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Painting Challenge 12

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  Painting Challenge 12 Feb 3- Feb 9 Not much paintng this past week.  Since I am over half way to my 1000 item goal, I decided to lay out my Napoleon's that need painting to see what I actually need for my Neopolitans.  I found that by switching to 16 man formations, that I had a slew of extra center company figures.  That brought a new dilemma as there were more than I needed for the size of the force I wanted to build.  The logical step was to now build a contingent from the Kingdom of Italy, a force I did not want to paint. I also decided to start to assemble some of the hoard of plastic figures I have for ancients, and medieval eras.  These include Romans, Gauls, Carthaginians, Celts, Ottomans etc.  On to the two photos. Here we have some more of figures for the 30 years war.  Slowlyworking my way through them with only around 30 left to do. The only other painting completed were these.  The single figure and the command stand are figure...
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Army Showcase Cleve-Berg Infantry

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Army Showcase Duchy of Cleve-Berg Infantry The first photo shows the 1st and 2nd Regiments of Line.  All of the figures are Perry Plastics French Line.  The  Dutchy wore uniforms of French design with light blue facings.  Units served in Spain and were part of the Grand Army.  The second photo shows the 3rd and 4th Regiments. I tried to get a photo of all eight battalions.  This is the 3rd and final time painting these brave folk.   The original figures were from Mini-Figs.  I had decided to start a really monumental project and do  several Corps of the Grand Army.  I started with the Bergs.  Then I decided to do Westphalian's.  In doing so, I didn't have enough figures from Mini-Figs and decided to with to Old Glory.  By combining the Berg infantry with the Westphalians I had enough to do all the infantry for both countries.  Just recently I decided to switch the number of figures on a stand to co...
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Painting Challenge 11

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Painting Challenge Jan 27 - Feb 2 In small scale painting this week is a 6mm/1-285 scale Tornado attack aircraft from GHQ Models.  This will be used in modern micro armor games for the Cold War, as well as for the Imperial Daharan Army Air Corps. In the above photos, we have more of my Thirty Years War project.  The first one is for a 4th Shotte unit. Two shot units will be paired with a pike unit to make one larger unit.  The bottom photo is of more figures for a commanded shot unit.  I will have enough figures for several of this type of unit. Here we have more figures for my Neapolitan army.  This will complete the 1st Battalion of the 5th Regiment which wore Green facings.  A photo of the completed battalion is below. This completed the painting for January.  The statistics are as follows. Beginning Balance 9849 Added 54 Painted 103 Ending Balance 9800  
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Painting Challenge 10

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  Painting Challenge 10 Jan 20 - Jan 26 One would think that having been an army officer in real life that I would adhere to the Principle of the 6 P's.  However, last week I posted that I had all of the stands painted for my Duchy of Cleve Berg army.  As I was boxing up the army, I noticed that surprise surprise, I had missed 3 voltigeres.  I should have remembered, as I had painted one before, as I waited for some spurs to come in from the Perry's order.  That being said... In this photo we have the 3 missing lights for Cleve Berg on the left and 1 grenadier and 1 voltigere for my Neapolitan army.  With this, I now have all 8 battalions of line for Cleve Berg, and 5 line battalions for the Kingdom of Naples.  I have 5 more Neapolitan line battalions that have to be rebased.  In addition I have all of the foot guard battalions for Naples, but all have to be rebases to my new configuration, as well as some more figures to be pa...
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Painting Challenge 9

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Painting Challenge 9 Jan 13 - Jan 19   Small scale of the week.  Here we have a 1/700 scale C-5A of the modern Daharan Army Air Corps.  This joins the fleet of the Transport Company.  To the right of the plane is a 1/700 scale 150mm gun of the Imperial Artillery.  It was in one of Pit Roads kits that I purchased 20+ years ago.  To the left is a 6mm GHQ command post carrier.  This one is not camouflaged as it will  the Medic track for my combined arms unit for modern micro armor games.  Still have to paint the Medic symbol, but that will come later. In this photo, we have the start of two Shotte units for the Thirty Years War.  Nothing more to say until the units are done. Here we have the start of the 1/5th Line Regiment for my Neapolitan Napoleonic Army.  I have other units already done, but I decided to rebase all of my vast Napoleonic collection, going from 3 figures per stand, 4 stands per battalion to 4 stands of 4 figures. ...
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Painting Challenge 8

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Painting Challenge 8 Dec 6 - Jan 12 A case of flu severely limited my production this week.  In good news, the multiple command sprues of Napoleonic French, and Duchy of Warsaw arrived.  This will allow me to finish my Cleve-Berg army project as well as my Neapolitan Army. I managed to get this block of shot painted for the Thirty Years War.  Again it is not based as I might have to re-base it when I pick a rule set.  Still have more of these figures that were partially painted when I got them.  There are many figures that are not started, and those I will paint as a Bavarian contingent. This photo is of a squadron of Star Bombers for my breakaway faction of Terrans for Galactic Knights.  Not much else to say about the figures as they are easy to paint. That wraps up the week.  Hopefully more to show next time!
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Painting Challenge 7

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  Painting Challenge 7 Dec 30-Jan 5 First for the week, a 15mm Gun Carriage for my U. S. forces.  I will base the vehicle and add stowage at some later date. Next are some militia for my Austrian napoleonic.  I have had the figures for so long that Joe had to help me figure out what they were.  I painted them as Prague militia.  This, I think finishes my Austrian contingent for my Napoleonics. Next are some 1/700 aircraft for modern Dahara.  The front two are naval strike aircraft for the Fleet Air Arm.  The 4 engine plane is a transport for the Army Air Corps. These are the last two emplacements that would fit any period that had sand bags.  I will use them for my 15/20/28 mm tabletops.  I think that I have around 10-12 of them. This is the beginning of what will become the 2nd unit of shot for my 1st Pike Block of Thirty Years War figures.  The 8 other figures are on the painting table as I type. and will be done fo...
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