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.
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.
ReplyDeletelol JBM. It takes a lot to get me to learn!
DeletePlanning and buying is an important and satisfying step in the process. Savor it. There will be time for painting later.
ReplyDeleteThanks 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 😂
DeleteNO merchant would enable that. It would kill sales instantly.
Deleteso true Dave 😂
Deletebatch painting is your friend. it gets tedious, but the best way to assembly line paint a bunch of figures.
ReplyDeleteand you do eventually learn that children are more work than fun, but hardly ever with miniatures! 😁
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 😂
DeleteThat is an impressive looking collection Ben....enjoy the painting, I will follow with interest!
ReplyDeleteThanks Keith. Hopefully it will be all over by Christmas 😁
DeleteLooking forward to seeing your completed armies in action Ben, what rules are you going to use for your Napoleonic games?
ReplyDeleteThanks Captain. I am going to use Neil Thomas's Napoleonic Wargaming rules. Hopefully simple enough for my brain!
DeleteI must say I've been tempted by some 6mm napoleonics myself. There's a youtube channel, the crusty colonel, that has some good looking games on the Russian front. Hopefully your project will cure me of this urge. Colored primer to get started?
ReplyDeleteDave I think 6mm may have been a better idea! But I have been standardising on 10mm. In the past I have been starting with a colour primer but have moved to contrast paints so will start with white. Hopefully it goes OK. My League of Augsburg came out OK (by my standards anyway)
DeleteThanks for the suggestion of Crusty Colonel, I will check him out although my current three armies are just Dutch, French and British. If all goes well I might expand to the "ians".... Prussians, Austrians and Russians but this will be a few years away. 😂
Ben, I would aim to paint just a few French infantry first and get one of the Quatre Bras engagements onto the table for some early gaming, while other things get painted. An attack against one of the smaller farms might work well.
ReplyDeleteThanks Norm, that is a great idea. A small OHW army is easy to assemble and get on the table.
DeleteWill look forward to seeing it happen!
ReplyDeleteThanks Simon
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