Back to the Beginning

 It's been a while since I got back to the main reason I started this blog, which was to document the progress of the Borodino project for 2012.  That project is long done, and I hate to say was also somewhat disappointing in how it played at Historicon.

I have enjoyed my various diversions since then, and I'm really enjoying the Cold War era shenanigans with the Eurica campaign right now.

But Napoleonic's are how I really entered the hobby, and it is about time I got back to them.  (Plus, the Russian Troops were plotting a Palace Uprising since most of the Napoleonic I've painted the last several years were French - and the Czar doesn't like Palace Uprisings). My initially plan was to build the entire Russian 2nd Army of the West as it was structured for Borodino.  I'm not sure that I'm still that ambitious at this point in my life, but I do have a fair amount of unpainted Front Rank Figures laying around.  

So.....  

It's been so long since I painted a unit of these I almost forgot how.  Figures are Front Rank.  Flags are GMB.

1st Battalion

I may have gotten a little heavy handed with the magic wash on these fellows

3rd Battalion

Not my best work, but I had fun painting them.  

Until next time, take care.

So much lead, so little time.

Well, that's different

 Happy Summer!  Not much going on regarding the gaming front, but I did manage to find a rather unique (at least I think so) figure when I was digging out my Russians.  

This fellow has been getting stepped over (and on) for probably about 10 years. So he definitely deserved to get some paint slapped on him.  I thought the figure was from Black Tree Designs, but I just did a quick search of their site and couldn't find it, so I'm not sure where it came from.

He may have some potential uses in our Imagination campaign.

And for something a little less unique, we finish with these.  I have no idea who the manufacturer is and wouldn't want to guess.

Next up, some proper painting of a proper figures.

So much lead, so little time