La Haye Sainte

I picked up an old Airfix Waterloo Farmhouse set a few weeks ago and here are the results of a Saturday at the hobby table.I added windows, doors and an outhouse from other sets to make the finished product look nicer.

Really nice but short book on the action around an in the farmhouse during Waterloo.

Inside cover ( looking pretty much like the Airfix model!)

The skill level of this set is set at One.  This is perfect for an artistically challenged hobbyist like myself.

Plenty of work still to do but I'm quite happy with how things are progressing,

Disappointing Fort Kochi

A sewer inhabited by humans with a single canon mounted upside-down.

Not worth the trip really.

Painting in India? Not a chance!

Any thoughts of doing a quick batch of Mysore troops has gone out the window. I did read an interesting title on the interminable journey to india though. It was entitled How the French Won the Battle of Waterloo (or at least think they did). It was not exactly a work of scholarly brilliance but it was a fun read. I don't disagree with the author's view that Napoleonic apologists have created a man far bigger  (napoleon accidental tallness joke) than ever really existed.

During this week I am planning on reading the three titles from Osprey on Waterloo if I get a chance. On the plane the biography of wellington should get a thrashing as well.

That's it from my horrid android phone!

Victoria's version

The finished product!

Imex 1st Street Church

I picked up a variant of this model a few days ago in the hope of turning it into a little bit more 18th Centuryish.  It is still a little bit of a "work in progress' but here is my attempt...

I used Selley's No More Gaps to flesh out the weatherboards and then applied "stone" from an internet site. All done in less than 4 hours (and probably looks like it).

1st Street Church