Odds and Ends in March

This post is rather different form my usual offering. In March Norsey Gamer and myself attended the Don Featherstone Memorial Weekend at the Wargames Holiday Centre and took many photographs of the battle that took place there. However to help Henry we all promised not to blog the event until the issue of Miniature Wargames containing the official report comes out.

Consequently I have decided to blog a few things that have been going on over the the last few weeks. Today's blog is about the painting that I have been doing recently. It also shows some of the chaos that I work in. When teaching we used to refer to the efficiency that took place on the edge of chaos and I think I have taken that with me into retirement. I always seem to have a lot of things going on at the same time which means that jobs get finished in a rather haphazard way.

Here are a mixed boxed of work in progress that include Renaissance Pikemen and Prussian Napoleonic Jaegers

 Here are my most frequently used paints. As you can see I use a variety of manufacture's products. 

 Box of random figures that will get painted at some point. 

 Some Indian Mutiny figures that I have been doing a little bit to every now and then.

 Now for some recently finished units. These are Polish Infantry. The figures are from Elite Miniatures 

 The Grenadier Company can be seen here with t he red plumes on their Shako. The Light Company are behind them with Green and Yellow plumes

 The drummer keeps them in step. The unit still needs a flag.

 The next few pictures are of Prussian Field Officers to go with the small force of Prussians I built 2014-15

 Prussian Landwehr feature heavily in my army 

 Some have grey uniform coats like this others are in Prussian Blue.

 Some work needed with this Line Officer to cover the support for the horse.

 Prussian ADC

 Trooper to support the General figure

 I have also finished some French Heavy Cavalry Field Officers. This is Milhauld of the 4th Reserve Cavalry Corps

 L'Heritier of the 11th Cavalry Division 

 The best figure of the set is Kellermann of the 3rd Reserve Cavalry Corps.

 I have also finished 12 Prussian Hussars from the 10th Regiment 

 These are Perry Figures

 The Trumpeter can be seen here with reversed colours Sky Blue and Green rather than Green and Sky Blue