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Wednesday, 9 July 2025

What have I done!

 As usual, an epic plan finally comes to realisation, and I have to confront the enormity of my decision. 

I decided that I needed to build armies for the  Napoleonic period. The small Dutch army has already been completed and obviously I need a much larger French army to beat them plus the purchased British army.

You plan an army or a new period and it is all fun and games until you have the figures ready for painting and you realise the job you have ahead of you.

So here it is:


300 Line Infantry        10 units of 30

55 Skirmishers              5 units of 11

60 Cavalry                    4 units of 15

9 Guns with 36 crew.

5 Command stands.

Optimistically, based on my speedy painting of the League of Augsburg armies, this should only take three months, give or take a year 🤣

One day I will think about it before I place the order, but not yet!

It is a bit like having children. "We are going to have so much fun playing with them." 

Somewhere and sometime there must be someone who knows what they are doing, it is NOT me. 😂

Expect to see a whole lot of poorly painted French Napoleonic's on the blog for the next six months.


8 comments:

  1. Tee hee…you’re going to be a VERY busy boy! I was going to add « that’ll teach you » but I suspect it won’t. Lol.

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    1. lol JBM. It takes a lot to get me to learn!

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  2. Planning and buying is an important and satisfying step in the process. Savor it. There will be time for painting later.

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    1. Thanks Jonathan. The planning and buying are certainly the easiest steps, I wish when you fill your cart at the internet store, it gave you an estimate of how long it will take to paint them 😂

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  3. batch painting is your friend. it gets tedious, but the best way to assembly line paint a bunch of figures.
    and you do eventually learn that children are more work than fun, but hardly ever with miniatures! 😁

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    1. I am planning on painting them by units. It worked well for my LOA armies, it is just when I lined up the French I realised how many units I have 😂

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  4. That is an impressive looking collection Ben....enjoy the painting, I will follow with interest!

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    1. Thanks Keith. Hopefully it will be all over by Christmas 😁

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