It's touching mid Thirties here now, and we have moved to a different rented villa with views down over Calpe and the rock, there is a pleasant breeze, and I'm sitting by the pool updating my blog. Our new home has similar views down over Gandia, slightly further South along the Costa Blanca, towards Valencia. On Wednesday we are to attend the Notary's office in Oliva along with our excellent solicitor Josefa when the purchase will complete and the house will be ours. This one is completely un-furnished so are on the hunt now for new furniture, fully modernised and far more modest than the huge villa we initially went for, but we know we are doing the right thing, it has a lovely homely feel and a large infinity pool shared between just 6 properties in a gated community,(which also means shared costs of upkeep). Our neighbours are Spanish and German.
Meantime I have continued to unpack the 40mm Napoleonics, and have to start by saying what a brilliant job Mrs 'Big Andy' made of the wrapping up, not a single broken bayonet or sword, even the extra 'blocked in' figures all individually wrapped! I'm going to really enjoy finishing off the blocked in figures, adding detail and shading etc and generally bringing them up to the standard of the completed figures. I'm really pleased with them, and have organised them into 8 figure Sharp Practice companies. With a total of about 300 figures it did occur to me yesterday that with additional command figures I could organise them in 24 figure units for Muskets and Marshals instead, possibly for small games given the scale, I'll set up a couple of 24 figure battalions for the next post as an example. Anyway, here is what came out of the unbased/unfinished box yesterday and next time I'll feature some of the artillery and foot, along with the mounted officers.
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| Finished line below and Grenadiers above. I counted a total of 16 Grenadiers plus an officer. |
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| Lower two rows of French infantry are 'blocked in', above are fully painted. |
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| These are finished figures, ready for basing. |
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| 'Blocked in Brits'.... the hard work mostly done now it's down to detailing and shading etc. |
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| Printed linen flags. |
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| The view from the terrace towards Calpe. |
FYI Lee the Grenadier in Bearskin caps are actually Line Grenadiers- many regiements had their grenadiers in bearskin caps up until the uniform changes of 1812-13. I never did any Imperial Guard as the force were meant for the Peninsular,- where of course they now live
ReplyDeleteHi Andy .... No Old Guard in the Peninsular, I forgot that. I'm looking forward to the arrival of my reference books now in about 3 weeks time. I tell you what, I would not want to be wearing a bearskin in this heat!
DeleteYou lucky so and so. Nice figures by the way.Check out Adolfo Ramos who makes some lovely flags and has a very good mail order.Enjoy the move.
ReplyDeleteThank you Robbie, things are going well. I'll check out the flag chap and see what he does.
DeleteIt's good to see the army building machine is up and running again - it sounds like it might actually take them onto the field of battle this time?
ReplyDeleteAll the best and keep posting.
Hi Rob, I do intend to actually use these figures for once, they are too nice not too.
DeleteLovely looking figures and quite nice you get to finish some off!
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Hi Iain, I doubt I would have found the enthusiasm to start another project from scratch, this is perfect for me and I'm really looking forward to getting my paints set up again and working on these 'blocked in' figures. I also have additional unpainted cavalry that I ordered, a unit of British Light Dragoons and a unit of Line Chasseurs plus another British RA gun and crew.I'm also going to order some British Dragoons in those wonderful bicornes.
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