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Friday, 3 January 2025

War in Canis, Plans are afoot.....

 Well I emailed Alternative Armies with the first three units I want painted up by them, 2 line and 1 grenadier units, the two line will be red faced green and red face yellow while the grenadiers will be red faced dark blue, this will give me a good start to the red army.

That allows me to start on some of the unpainted figures I have and I think a squadron of 10 curassiers, just needing to work out the uniform for them. Will get a photo of the Hussars that I got before Christmas from AA, they are really very nice and a good start to this project.

The next thing is to try and work out a back story to the whole thing, countries, maps, campaigns and what rules to us, exciting times!!

4 comments:

  1. Creating the back story is always interesting and generates lots of ideas which have to be put in some semblance of order.

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    1. Spot on Peter, getting the whole background into some sort of shape is an interesting process and takes on a life on it's own.

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  2. I'm interested in seeing where you go with this. My own background is buried on my other blog. I started by naming all the sides involved. Enjoy the process.

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    1. Your blog has been a real source of inspiration for me, it really is quite superb and a great read.

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