French Infantry

 I have started merging my Warrior army with that painted by Jeffers.  From my collection, rebased and reorganised, I have sorted out eight battalions, a battery and a general to command them all.  It makes up quite a nice division size formation, with a mix of line light and a grenadier battalion.

There are are four line fusiler, one grenadier, one voltigeur and two light battalions.

I know that my structure does not accurately reflect the real French organisation as I have pooled my voltigeurs and grenadiers into battalions.  In reality this would have been companies, which I don't think would work with 12 figure units:

The difference between my figures and those from Jef's collection are the flags.  I use the original cast flags on my figures, while Jef has replaced his with paper flags. You will see this on the next batch of infantry figures. Also Jef's figures are better painted than mine!

25mm Warrior Miniatures French Army - The Light Cavalry

 Another phase in the merging of two armies and rebasing is complete. This time it is the French light cavalry. Consisting of three light lancer regiments, two of chasseurs and two of hussars, they make a splendid sight on the table. Also, another horse artillery battery joins the army.

A closer look at the lancers:

One of the chasseur regiments:

The stunning hussars:

And, finally the horse artillery:

I have started on the infantry, which I hope will prove to be an easier task than rebasing the Austrians. I should mention that the majority of the excellent painting is by Jeffers and I am simply tinkering around edges.

Another blast from the past.... Westland Lysander 1/72

 As I mentioned before, I have been going through some old memory sticks and have found a few old pictures from around 2008.  This one stood out as i had forgotten about it and recalled the fun I had painting the model and the figures.  The aircraft is depicted as having landed at a jungle airstrip to drop off supplies and pick up a wounded soldier. 

The aircraft is a Westland Lysander, probably Airfix with Far East markings.  I think the kit originally had a spy figure in a trench coat!

The figures are a mix of Airfix, Revell and Matchbox.  The observer's head was turned to the right to give the impression that he is watching the loading operation.

The settting is just a textured board with a picture of a jungle scene downloaded from the internet.

And so it begins ... 25mm Warrior Miniatures French Army - The Heavy Cavalry

 Last week I started rebasing the French Army, having more or less completed work on the Austrians. However, in the case of the French, I am adding units from my existing French Army, suitably based to match the Jeffers collection figures.

The first batch consists of the French line heavy cavalry.  The combined total is, five regiments of Cuirassiers, one of Carabiniers and four of dragoons. There is also a horse battery.

Currently Marshal Ney is in command.  This was a clever conversion carried out by Jeffers, who is also responsible for most of the painting.

Mystery Figure

 Does anybody know what this figure represents?  It is almost certainly a Miniature Figurines S Range sculpt and is 25mm.  I am thinking Mongol?  There is no catalogue number either on top of or underneath the base.

1/72 Plastic Ancient Egyptian Army

 Whilst wading through the sea of white as I rebased the whole of my Warrior Austrians, I painted small groups of plastic 1/72 scale Egyptians. The figures are mostly Atlantic, with a few Zvezda items to make up numbers.

The army consists of 10 chariots, four archer units, six of infantry and a command with escort:

The figures are all quite roughly painted using Speed Paints, but they stand up to the one foot rule. Next, some Hittites.

Some old pictures

 I was going through an old memory stick when I found some old pictures of Airfix 1/76 figures set in the Western Desert.  I must have painted these around 2009 when I was working overseas and had lots of spare evenings. They are a mix of Aifix 8th Army, Afrika Korps and the Bren Gun Carrier with 6pdr:

I think these old figures can be made to look quite attractive with a lick of paint.