So another post in quick succession but it’s a bit of an aside from painting, which I can assure it is continuing, 2nd Grenz battalion has the base colours and washes applied tonight so onto faces and highlight colours.

But I digress.

Recently on TMP I read a post about wargaming podcasts. It lead me to two Podcasts one is the Napoleon Podcast, very good though a tad pro French the presenters have a very good style and present the session in a conversation format that is easy to listen to.

http://napoleon.thepodcastnetwork.com/

The other is Noisemaker, by an American which is a general chat about wargaming, its in its infancy but is a nice listen to and I recommend you try both out.

http://www.noisemaker.libsyn.com/index.php?post_category=podcasts

Anyway back to the painting desk!

 

Happy New Year to everyone and thus we enter 2009!

Well with all new years there are resolutions and plans, this is year I don't plan to miss out! In May we should see Littlewars Melbourne take place again and thus I plan, with the help of my fellow gamers to put on Sacile at 1:20 scale, well the defence of the town of Porcia to be exact.

Sacile interests me as a battle because 1st it does not include any of the heavy weights of the period and to boot is an austrian victory!

The battle itself has recieved some press in the past and has had the treatment by arnold and now Gill in the 2nd volume of thunder on the danube. The scenario I'm working on will focus on the part of the battle where Eugene could have won but lost the battle as well.

The scenario which when i put the final touches to will be for both GDB and i Plan to make a version of LFS by the two fat lardies ( a nice set of rules ive recently come to like from several reads). The scenario will show a french army superior in infantry take on a austrain army with superior numbers in cavalry and artillery. My hope is that it will be fun, challengeing and look bloody good!

Anyway there is allot of painting to complete between here and may, not to mention terrain as well, but as a 1st up here is the 1st battalion of the Ottocac Grenz. These guys are in the pre 1808 regulation but then there was a very slow change over to the brown uniform and so to add variety i though a grenz battalion in white would be a good offset to the ones in brown.

Anyway 2nd battalion is undercoated and the base colour for the trousers is on, after that plan to do the outstanding artillery batteries in bulk and then get to grips with some more Hussars!

Anyway I wish one and all a Successful new year in either reducing the lead pile or increasing it!

After braving the christmas shopping and so on, i focused down on one of the buildings to get the colours right and the details for the rest of the buildings to follow right.

Must sat very very pleased with the result. So a recap of the prodcuts. The building I obtained from Eureka Minatures in Australia, and the walls from Rusus http://www.rusus.de.vu/ as well as the shed and shrine, water trough and dirt heap.

Enjoy the pics will have ones of the other completed buildings as I get to them.

Cheers and a Merry christmas.

 

 

 

 

Another quick update,

One of the models is now starting to take shape and I want to document the progress.

Of note im using textured paint from battleground accessories and paints from vallejo and citadel, as well as the washes from citadel.

cheers

 

 

Merry Christmas all

So a few updates,

Began work on a town the 1st components are pictured will all have some more closer grouped buildings and a church as well. Must send a shout out to the company Rusus Gelandebau for thier Bella Italia range of building, here im using thier stucco walls and town bits, the buildings are from Eureka minatures just because i think they are fantastic buildings!

And the 1st of the final grenz regiment for now! So much to paint so little time!

anyway cheers

 

 

A small update to share a new product I found and that I've place an order for.

You know when your basing you want to get those larger tufts of grass and the pain it is to do those with the loose grass you can buy well no longer a compnay called Silflor

http://www.barrule.com/Workshop/scratch%20builders%20paradise/Silflor.html

have come up with an easy solution and I tell you what it looks grand i've placed an order and will let you know how it goes but I have very high hopes.

Also been trawling through the happy shots from the big game in april and thought i would share some.

Some units from the past

Hessian Chevauleger and Legion du Midi