French horse artillery Napoleonic 57 and a Wednesday WIP

 Here's an artillery piece for the horse artillery, a nice metal Perry model, all primed based and painted as one.

Lovely figures that have come up well. Lurking in the background are some Perry plastic French line, who as they are in the process of being painted I thought I'd show you how they are done after the last posts comments. 

As you can see they're part way through the process and almost usable!  To save a bit more time the bases are coloured with some dilute stain and varnish in a tub and the base dipped in ot enough to come up to their boots and then removed. The commander and the honour guard's halberd heads and brace of pistols are Victrix and the eagle and ribbons are warlord

Four more figures to the total, 264, every little helps!

All the best

 Iain 

Second battalion of the chasseurs of the Imperial Guard Napoleonic 56

 Finally finished off the second battalion of the chasseurs of the Imperial Guard, much like the first battalion except these are all Foundry casting room figures, much more in line with 28mm than the other Napoleonic figures I have from Foundry.  I'm quite happy with the monopose for these chaps obviously I'd prefer them in full dress but at least it's not greatcoats! 

Usual fast and dirty paint job, primed black, then I've used colours as a form of highlight, no fancy washes or triads but good enough. Painted in exile so the lighting isn't great, once they're flagged I'll squeeze them into another post.There is one more unit left to prep and prime from the French army, another all metal unit, I treated myself to the second battalion of grenadiers of the Imperial Guard from the Perry's again not full dress but not greatcoats, once they're prepped and primed, plus some Guard horse artillery  and a 3d printed supply wagon and various other mdf support wagons other than that I think that's it for Napoleonic French, all at least primed which is good, still got lots to paint but at least the end is in sight and virtually all the  French plastic is built and primed. Coming back to this unit, the flag like the first battalion will be from  GMB but currently in a draw at home , pleasant to finally paint another twenty four figures to add to the Napoleonic total of 259, I think 400 might be out of reach by the end of the year but I will push on!

And for Tim some work in progress, converting plastic Austrian Uhlans and hussars, from British light dragoons and converted 1809 Westphalians from Wargames Atlantic Prussian reserve and various other Germanic figures! Well James will be happy with the time spent on them!

All the best 

Iain