Monday 6 June 2016

A Few More Crimean War French and British off the Painting Table

The holiday weekend has seen the competion of few Crimean War units - the second and third battalions of my first French Infantry regiment and two British guns, a 6-pounder and a 9-pounder. All figures are Great War MIniatures.


Above, all theee battions in column of battalions
In the image above, the 9-pounder is on the left, the 6-pounder on the right.
9-pounder
6-pounder
Above and below, the 9-pounder

The completion of these sees the lead pile levelled. There are are lots of things or order; three regiments of the Light Brigade, a battalion of British line infantry, a battalion of Rifles, four battalions ofRussian infantry, a battery of Cossack artillery and of figures for a new project that I shall describe at a later date, but annoyingly they are a long time arriving - one of the disadvantages of living 12,000 miles away from the supplier!

12 comments:

  1. Very fine work, Mark! Your CW project is moving along at a rapid clip.

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    1. Thanks Jonathan, but I am feeling a bit hamstrung at present without any Raw material on hand.

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  2. They're looking great. Your photo stage works really well too! There are times of the year when it seems to take a lot longer for things to deliver to NZ. Christmas is obvious but I'm not too sure why it's happening at the moment. It took about 5 days longer than normal for my last orders to show up.

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    1. Thanks Nathan. The Light Brigade figures were ordered a full six weeks ago. Even back in the late '70s (in the days pre-email) when orders Went by airmail, I would expect a three week turnaround, so six weeks is a bit extreme!

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    1. Thanks Mark...just want those other parcels to arrive!

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  4. Excellent job, most impressive infantry!

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    1. Thanks Phil, I am looking forward to doing some more innthe coming months.

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  5. Excellent paintwork Mark!

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    1. Thanks Rodger, the project is really starting to take some shape now. I hope that by the end of this month I can actually play a game with these armies.

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  6. The collection just goes from strength to strength! Lovely work

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    1. Thanks Russ. I just added some Cossack artillery last night that should be based and photographed during the week.

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