Slow Progress

Made very slow progress over the last fortnight. Still recovering from major surgery last year, underweather with seasonal cold, and then last week had stitches removed from first eye surgery. Still onwards and upwards- I did manage to get some work done.

Started with Line Infantry. Tempting though it would be to commence with Cavalry or guard, I knew I needed core first which would be useful for Waterloo, Peninsular War or any battle. The big attraction in Napoleonics is the full dress uniform, but I needed to build up my painting confidence. So greatcoats it is.

These are some of the figures I bought in December, block painted to basic gaming standard:

  This was painted as 6 "companies" each of 20 troopers plus officer plus drummer, plus a regimental commander and standard. So these 134 figures would give me the best part of four units for Black Powder using standard 36 man battalions. Just need some extra standard bearers.

I wanted some more variety in clothing. Not as much as for units in Peninsular War or in 1813/14 following the debacle of invasion of Russia. But enough to represent that units called up and outfitted at short notice for the Hundred Days. So I painted a few of the trousers and couple of greatcoats in dark blue, leaving the majority with light grey overcoats and white trousers. Next I dipped using Strongtone shade.

I had  planned on taking a few more before, during and after shots but poor light today by the time I had finished. Still it was a (belated) start and one I need to build on to keep project momentum going.