Spanish artillery

Ok. So here is this week's project. They started off being 1805 french arty and underwent a few changes.  Off went the hats and on went Hat's Spanish infantry hats. A few chaps lost their arms and got a few specialist arms added with the help of a few pins to aid the glue. Overall I'm really happy with how these turned out. 6 figures per gun looks a little cluttered but in a nice way. Now my little Spanish Army is officially all-arms.

Ciassons to feed the hungry girls.

Another picture of Napoleon's daughters

Sundry wagons

Here are my field forges,heavy and light ambulances as well as some french surgeons riding ah la Austrian "wurst wagon" style.

Not all quiet on the hobby front. I've completed the 6-horse limber teams.

Highlanders from Airfix

Mint condition box!! Even the inside paper bit is included.

The Highlanders were the set I always wanted but never got when I was a kid. 6 boxes in total was the high tide mark of my Napoleonic childhood. I remember drooling over pictures of this box in Airfix magazines knowing that I would never really get a chance to buy it (or having it bought for me for Christmas).  I picked this box up in an internet sale a few years ago and the front box cover is on my S5 phone! The cover art on these boxes is so fantastic and inspiring that I still get a little chill (or thrill) when I look at them. They are always a bit of an oasis just to view when life gets a little too hectic.

Speaking of which - that is the end of my reviews of my old boxes. As you will notice from my posts I haven't written that much. This year has been a real roller coaster for me. I've been growing the business, my wife is starting a new job, the kids are now all in Secondary school, music lessons and maths lessons are kicking off in earnest and we've just bought a house and have to tend my mum's house in Hampden which our family has decided to hang onto as a holiday house..  All of these things are conspiring to place this blog and my hobby on the back burner until winter at least. So until the nights close in and the fire is burning in the log burner it is au revoir from me.  

Vive l’Empereur!

Airfix French Infantry

These were the "meat 'n vegies" of the Airfix armies. The Brits always seemed to rout these guys pretty easily as I remember. No fun being an Airfix French infantry dude. They also didn't get the same painting attention as the Imperial Guard. Some (most ) never got painted at all. In my battels the British got to fire first and decimate the advancing French. These dudes were at the front and served as fodder for the Grenadiers at the back. In the end of my battle s on my bedroom floor it always came down to a fight between the Brits and the Imperial Guard. These dudes were always long dead.