The Great Plastics Revival - More British

 Some touching up and rebasing sees some Italeri Highlanders (always thought that these figures looked a bit odd) and another ESCI Royal Horse Artillery gun and crew. These will now join the growing British plastic army:

The Great Plastic Revival - Prussian Cavalry

 This is the third batch of Prussians to be completed, in this case the cavalry.  When I went through the boxes there were lots of cavalry in odd colours, mainly white and gree.  I think they were supposed to be part of the Austrian army, however, they did not look quite right.

On closer inspection I worked out that, apart from some Revell black hussars and early war Revell Cuirassiers, the bulk were in fact ESCI/Italeri British Scots Greys wearing oilskin shako covers. I thought that with a dab of paint they could be passed off as Prussian dragoons.  Here is the result:

From a couple of feet away they don't look to out of place.

Next, I might tackle some of the Airfix Prussian Landwehr, but these are completely unpainted and will take a little longer.

The Great Plastics Revival 3 - French Cavalry

 The bank holiday provided the perfect opportunity to deal with one of the biggest projects of the plastics revival.  I decided to tackle most of the French cavalry.  They were in a bit of a state and some needed a bit of repair work and all required rebasing.  In all I found nine regiments. Here they are en masse:

Two regiments of dragoons (Italeri):

Two regiments of Airfix Cuirassiers:

HaT lancers and Italeri hussars:

HaT Guard Marmelukes and Horse Grenadiers:

And Italeri Cuirassiers:

There are another three or four regiments to paint, but these require quite a bit of work.

Some more Ancients

 Last night, I finished off a group of Italeri Celts.  They were really nice to paint, with sharp definition and very clean lines.  

I also managed to find a small group of the elusive HaT African Infantry for my Carthaginian army.  This was really a test paint as I have now found a complete box of these figures which are already on the painting table.  I may repaint these as I think the armour should be bronze rather than leather and the shields look a bit bland:

Finally, four Romans came with the Carthaginians and they have received a splash of paint:

Italeri Romans

 Another unit is added to my 54mm Ancient armies.  This time it is a group of Romans by Italeri, painted with speed paints over a couple of evenings.

I am currently working on more HaT figures, including some Carthaginian African Heavy infantry.