Here's another unit of Perry plastic French line infantry with a Victrix officer, Perry plastic confederate flag arms and drum and Victrix eagle guard halberds and pistol holsters plus a spare warlord eagle with ribbons. Not as well painted as my Jamaican figures as I'm trying to get used to painting on a tray on a sofa and it's a bit dark! Good enough for government work though. So that's going to bring me up to 336 painted Napoleonic figures this year so far, not too bad, I can relax after 400? Don't be silly, I've got Austrian Hussars, dragoons, cuirassiers and an infantry regiment on the paint tray, together with a French Napoleonic command stand at the moment, plenty more to come!
The sheds at the end of the garden, while I was travelling around Greece I read this book, it's great and does of course make me want to paint up at least one light infantry regiment!
Really well written, much more than just a unit history, it's a social history of French infantry of the period, I came across excerpts of it online while researching my provisional Dragoon unit, so ordered it for when I got back and it didn't disappoint.
As I haven't been able to prime anything for over a year I had something of a backlog ,as while in Wales all I really did was prep figures and some terrain, so I thought I'd grab the opportunity of some time at the weekend to do some priming.
What is funny is how you can forget what you've prepared! Alright, age, got it but when I got these out of their boxes, I'd remembered prepping my last French Napoleonic infantry unit ( 2nd battalion Imperial Guard grenadiers) but I'd forgotten about the Italian Wars pike block, I'd wanted a more Italian pike block after my go at Agnadello and also some more Italian heavy cavalry, less Gendarme like following my Fornova game from some time ago, Des had a load of pre built Perry plastic mounted knights he'd got from Ebay and didn't want anymore. Also some archer heavy cavalry to fill that slot in the order of battle. In addition there is a ton of 100 years war French mounted knights so I should get on with sorting out their minions and grubby opponents! There's also three Westphalian units, three Hungarian units and two grenzers, the additional Hungarian hussars and Austrian Uhlans will have to wait till I've got some more spray paint!
All the best
