Step 6.6 Toy Soldiering On. . .

The current 36 figures getting various silver details added., including a further nine men and horses, slated to join the regiment late in September.

Inspired by yesterday's lively online meeting of the Virtual Wargaming Club, I stole down here to Zum Stollenkeller for two sessions yesterday afternoon and again for about an hour in the evening. A nice brown highlight for the visible parts of musket stocks and picket stakes carried by the enlisted dragoon troopers followed by all but six of their swords in the evening.

Plans for today include applying silver to the final six swords before moving onto the stirrups and the sword hilts in and around the right hands of 27 figures. If that goes well, we'll see where the painting muse takes me next.

At the far left, you'll observe the pending horse grenadiers, colonel, and regimental trumpeter (an errant Frenchman pressed into Austrian service). These nine figures will have to wait until their brethren have been finished and glossed before I start on them, and very likely that will be sometime in the second half of September.

The addition of these nine figures will take the three-squadron regiment from a total of 36 men and horses to a nice, round total of 45 each. This unit seems to be taking on a life of its own, folks. Clearly I have delusions of grandeur. We can blame several photographs of Peter Gilder's Napoleonic lancers, hussars, cuirassiers, and ACW cavalry in those first dozen or so issues of Miniature Wargames way back when.

-- Stokes

Comments

Big Andy said…

What an impossibly tidy painting area you do keep! Mine seems to look like the first day on the Somme by comparison !

2:57 AM

Thomo the Lost said…

I am impressed both with the tidy hobby area and more importantly, the ability to keep focused on one project at a time. I would have the extra nine half painted by now and looking for a third set of figures to start on before even finishing the third set.

10:14 PM

Duke of Baylen said…

It's nice to watch the steady progress. I'm in awe of you doing so many all at the same time. I think 12 infantry figures is my maximum.
Stephen

11:49 AM

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