ALY MORRISON'S "BUTTERFLY" ADVENTURES IN THE WORLD OF WARGAMES AND TOY SOLDIERS

Saturday, 21 September 2024

Shiny Napoleonics… The Thuringian Battalion… Part 3

Hurrah!…

Another stand painted…

This unit has really been like pulling teeth… I honestly don’t understand why it has taken me so long…

But here they are…

The Coburg Contingent…




They have been pretty much painted in the same way as the Weimar Continent but with Evil Sunz Scarlet turnbacks and white belts…

https://alystoysoldiers.blogspot.com/2024/08/shiny-napoleonics-thuringian-battalion.html

All I have to do now is the command stand… which is in a very Prussian looking uniform…

Hopefully this won’t take too long…

As I write this Nottingham is in the middle of an incredible full on thunder, lightning and rain storm…

The rain is quite literally flailing the back of my house… I opened the back door to try and watch the lightning… but I had to close it because my shoes were getting soaked…

That will be the end of summer then…

I blinked and missed it 🤣…

All the best    Aly


Tuesday, 17 September 2024

Shiny Napoleonics… The next Building.

Greetings…

Here is the next of my new buildings…

Decoster’s House…

Once again from Sarissa Precision…

https://sarissa-precision.com/products/decosters-house-15mm

From their 15mm Napoleonic Range…

Another nice easy to build model… And fun to do…

This was painted more or less the same way as the previous buildings…But this time I used Citadel Deepkin Flesh for the walls…

It’s a nice colour… I may have to use it again.

The mojo and butterfly seem to be in harmony at the moment 🤣🦋🤣🦋…Hurrah!

A few more buildings have been ordered…

All the best.   Aly

Sunday, 15 September 2024

Shiny Napoleonics… Another Building.

Greetings…

Here is the next of my new buildings…

As with the previous one this is also from Sarissa Precision 

https://sarissa-precision.com/products/low-country-cottage-15mm

A nice little Low Country Cottage… Very easy to assemble and a joy to paint.

I have painted it in the same style as my earlier buildings…

https://alystoysoldiers.blogspot.com/2021/09/shiny-napoleonics-my-first-building.html

I might get another one of these as I think they could be useful for creating a small village.

I can certainly feel the warm glow of hobby mojo rising in my heart 😁…

 ( of course it could also be the cheese I ate last night)…

Another building coming soon…

All the best.   Aly

Tuesday, 10 September 2024

Shiny Napoleonics… A New Building.

Greetings…

Well… It’s been a few weeks since I’ve posted anything…

I really lost my painting mojo for a bit… So I thought I would just try and clear some bits and pieces that I had had on the desk for a while…I did a bit … But it did nothing for the mojo.

So I’ve done something different…

I’ve been building and painting some more 15mm (scale) MDF Buildings for my Shiny Napoleonic project… And I have thoroughly enjoyed myself.

Here is the first…

A nice Central European Church from Sarissa…

I replaced the MDF dome with a similar sized wooden bead and put some thin card behind the window openings.

The figure is a Minifigs S Range mounted officer…

As I have said before… I like my buildings to have a modest sized footprint so 15mm buildings with 20mm figures works well for me…

This was a lot of fun… I had forgotten how much I like making terrain… I have a couple more on the go.

As they ( who ever they are) say a change is as good as a holiday.

This was painted very much in the same way as my first 15mm building…

https://alystoysoldiers.blogspot.com/2021/09/shiny-napoleonics-my-first-building.html

The main difference being that the walls were painted with Citadel Administratum Grey… With was lightly highlighted with an Administratum and Palid Wych Flesh mix.

The building was from here…

https://sarissa-precision.com/products/european-church-15mm

Next up will probably be… Another building.


All the best   Aly