25mm Dutch/Belgium’s v French Napoleonic’s

25mm Dutch/Belgium’s v French Napoleonic’s When to put a new flag on one of my Dutch regiments then got the rest of the regiment of the shelf as you do I know a bit sad . They look a bit dusty gave them a quick brush Ill look at the rest of the Dutch Belgium’s dusty to so of I go to give them a light dusting to and a lot of puff not much fun to put them back on the shelf . Game to be played then they can go back on the shelf only 4 regiments better use a Nassau regiment as well and Dutch Dragoons 3 guns as well.

25mm E C W Cavalry

25mm ECW Cavalry Getting to the end of the figures in the ECW box of unpainted figures one more box out of the way . Cuirassiers and Dragoons the Cuirassiers are Hinchliffe but the Dragoons I have not found out what make they are as yet got them as a gift a few months a go . Undercoated some more Hinchliffe Dragoons and Generals painted the horses in oil paints and is sitting on the windowsill drying so by the end of October may be all finished after 30 odd years or so .

25mm British 15th Hussars

25mm British 15th Hussars Having painted my 15th Hussars back in the 70s in a unit of 24 to match all other Cavalry in my Napoleonic’s armies I know a bit on the big side ( Infantry units 50 men 3 officers 3 drummers and 1 or 2 standards and 2 NCO as well may be a bit over the top in this day and age). When club members pass on to the big wargams table in the sky and have left a few figures most wargams clubs will auction the odd box of figures and you tend to buy them at more then the face value . Not until you get them home and have a good look to see what you have paid for . Yep more Hussars put them to one side 30 odd years later think ill paint them one good thing there all Hinchliffe figures same as the ones I have painted. Now got a standard bearer in the first lot I painted cant have two In the same unit I know make him end of line marker bearer give him a red pennant . 39 figures in that unit that help to even the odds on the French Cavalry 20 to Allied 18 so far .Ho for my 20 foot table .

25mm English Civil War Ironsides

25mm English Civil War Ironsides 30/40 Years a go splashed with my hard-earned pocket money out on a lot of Hinchliffe ECW Figures sitting in my toy box /cupboard . The last lot of ECW figures I painted was back in July 2016 . In June this year a phone call from Mike my best friend said he was started to paint his ECW figures that like my shelf had lots from 30/40 years a go. No why did I not paint any Cavalry that what I said to my shelf when I started to paint them I had used all the horses for my Napoleonic’s . Just a few more to paint Cuirassiers

25mm French 1st Guard Lancers

1st Guard Lancers 25mm With lockdown coming to the end soon given a fair wind and a bit of luck. A few more shows will be happening and with lots of goody’s to buy . But roll back few months in my toy cupboard 25 unpainted 25mm Hinchliffe figures of French Guard Lancers and only a few horses. Having the 2nd Red Lancers ill go for the 1st Ok ill paint the figures . Started to paint them then the wife how loves to find me jobs to do in the house or garden down comes the paint brush . Our front garden wall ( Cotswold stone) has fell down into the front garden and not in the track(unmade up Road) taking with it just behind 30 foot of trellis and 6 rose bushes . Pick up paint brush paint a bit more . Order skip Skip turns up put wall in to skip . Few day later back to painting ho no what you going to do to replace the wall . Well I been up to the local builders store have ordered the new fence . Its hard being retired . Local model shop dose not have any crimson paint ok I could order it on line but one pot of paint no so its going to be red not crimson. Had a bit of luck my son got hold of some boxed Hinchliffe horses for me yes still in there boxes like there wear in the 70/80s