Monday 22 June 2020

Lockdown project parade & what next?

Hard to believe that almost three months have flown by since I decided to paint myself a couple of 12 point DBN armies as a lockdown project. I achieved that by the end of April as planned and have continued to paint on a daily basis since then. The switch to AB infantry certainly helped fuel the enthusiasm and I have now arrived at the point that you see below. I have no doubt that I will now expand the armies for the 100 days campaign, but this will be a more gradual ambition over the next few months.

I decided to stick with Blue Moon for the cavalry because the AB's are somewhat larger and I do not want to repaint my  cavalry, it's not so much the AB horses - which are beautiful sculpts - but the riders that do not sit well beside the BM's, although the infantry are a perfect match. As a nod in the future direction I painted a base of Life Guards and will add the Royal Horse Guards next, these guys are actually mounted upon AB horses and that works very well.

I'm well stocked up now with figures for the project, but once I have painted the second of my Portuguese line bases (tomorrow) I'm going to take a couple of weeks break and paint some figures for Old John that have been patiently waiting for some time now. Meanwhile with life slowly beginning to return to some normality I'm going to get some DBN games in on the new table including some of the scenarios from One Hour Wargames. I think I have achieved exactly what I set out to do three months ago with the overall look and feel of both the table and the figures.

18mm figures by AB and Blue Moon, painted April, May, June. British, French, Spanish and Portuguese.

280 line infantry.
42 skirmishers
20 heavy cavalry.
27 light cavalry.
28 artillery crew
7 guns
15 mounted generals.







 







20 comments:

  1. Wow! Very impressive sight, Lee!

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  2. That is a gorgeous collection and all the more impressive for the speed in which it has accumulated.

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    1. Cheers Norm, I had been placing each base in the storage unit as I finished them so this was the first time I had them all out together for a count up, I was surprised they had topped the 400 mark!

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  3. fantastic display, wonderful painting, give yourself a huge round of applause im other words magnifecent

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    1. Thank you John. I'll be bashing on with some of your stuff now :)

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  4. Agreed! What an impressive, colorful, and varied output in just a short time. Can't wait to see what you add in the coming months.

    Best Regards,

    Stokes

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    1. Many thanks Stokes. Things will slow down a bit now, but Waterloo is certainly calling me!

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  5. Super job Lee - they are marvellous.

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  6. Thank you Sir. It is fortuitous that the bases can be used for both DBN and C&C. I'm still waiting for my 3" printed hex mat but I'll certainly be giving Ramekin a shot.

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  7. A most impressive sight if only I could stay focused long enough to paint like that 🤣

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  8. Fantastic output of gorgeous figures! So many to such a high standard!
    Best Iain

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  9. Marvelous sculpts, wonderfully painted and presented.

    Its almost enough to make me nostalgic for my old BH French Rev and ACW figures!

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    1. Hi Ross, they are nice sculpts indeed. I was looking at the old BH ACW's the other day, they are also still available from Eureka Miniatures. I had hundreds of them back in the day!

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  10. To add to the superlatives; fabulous 'review' Lee! A massive and impressive display of your beautifully painted figures. Most inspiring.

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    1. Thank you James, and now to see if they can fight!

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