I have finally got round to painting the French Cuirassiers and thus finishing the army pack I bought at the last Derby Uni show. Though I have painted up plenty more of that army that did not come in the pack as well. Two reasons for the delay with the heavy boys. First up I like to get the bread and butter troops all painted before doing the cream. But secondly with the diversion to the Spanish Ulcer and the almost lack of Cuirassiers I changed tack and painted up Dragoons and recently Neapolitans. Now I am looking at the Italians and a feast of other forces for this area. Lee and myself tough really need to look at where we plan to go first as I may have to divert again to 1815 or maybe back to Russia as originally planned. But then again anything is possible!
Onto the subject in hand, I have painted up the 1st, 4th, 7th and 10th Cuirassiers and the reason I picked these out was that they are the first listed of each colour change of collars and turnbacks (not that I did the turnbacks).
So I'm off now so wish me luck, which I may well need as this game will be larger than the last one as we try and break the rules a bit.
That's a fine looking bunch you have there Ian. Best of luck at the game and don't wear yourself out too much!
ReplyDeletewell done and as you asked I wish you the best of luck... great little cuirassiers, I must get some in 20mm or the carabiners
ReplyDelete@ Anne, Thanks and I guess I did it again oops
ReplyDelete@ Gowan, well we played a really fun game, lots happening but have yet to finish so the game is still in play. The rules stood up to the size of the game though it's taken far longer than I like, still with the changes we talked about that could be speeded up a fair bit
Ian