The Hundred Days… Imperial Guard Chasseurs…Basing.

Greetings….

While waiting for my various eye operations to heal I have amassed/assembled a fair number of units for this project…

Some if not many I will paint myself… But I decided a good way to kick start things would to get my good chum Mark at Over Open Sights to paint a unit for me…

http://over-open-sights.blogspot.com/2025/09/vive-l-empereur.htmlOver Open Sights: Vive L' Empereur!

He has of course done a marvellous job…

The figures are a made from mix of Perry Miniatures French early and Late Line Infantry with some Green Stuff additions…

https://www.perry-miniatures.com/product/fn100-plastic-french-napoleonic-infantry/FN100 Plastic French Napoleonic Infantry - Perry Miniatures

https://www.perry-miniatures.com/product/fn260-elite-companies-french-infantry-1807-14/FN260 Elite Companies, French Infantry 1807-14 - Perry Miniatures

The bases are as always…

https://warbases.co.uk/

The Standard is from GMB Designs…

https://gmbdesigns.com/GMB Designs – Flags and Standards in Miniature

My butterfly is delighted…

No idea where it is taking me next 😁

All the best.  Aly

Lion Rampant… Rus - Khazars

Greetings…

At last the first unit of Rus is finished for this project… And the first unit since my eye operations.

It feels really good to get back to painting and seeing a unit ready for battle…

I have kept the colour scheme fairly simple for these as I didn’t want to put too much stress on the new peepers… I may add a bit more decoration on the next batch.

The Tunics are… Citadel… Pallid Wytch Flesh. White Shirts and Tunics seem to be popular with the Rus so it was an easy choice.

The Trousers are… AK Interactive… AK11094 Bordeaux.

The Armour and Metal bits are… AK Interactive… AK11210 Natural Steel.

The Leather Goods and such are a mixture of different suitable Browns and Tans.

Everything was given a wash of Aly’s Brown Liquid and then re-highlighted with the original shade.

The figures are from Victrix…

https://www.victrixlimited.com/products/rus

The paints are Citadel and AK Interactive…

https://www.games-workshop.com/en-GB/Painting-Modelling

https://ak-interactive.com/product-category/paints/paints-acrylics/3rd-acrylics/

The bases are as always…

https://warbases.co.uk/

The Banner is from Little Big Men Studios…

https://www.littlebigmenstudios.com/

Probably something completely different next time… My Butterfly has free reign at the moment.

All the best.   Aly

Some much needed basing… Dads Army.

Greetings…

There lovely chaps have been waiting to get their bases for a while…

It feels good to get them done… I quite enjoy basing so it was a nice easy but productive fix…

Dastardly German Paratroopers…

The brave Home Guard…

The (Suspicious Looking)Locals…

The figures are all from Wargames Foundry…

https://www.wargamesfoundry.com/collections/world-war-two

And they were all painted buy my very talented friend Mark Hargreaves from Over Open Sights.

http://over-open-sights.blogspot.com/Over Open Sights

Next up … A bit more Basing.

All the best.   Aly

So… I’ve painted something.

Hurrah!

Greetings…

Yes indeed I have actually painted something…

It is a Victrix Miniatures Rus…

I must say it’s a real joy to have a paintbrush in my hand and be able to see what I am doing…

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Personally I think it could be a bit neater… but I would… wouldn’t I…🤣

I am looking forward to getting more done… That Lead/Plastic Alp won’t paint itself…More’s the pity.

All the best   Aly

I got myself a Magnifying Light….

Greetings…

I thought I would see if a magnifying light will be of some help until I get both eye’s sorted and new reading glasses bought…

I been trying it out when cleaning up plastic bits and assembling figures…. It took a bit of getting used to but it does help a bit… I am wondering if a larger lens area make things easier.

I don’t think I will be using it for painting miniatures at the moment… As I have no real depth of field.

I can possibly see me using it in the future…

I know a few people who use magnifiers of some sort… They have said it took them a bit to get used to but now they don’t know what they would do without them…

This is all new to me 😁

All the best.   Aly

Surprise Surprise… More Books.

Greetings…

More books…

I picked these up in Waterstones…

To be honest they are not much what I thought I would find interesting…

But they are indeed….

Classic Osprey…

A good background history about the development of the weapon, Lots of good pictures and Artwork…

Especially stuff from my favourite illustrator and friend Peter Dennis…

There are more books in this series covering different weapons… so very tempting.

My eyesight is definitely improving… The left eye is going to be operated on…on the 27th of the month 

And then hopefully things will start to get back to normal…

Hurrah!

All the best.  Aly

And…. Yet More New Books

Greetings …

Napoleon’s Heavy Cavalry and Napoleon’s Dragoons and Lancers…

Yup!…

It was always going to happen…

And of course they are everything that I’ve come to expect from Mr Dawson…

Loads of pictures and information…I am certainly looking forward to taking a deep dive into the subject of Napoleonic French Cavalry…

And the good thing is that the vision in my eye is loads clearer and I have picked up some half decent reading glasses…

Not good enough to paint with…But I should manage some basing.

All the best.  Aly

So… I bought myself an Airbrush

Greetings….

I decided that I could do with an Airbrush…Yup! This is what happens when you have time on your hands 😆

I have had one before…Many years ago.. So it was interesting to see how the quality and pricing has changed over the years…

I bought a Harder and Steenbeck Ultra… From Element Games…

https://elementgames.co.uk/paints-hobby-and-scenery/Airbrushes-accessories/harder-and-steenbeck/ultra-series/ultra-2024ULTRA 2024 - Ultra Series | Element Games

Along with a Sparmax Air Compressor…

https://elementgames.co.uk/paints-hobby-and-scenery/Airbrushes-accessories/sparmax/sparmax-compressors/sparmax-ac-501x-airbrush-compressorSparmax AC-501X Airbrush Compressor - Sparmax Compressors

And a Cleaning Pot…

https://elementgames.co.uk/dwarfs/paints-hobby-and-scenery/Airbrushes-accessories/airbrush-cleaning-pot1Airbrush Cleaning Pot - Airbrushes Accessories

After reading and watching some reviews….It turns out that this bad boy is the “ Bees knees “ as is the Compressor…

The Airbrush is incredibly well made and is designed with the beginner / Lapsed User in mind…

I am still working out what it can do and hopefully when my vision is back to normal I can have a good deal of fun exploring and investigating….

Everyone I have spoken to who uses an Airbrush says this is an excellent choice…

Oh!…

I also bought something to practice on…

Yup! Why go for something simple 🤣…

The operation on my right eye is on Thursday and hopefully the left eye will be in a couple of weeks down the road…

And then… Lead/Plastic Alp beware….😁

All the best.  Aly

Eight Years Old…

Greetings…

Well there you go… Another year.

Thinking back over the last year I had the feeling that I didn’t do much… But it turns out I have done more than I thought…

A reasonable amount of games… Mostly Lion Rampant.

A bit more painting than I thought…

Of course I could have done a lot more but building work intervened along with various health issues…

Looking back I can now see when my cataracts started to affect my painting output… From late December to January onwards…

With my operation coming up and retirement on the horizon I am hoping there will be a lot more painted toys to show you all in the next year…along with many more games.

So here are a few pictures to show some of the things I did manage to do…

Lion Rampant, Wars of the Roses… 

Our little group have been trying to meet up once a month which means we have had a number of excellent games over the year.

Some ‘Shiny Napoleonics’

I am looking forward to getting back to painting more of these…

More Wars of the Roses…

A few more ‘Shiny Napoleonics’…

Xmas Wars of the Roses…

The Boxing Day game…

Pyrrhus of Epirus…

A new project… 

Alas as this unit was finished I began to notice that my eyes were getting a bit ‘fuzzy’

I do however have another unit cleaned up and undercoated…

At about this time I decided to start ‘Front Loading’ for retirement 😁

My favourite place in the house…

Although that might change when the Wargames Room gets done up next month…

More Wars of the Roses… This time using Midgard.

Napoleon in Egypt round at Alan’s house…

If I can’t see well enough to paint… I can still stick them together.

Partizan… An excellent day out… As always.

The Wild Geese Weekend…

Splendid fun… In splendid company… With lovely toys.

Plans for next year?

I have a few…🤔

Getting on with the Pyrrhic project…

More Shiny Napoleonics…

And getting some of the Plastic 100 Days painted…

And Dads Army…

Of course this is what I am saying now… But I haven’t taken into account what the Butterfly will want…🦋🦋🦋🦋🦋🦋🦋🦋

All the best.  Aly