Hello everyone, its great to be back in the swing of the Challenge again. And here is my slightly delayed first entry of this year, a 28mm Prussian Napoleonic 6pdr Foot Battery using Perry Miniatures.
There are 4 gun models each based separately with 4 crew on 60 x 90 bases and form part of an ongoing Plancenoit Project (both sides) and this will form one half of my main focus this year, Points wise there are 16 28mm figs at 5 pts each (80) plus 4 crew served weapons at 10 each (40) for a total of 120.
I was hoping to get these in before Christmas and had the figures done but when I went to the box of bases there were none the right size 😕 so I started on some Cavalry, then found some bases I could join together to get the right size so went back, to these !
I recently retired so I'm hoping to get a lot done this year and have set myself a huge but I think achievable target of 2500, so I better get a shift on. My other main project will be, surprise, surprise Italian Wars, I am expanding my Swiss, which I haven't touched for a while as well as some Spanish so expect to see some of those soon.
Behind the scenes Day 1 of the Challenge is always horses day for me, using my oil paint method it's much more efficient to do them in big batches so I had a load undercoated ready to go and did the oil wipe stage on Day 1, getting some Italian Wars, Napoleonic and Crusades stuff ready. The horses are all dry now and I'm working on some already, they all need hooves, saddles, reigns etc painting but a good start.
Some Cavalry next then onto some Swiss.
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Welcome back to the Challenge, Ken! Congratulations on your recent retirement. It must be so nice to be able to focus on the fun things in life like playing games and painting toy soldiers. Sounds like bliss to me!
Your Prussian guns look terrific and ready to lay down some fire on the perfidious French.
I look forward to seeing your Plancenoit project come into being. Now, bring on the cavalry!
- Curt
Excellent looking Prussian artillery, its a tough one which I like more, Napoleonics or Italian Wars, so it sounds like Im going to be spoiled!
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Cheers Iain, lots of both coming up !
DeleteCrikey that’s a lot kit - again nice to see Prussians on the table and oil painted horses takes me back a long way, a method I have long abandoned.
ReplyDeleteVery lovely work, they will look great on the table.
ReplyDeleteThanks very much Steve 👍
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