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