Sunday 3 July 2022

Not yet Done with Bonaparte!

I swore that I would not be tackling any further large projects for myself, that it was done and dusted! But when the Warlord Epic Waterloo release came along I could feel myself being drawn to it as somehow it reminded me of my early days of plastic Airfix Napoleonics, a period of my life that I look back on with great affection. I resisted for months but the more Youtube videos about the figures that I watched the more I knew that I just had to at least have a close look at a single sprue, just to see what all the fuss was about. That was just under 4 weeks ago and since then I have fallen totally under their spell and have already painted over 300 figures towards what I plan as a DBN project with a lot more figures comprising a basic 12 point army on 60mm wide bases and a correspondingly larger table and ground scale. While I have painted hundreds of Peninsular War Napoleonics from 6mm through to 40mm it had been decades since I had given much thought to Waterloo, the battle that got me started in the hobby almost half a century ago. 

My starter 12 point armies will comprise:

8 bases of line infantry (20 men per base)

1 base of rifles or skirmishers 

2 batteries of artillery (2 guns and crews per base)

1 base of heavy cavalry and 1 base of Lights.

Baggage/camp base.

To be honest I'm not too far off this already, I hope to get a game on the table by this coming weekend and with the numbers of figures per base even just 12 points per side should look good. Longer term, well be a shame to waste all the extra figures on the sprues wouldn't it? and of course there is the lovely Old Guard sprue with Grenadiers, Chasseurs, Engineers and Marins plus Guard foot artillery.

It would seem that I am not yet done with Bonaparte after all .

















Finally, the inspiration behind the title of this post, great lyrics and bang on topic, not only Mark Knopfler in great form but a bonus seeing Emmylou Harris alongside.




  

9 comments:

  1. They are utterly charming aren't they! :-)

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    1. Hello Norm, great to hear from you again :) Yes, Warlord have certainly hit the sweet spot with these little beauties!

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  2. Oooh great track. Right up my alley. Also, you need to get a bloody big cage for that gaming butterfly of yours. It’s worse than mine. That Napoleonic bunch looks mint by the way. You’re a dab hand with the horses!

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    1. Hi mate, yes, wonderful track. I had a 'thing' about Emmylou Harris many moons ago and she certainly looks and sounds great there :) As for the Butterfly, Gawd, I hope not, I blame Warlord!

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  3. You make them look very tempting indeed!

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    1. Thank you. Now, if I were Fifteen again I just know these would have drawn me right into this wonderful hobby!

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  4. You’ve done really well with these and I knew you wouldn’t be able to resist once you started. The really hard part is restricting it to DBN but there again if you’re not to fussed about the British uniform there are some big battles to be fought in Spain 🤣

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  5. Hi Graham. yes, I'm hooked on these now! There is a guy I follow on YouTube (Miniature Realms) Stuart is a full time commission painter - and a very good one - who is also producing Epic tutorials, well worth a watch/ listen while painting as I do. He's actually doing 1812 Peninsular and has printed some superb resin figures to match the Epics including stove pipe British and skirmishing rifles etc. I think he has contacted Warlord with the suggestion that they make a pack of metal stovepipe heads for pre 1815. Thinks it in this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Qea24oW1-g

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  6. They do look rather nice, Lee.

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