Realisation!!!!!

 2024 is not too old and I have come to the conclusion that I have too many unpainted figures!! Unreal I know but that's the truth!  Like most wargamers I buy way too many figures and have them sitting in a pile waiting to get round to them, but this year something is going to change!

I am not going to buy any new lead until I paint what I have, into my 18th projects and I have a tonne of bare metal, so enough to keep me busy for most of the year,when finished then I can buy what figures I need to round of projects or ad new units.  I also have enough Carlist War  bare metal to keep me going for a while before I will need to purchase the outstanding units required.

The only things I will be buying will be ready painted "old school" ECW for that project and that is only when I find the right figures, these usually only require a bit of touching up and rebasing, so not much work required there.

Hopefully I can stick to this and reduce the lead mountain and finally finish some units and maybe even some projects!! Fingers crossed!!  

A new year.....

 Well here we go, the first post of 2024, I had a bit of lack of motivation in the first week of the new year, I had painted up the first 10mm Prussians but found them a hard go, nice figures from OG but I really did not enjoy painting them, put them away back in their box and will look at them another time.  This put me off really starting anything else so the first week of the new year saw nothing done. This past Sunday saw me finally enthused enough to start a new unit and it is a 16 man regiment for my Piedmontese project, Keller a Swiss regiment in the pay of Piedmont, nice uniform, blue and red always go well together in my opinion.  I have also another 16 man Saxon unit primed ready for paint to be daubed on once Keller are done, plus a 9 man Saxon cuirassier primed and ready.  I think I can safely say my mojo has returned!!

Christmas time!!!

 Well just a small update on what's been happening up here in the far north, hopefully you all got loads of hobby related presents and are enthused for the new year ahead!

I have been doing a bit of work on my First Carlist War project with a 16 man Isabelina unit done and 2 guns and crews for them done also, two line squadrons of cavalry and another four units of infantry on the bench awaiting their turn but they may have to wait their turn as another project hits the table!

I have had a load of Old Glory 10mm Prussians for the SYW primed and read for months but have not done anymore than that but I feel it is time to get this project on the go and so they have jumped up the queue and come away from the pile of shame!!

I'm not going to make any resolutions or promises for the coming year as I know only too well that the butterfly will take me to who knows where!!

More Christmas goodies

 

Here are a couple of more purchases for my old school ECW project, under the Christmas tree for opening on the day itself.  A nicely painted squadron of horse and a regiment of shot with command and a couple of extra pikemen by the look of it, all Hinchliffe and bar from a bit of tidying up they should be good to go. The shot may need to be gloss varnished by the look of the picture but that's easily enough to do.

I should have enough now for three or four pike and shot regiments and the first of the cavalry, all in all a good start to my project and something to look forward to when the big day arrives!!

Latest purchase

 

Bought this little lot of ebay, and very happy I am with them. I have a load of Empress lovely ECW figures but really fancy doing some "old school" style gaming for this period. Hinchliffe figures were the first metal ones I ever bought so this is the way I am going.  They look to be painted decently and bar some tidying up they will do as is.

Watching another couple of items on ebay that finish early next week so fingers crossed I will get them as well.  The ones I won cost £14.99 plus postage so pretty decent haul for that money.

A weeks work

 Well it has been a week of work for me and it has been pretty productive. On real life issues, the boiler got it's annual service and I got my flu and covid shots, so that was about it for real duty!  On to hobby time, due to some rather dreich  weather I could indulge myself without any guilt about not pottering about in the garden!!

My weeks work has seen me batter on with my Continental infantry units, I finished off one 16 man hunting shirt unit, one 12 man hunting shirt unit and one 16 man red face blue unit. Also very nearly finished is a white faced blue coated unit and another 12 man in hunting shirts.  This will leave another two 16 man units, one in brown coats white faced and one in blue with buff, this will give me 10 units, six 16 men units and four 12 men units. This will leave two more units of militia to do, both probably 12 me units. Once the infantry is all done I will have a couple of cavalry squadrons, a couple of guns and crews and then a command stand and this army will be all done and dusted.

Off course that leaves the Brits and allies to do, but that is a whole different story!!

Something different!

 

Something a bit different for me, just purchased a 3D printed unit of Trolls for a new project, 10mm fantasy! I have also just purchased an army pack of Khmer from Irregular Miniatures, 100 piece army for £21 including postage, to turn out as a sort of fantasy Asian contingent.  I am going to add some more 3D units as I go, first being some Hobgoblin cavalry and infantry, with the Trolls they should give the Khmer a decent go!!