Hello and welcome to April! The temperature has dropped about 12C today so sitting beside the gas fire writing this post sees like a splendid use of time.
Almost finished today on the painting bench are these four strips of 6mm Napoleonic Polish Uhlans, who will soon I hope be crossing lances with Russian Cossacks in one of the opening battles of the 1812 invasion.
The figures are from MC Miniatures, the brainchild of Marco Campagna of Genoa, Italy. Marco’s 6mm strips are ideal for mass-producing units, and is my go-to for my current rules interest, LaSalle2, which requires four bases for each unit. They have just enough detail to satisfy, but are simple enough to paint en masse. I printed these on an Elegoo Mars 2 machine. Hopefully done before I go to bed, and then they can report to the Basing Depot.
Also recently hot off the Mars printer are these strips of Austrian grenadiers, also MC Minis prints. These fellows will be getting blue trousers, just because the blue and white Hungarian uniform is such a classic look and should pop on the table. It may be another week before these chaps are finished.
What’s on your painting desk?
Cheers and blessings to your brushes,
MP+
A US Armoured Brigade for the early 1980s, after which I need to return to 6mm SYW and Napoleonics.
ReplyDeleteOh, I would like to see that US Brigade, sounds like a Cold War Gone Hot project?
DeleteNicely done Michael, I have thought for many years about 6mm Napoleonics although I’m not ready for a new project yet and certainly don’t want to print them myself. On my painting desk are the 43rd Monmouthshire Light Infantry for the Peninsular 🙂
ReplyDeleteThank you Matt. I chose 6mm because I wanted to do Napoleonics but at a later age felt that it was the best sale to get started in at my then advanced age, but now, at a slightly more advanced age, I find myself drifting towards Naps in 28mm, so who knows? I look forward to seeing the 43rd on your blog, I shall go visit and see if they've shown up yet!
DeleteVery nice! I really like those figures, they give a good impression of mass.
ReplyDeleteThanks Thomas, yes, four stands of these guys together looks like a big battalion for sure!
DeleteNicely done. You seem to have taken a lot of care with those. I love my H&R Napoleonics. Next thing on my desk with be some cardstock buildings.
ReplyDeleteHello Khusru and I'm very glad that you made it to my little blog. I've follower your Five Parsecs blog and hope to get to know you better.
DeleteThank you for your kind comment! I've never actually seen H&R Napoleonics, I'd be most curious to see how they compare to Adler or my usual, Baccus.
Cardstock buildings are always useful, I have a lot of the stuff from Paper Terrain.
Cheers, Michael
They look good indeed. Are there many changes to the new edition of Lasalle? I played the first many years ago, but as usual, my gaming group shifted attention to other projects and never more
ReplyDeleteHi Benito: I never played the first ed of LaSalle so sadly I can't comment. I am generally a fan of Sam Mustafa's stuff, I find that while the scales between LaSalle (regimental) and Blucher (brigade/division) are quite different, the core mechanics are very similar and highly playable. I would rate LaSalle higher than TFL's General d'armee for playability.
DeleteVery nice! Like the strips, makes for easier painting I'm sure.
ReplyDeleteOn the desk are some tree bases and more fences for my Winter table to help fill out my options.
Hello Dai:
DeleteThe strip design comes hot off the printer and does make them easier to paint: most of the fussy detail goes into the figures on either end, but there's something about these figures that rewards even a little extra effort when they are presented en masse.
I can see why you'd want more winter terrain. ;)
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