at an unspecified time in the future on the Morgoth XIII table.

Trooper

January 2018 Progress

And we're off to a slow start... nothing at all finished in January, a few 6mm got to the ready for basing stage, so did a few 40K figures but nothing actually got completed.

The 40K condition continued too with a few unnecessary purchases (enabled by some Festive gift vouchers); soon GW are going to own the house!

Improvement required for February then!

Painted:
Nothing!

Bought:
10 Primaris Space Marines
1 Primaris Officer
1 Landraider
10 Tzangors

Monthly Trend: -22
Yearly Trend: -22

6mm Hussars - speed paint

Prevarication is my middle name, well not really but if my parents had bothered to give me a middle name (they felt it was surplus to requirements, possibly like myself) prevarication would have been high on the list.

Along with 'Oi you!', 'Don't touch that' and 'what have you done now'.

So rather than actually painting stuff I tend to deflect my attention onto reading how others paint stuff and generally achieve something in their lives.

But every so often I give something a go and one Saturday afternoon in February I decided to see how quickly I could blob paint on a squadron of 6mm Russian hussars. That's 9 figures, all Baccus.


14:50 All set for my dubious attentions

All were stuck on a lolly stick which Amazon sell in batches of a hundred or so at a ridiculous rate which can in no way be sustainable (either as a business model or a rain forest).

Undercoat was just a watered down slap dash of citadel Abbadon Black.

14:55 Undercoat splattering achieved!

Of course this takes a bit of time to dry so to encourage them I switched on the spare fan heater in the office. Don't know if it achieved anything but I felt at least I had done something. The industrious amongst you might have considered painting something else and I did glance wistfully at the 28mm Napoleonic French infantry battalion that has been sitting on the desk waiting to be PVA'ed onto MDF for over two years. But, I must confess, after all this time I find it difficult to establish eye contact with the blighters; its an old romance gone stale.

Drying done, then horses time. Straightforward coat of Mournfang Brown for the lot bar the trumpeter's that got dabbed in Celestial Grey.

15:08 Brown horses... other colours are available but not in my army

In future I'm going to do horses by setting the airbrush on them. This should mean I can get that colour done on an industrial scale, which is just as well as I have an industrial scale backlog.

Things quickened now as I could splat different colours on as others dried. Russian hussar regiments don't have the diversity of colours that adorn some nations. I decided these would be a squadron from the Soumy regiment mostly because they had red breeches and grey everything else and I thought that would break up the uniform bottle green of the rest of the army.

15:15 Grey pelisse, dolman and saddle cloths added

15:19 A dash of red on the trousers

15:25 Hands and faces on

15:28 Swords

15:34 White detailing.

The white braiding doesn't show up well in the photograph partially because of the scale of the figures but mostly because I didn't want to waste my eye sight painting it!

15:36 Sabretache red detail

15:50 Bases and tidy up

The completed squadron

In all it took 55 minutes... sure I can go faster and probably be neater/more detailed.

But that's them ready to hit the basing manufactorium in the garage.

Wait, did I just use the word 'manufactorium'? Games Workshop have a lot to answer for...