Hobby dead in the water? Well not quite...

The strange thing about the hobby is that it never completely dies. Just when I thought that my boxes of Napoleonic battalions would never see the light of day again... there they go (or at least one anyway). I pulled it out of storage on a whim and before I knew it I had bought three Osprey books to add to my collection. I can't say I am back in painting mode yet though - perhaps that is a little too much to hope for. But I can say I do feel rumblings in the magma chamber. In the meantime here are some pics.

Chasseurs

Old Guard

Nassau?

New Vanguard titles- make a change from uniformology of the Napoleonic Wars

An interesting book on the Irish military diaspora - of which I knew nothing about.

A very slack blogger...

I apologise for my slack blogging. To be honest I haven't done any of my hobby for the last 6 months. A very sad confession to make. Life is just too busy at the moment! I have bought some more Osprey books which I shall write about later next week. The weather is starting to pick up a bit and the days are certainly starting to lengthen. Perhaps the increased sunlight will bring more vigour to my painting hobby?

7TW

7YW Prussians for Christmas?

800 Figures
150 Cavalry
8 Cannon

Mmmmmm......The house of Hohenzollern shall rise again in Southern New Zealand!

Can't believe the snow!

OK so at this stage of the year we do not expect rhis when we wake up in the morning...

From the dining room window

The lonely house next door which someone is starting to renovate

The project

of sculptures of the Williamson family

A new project...

I have been mulling this over for a while. How about a 600 foot figure Prussian 7YW army with 5 Cav and 8-12 Artillery? I could follow this up with an Austrian and French and Russian army?

According to the Hat site there is going to be a bunch of figures due out in the next release...

8280 7YW Prussian Infantry Marching In queue for release E23	Test shot Painted test figs
8281 7YW Prussian Infantry Action In queue for release E23	Test shot
8282 7YW Prussian Infantry Command E23

So I will probably go for a marching army this time.  Lots of identical figures marching their way across Silesia...

Ok then.... 10 boxes of marching = 500 figures Two boxes of action = 100 and 2 command puts some flags on the bases.

18 figs to a battalion - 30 Battalions.

But then I am going to have to get some Zvezda Hussars as well...plus a couple of boxes of Zvezda Prussian grenadiers.....

Mmmmm. I think I am going to have to be nice to Santa over the coming months. This should be a cool project at least until the Peninsular British get some heavy and light cavalry to take on those pesky frogs.

I Want a Man Cave

Things that I want to have:

1) A large war-games table.
2) glass display cabinets
3) Shelving for books
4) Computer space
5) Sofa
6) my own bathroom
7) Stereo
8) Fridge
9) Workbench/painting table
10) Time to enjoy the above items

Is that too much to ask? I am really a simple soul .

Airfix - with photos to come later because I don't have my iPhone cable.

I had a bit if nostalgia for the days of my youth a couple of nights ago so a decided to delve into a closet and find my old 1/32 Airfix Napoleonic figures.  They were the mainstay of my battles as a kid from when I was 7. I guess they got a bit of a thrashing because there was seldom a day when they weren't fighting Waterloo or left to rot after a battle only to get half sucked up the vacuum cleaner or stood on by the rest of the family. They are a little rough now with many missing their barrels to their muskets or even their bases.  So I set them up and here is the photo. Still looking ready to welcome Napoleon back from Elba any day!

I also had a little bit of research into those Medieval figures that I picked up in that auction of Deetail figures a few weeks back. Here are the photos.  It turns out that they were from a 1978 box of Airfix Medieval Foot Soldiers.  Back in the day I was into Napoleonic so I wouldn't have thought of wasting my precious Christmas money on these figures.  Many decades later, although I am still not interested in the Medieval period, I am eager to get hold of the original box for these figures.  It looks like I will have to buy from an overseas site like E-Bay (rather than Trademe) is I am ever going to have a hope of getting the box.