Friday 12 February 2016

From SamuliS: Regiment Prinz Maximillian (72 points)

Yet more Saxons, this time the first battalion of Regiment Prinz Maximillian in their yellow facings. Easily distinguishable from the previous Regiment Rechten as they have brass buttons, when the good folk at Rechten have white metal buttons! Definitely easy to spot from an arms length away when playing ;)

So another 18 miniatures finished. But what is it that I hear, AB miniatures being worth the points of 20mm's now! Bloody hell, might actually make reaching my target possible! So it seems I have netted 104 more points from my previous entries than I had thought! I'll leave it to the point gods to decide my faith and alter the results as needed :)


This one is the last of the yellow faced units that I have to do so I'm finally done with my most hated colour to paint! Hooray! After this it's only struggling with one shade that doesn't seem to cover even itself. White and yellow just seem so horrible to paint up always. I received some reinforcements which included casualty figures, too bad most of the sculpts weren't really usable in a unit and I'll just leave them for casualty markers.  The blood splatter didn't turn out very well though so I might just have to go back and cover it up if I don't start liking it soon.



Next Saxon unit on the line is Regiment von Steindel with two battalions. That will be the last of the line infantry from the 1st Saxon Division. Unfortunately Fighting 15s can't supply Light and Grenadiers until sometime in March so I'll have to wait until then to order more. At least I have enough minis for all the 12 line battalions so I'll be painting them until other minis are available.
Great to see more Napoleonics marching in to the Challenge.  The sculpts from AB do set the bar, and your painting skills definitely bring out the best in them.  I hope you celebrate your liberation from painting white and yellow - although I suspect, the hobby gods being what they are, you will suddenly end up with a project where you will end up once again with these exact colours...

As for the back scoring, I'll see if my ace spreadsheet colleagues can help me figure that out, but in the interim, here are another 72 points for your efforts!

19 comments:

  1. Very fine work on the Nappies, Samuli! I am impressed by how well the whole and yellow came out! ;)

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  2. great painting on grreat sculpting ! congratulations!

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  3. Very nice! I also like the variety in the trousers.

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  4. Another corker of a Saxon entry Samuli. These are inspiring my to get mine out of storage and play!

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    1. Napoleonic gaming is never a bad idea :) Best gaming period by far!

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  5. Hmmm perhaps when I have finished my Württembergers I might follow up on this excellent example!

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  6. When I see some nice Napoleonic figures it does make me want to get some and paint some and even play some. It is such a shame I do not like the period or my cheque book would be strained this morning seeing these.

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  7. Lovely figures Samuli :)

    Now that you've got away from the dread white with yellow facings units, I suspect that the capricious gods of painting will demand that you start an army in yellow with white facings ;)

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    1. To be honest I was actually thinking about starting 40k again with Imperial fists :) All yellow... Though most of the shades work quite nicely through an airbrush even if they don't cover anything when applied by brush.

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  8. I've gone back into the spreadsheet to amend the scores for the previous AB submissions and edited the posts as well.

    Samuli - you are now 104 points better off! :)

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  9. Ace work Samuli! That's definitely no easy army to pull off but you've mastered it expertly.

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  10. Excellent work Samuli! Those AB figures look great and are worth 20mm points.

    Christopher

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  11. Thank you all! These AB minis really are a joy to paint! Too bad the range is slightly limited in the amount of poses.

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  12. Having just painted some white uniforms you gain extra respect for such great looking figures

    Ian

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  13. Some spiffing uniforms there, Samuli - a beautifully finished regiment!

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  14. Very nicely done, despite disliking painting white you did a great job.

    John

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  15. Beautiful, and definitely worth the 20mm points. :)

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