Still fighting...

Hi, after nearly one year a new post... Indeed I was busy and my hobby was placed in 2nd line. However, as I shall show in the next posts, I wasn't completely idle.

Today I'll show "where the action is" and some appetizers from the next post I planned. First of all, my workplace:

on the left the Italeri French Napoleonic Dragoons on the pipeline, whereas on the table some 6mm and the Hat French Light Infantry...never told about my 1/72 plastic Napoleonics?

This is my small Military History/Uniformology/Wargame & Boardgame library. However most of the data I have are digitalized: I think i'll be forgiven if I don't post a picture of an Hard-disk....

To finish the post, two pictures of my plastic (with some lead) 1/72 Napoleonic collection. It has a nice story. I started to paint plastic napoleonic in 1976 when on the market there was only a limited choice by Airfix. The collection was "reinforced" by some 25mm Minifigs. Then the collection took dust for many years, mainly because I was concentrated on the 6mm project. (take note: I am not  a "fast painter"...). The final "coup" was when in 2002 the 1/72 minis were vandalized by my 3 y.o. son...their resting place was a bag.

Then in 2006 I took them from the bag and with my surprise I realized that they were "not so badly destroyed". Surprisingly, the Humbrol paint survived and the damage was recoverable. It took two years to restore the whole group. What we can see is the original collection with the newcomers, painted after 2006 and mainly Hat, Zvedza, Strelets and Esci/Italeri.

I'll post the various regiments in detail, sooner or later. Today a "group picture": say "cheese"....

More to come....

New Year Resolutions

Well, this time I want to start the New Year by setting some "realistic" goals:

(i) To complete the Reichsarmee for Volley and Bayonet. Thus far I have done a sizeable Imperial contingent. To complete the lot I need to paint the following units:


IR Alt-Wurttemberg
IR Furstenberg
IR Nassau-Weilburg
IR Pfalz-Zweibrücken
IR Herzoglich Sächsisches (Weimar, Saxe-Coburg and Hildburghausen)
IR Munster (IR Elverfeldt (1 batt.) + IR Nagel (1 batt.))
IR Kurkoln (Leib-IR Nothaft (1 batt.)+IR Wildenstein (1 batt.));

the last three unit being composite "regiment" in the game format formed by battalions from different units: in particular the Herzoglich Sächsisches Regiment has three different uniforms, the difference between the Koln and Munster battalions being lost in 6mm.

I left out the Pfalz-Hussars (60-70 gentlemen: they shall appear as orderly in the Prince of Zweibrucken command base) and the undistinguished Sachsen-Gotha dragoons, only 200 and therefore below the V&B scale.

Indeed the first two of the list and Kurkoln are already finished and need only to be flocked and photographed...

(ii) To prepare a scenario for the battles of Korbitz and Strehla, two battles were the Reichsarmee was involved together with an Austrian contingent against inferior Prussian forces. A nice scenario for the latter can be found here.

(iii) To play the scenarios and put the pictures and the battle reports on the blog.

(iv) To take pictures of my Napoleonic 20mm in plastic and put them here....

(v) To try Maurice, at least in the Lite version.

Well, the goals are enough given the few spare time I have (indeed one never has enough spare time...).

And now something of completely different....

Long absent for manifold reasons, just an appetizer. Never told you about my 20mm plastic napoleonics?

French Carabiniers, before 1810, Strelets.