Not sure if Iuploaded thus one but this is the finished Peninsular project. These were a joy to paint.

After Christmas

None of my boxes arrived from Australia so I had a miserable stocking this Christmas. On the bright side I have had a pretty relaxing festive season. I have had the girls all by myself (with all of the rallies) while my wife is stuck in Dunedin working. We managed to go on our usual biking extravaganzas plus we added one more that took us behind Puketapu and to the beach.

My New Year's resolution will hopefully be a complete 7 Year's War Prussian army towards the middle of the year and a slow finish of my Pennsular War Brits as soon as Hat release their Dragoons.

2013 is set to be a pretty exciting year for all of us as Josie moves in to Year 10 and Tory starts Intermediate.  I will have little to blog about but I hope to post as many of my" work in progress" shots as I can.

One Day Till The Holidays Start!!

I am back after a few days of no blogging. I promise that 2013 will be a better year for blogging.I promise that 2013 will be a better year for blogging.I promise that 2013 will be a better year for blogging.I promise that 2013 will be a better year for blogging.

This year Santa is bringing me... Hat Napoleonic Command X2, Wurtemburg Cav X1, Brunswick CavX1, Waterloo British Artillery X2 (Imex - a brand which I am not particularly familiar with), British Command Peninsular War X 2.

Not such a great year for buying new figures after this year's British Peninsular extravaganza but not too shabby either. Again this year I am sourcing from Australia since most shops in the South Island don't stock Hat products.  Photos pending....

Oh my God!

I can still log in! So... ummmm.... Time to post something which might interest the blogging community... well.... ummmm. I'll think about it some more.

PS...

Happy Queen's Birthday to all 10 who follow this sparse blog! Long may she reign over (most of) us!!!

Rodents in the House

Over the last few weeks we have had two rabbits in the house. One is Josephine's and it is called Holly and the other belongs ot Victoria and it is called Button. Over the course of the last few weeks, I have also discovered that the little buggers shit all over ther the house. The girls like to keep them inside and play with them after school and the rabbits seem to take the opportunity to deficate in as manu parts of the lounge and kitchen that they can. The carpet is constantly strwn with hay and rabbit pellets and there is a pervading "petshop" smell arounf the house. I secretly long to have a hungry cat to solve this problem that we have created...

Nothing much to post

Well our school was audited a week back and we guess it went pretty well. The report won't be out for another couple of months. Most of my meagre blogging seems to be on Facebook since it is more convenient than Blogger. Not sure what I will do with this blog. It might just end up being a repository for my war game pics. Anyway....I'll post a few more pics of my rapidly expanding British Peninsular War army in the coming weeks. I am about 70% finished my 2nd batch of 200 figures. This means that by August I should have about 800. At that point I think I will take a rest from the Brits and move on to Portuguese or Spanish. The Portuguese had very similar uniforms to the Brits so I might need a few more boxes of the Peninsular War Brits. The Spanish aren't due out till next year but I still have plenty to keep myself busy. I am going to start on some artillery before the end of the year and I still have a pile of light cav to get started on. Endless painting for year to come!!