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Offline Sparrow

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Re: An escalating Peninsular French Army - Dragoons Finished!
« Reply #135 on: April 18, 2020, 04:55:56 AM »
Well done Digits
Put your trust in God and keep your powder dry!

Offline Digits

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Re: An escalating Peninsular French Army - Dragoons Finished!
« Reply #136 on: April 18, 2020, 09:53:36 AM »
Aww cheers fellas!

Ray, similar experience, I was fascinated by the pomp of the French Army.  Always wanted to collect one, but I don’t normally have the patience to sit and paint...I prefer to model.  However, I’m not that active on Ammobunker anymore, where I did 95% of my modelling and conversion.  Having a large army is something I can now concentrate on.  This thread has been going a while I know....but reflects where I was and where I am now I think.  It will be great to get a game in soon.....even a small one.

Ok, so now to concentrate on infantry for a bit.   First up, I got up this am and made this progress.  These will be a regular sized light infantry unit to go with that last command stand......I have sped up a little, and may even try to get these done by tomorrow night!

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Re: An escalating Peninsular French Army - Dragoons AND Infantry Finished!
« Reply #137 on: April 18, 2020, 06:21:15 PM »
OK....something hinky happened.....apparently I was abducted by aliens in my sleep, injected with super human painting hormones and put back to bed.....

Five years it has taken me to get this little far....five years.

And yes, I painted the command stand whilst painting the Dragoons ( which only took me three days) but I have effectively just painted a regiment in ONE DAY!    Woohoo! WTF?!
They need basing but I am stoked!  And it finishes my first infantry brigade!


Offline vodkafan

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Re: An escalating Peninsular French Army - Dragoons AND Infantry Finished!
« Reply #138 on: April 18, 2020, 06:49:43 PM »
Holy Moley  :o
I am going to build a wargames army, a big beautiful wargames army, and Mexico is going to pay for it.

2019 Painting Challenge :
figures bought: 500+
figures painted: 57
9 vehicles painted
4 terrain pieces scratchbuilt

Offline Ray Rivers

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Re: An escalating Peninsular French Army - Dragoons AND Infantry Finished!
« Reply #139 on: April 18, 2020, 07:22:15 PM »
OK....something hinky happened.....apparently I was abducted by aliens in my sleep, injected with super human painting hormones and put back to bed.....

Ahhh... that would explain it!  :D

Well done, they look great.  :-*

And they will look even more so when you have finished the basing. Your basing style is really very compatible with massed troops!

Offline Digits

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Re: An escalating Peninsular French Army - Dragoons AND Infantry Finished!
« Reply #140 on: April 18, 2020, 11:33:32 PM »
Cheers for saying so!

So....I’m going for gold!  I’m back to work....be it from home on Monday.  Work have been good to me, giving me time to recover from Covid but I need to get back to it.  However, I’m on a roll and it’s a shame not to capitalise on this otherworldly gift I have been given.

As such, I’m going to try for ANOTHER regiment by tomorrow night!

I have just spent the last three hours getting a head start on a bunch of figures.   I will be using up about 10 minis that are about 60% done (have been for about 5 years  :-X )
But that still leaves another 20 from scratch plus the command stand I painted earlier in the week.  This is a larger unit of 36 than the one I did today.

I kind of feel that if I don’t do this....it may be a while before I ever have this mojo again.

I can definitely recommend painting your command bases first....way less stress.  Saying that, I do have to paint a sapper for this lot.




Offline vodkafan

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Re: An escalating Peninsular French Army - Dragoons AND Infantry Finished!
« Reply #141 on: April 19, 2020, 12:51:42 AM »
Go for it! You are a machine  :o

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Re: An escalating Peninsular French Army - Suddenly MOJO!
« Reply #142 on: April 19, 2020, 08:33:43 AM »
Good to hear you have recovered from Covid and see your excellent painting progress! Sometimes it just all comes together. 5 years on 60% and boom! you finish miniatures and units fast. Keep em coming!

Offline Digits

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Re: An escalating Peninsular French Army - Suddenly MOJO!
« Reply #143 on: April 19, 2020, 07:41:25 PM »
Cheers bud.

Well....had to get this pick before the light failed altogether.......just about there!

All that’s left is to fill that gap on the Grenadier base....I’m going to paint the Sapper now.

I will take better pics in the daylight tomorrow.



I’m completely stumped.  When I painted my first two battalions, it took me two months.  I have painted the next two in two days!  Go figure....

Ok, my painting is a reasonable tabletop standard and won’t win prizes, but I love them!

I’m sad now that I’m back to work tomorrow, I really want to crack on with another unit.

Not sure what to do next.   I had a fish about and scrambled together enough unpainted figures to paint two more regiments of foot before I need to buy more.  One more unit would finish my first division (bar the attached battery)

I have horses painted for another Dragoon unit.

I have my first Chasseurs a cheval unit built and primed.

And I want to paint some artillery.

Too many choices.

Offline vodkafan

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Re: An escalating Peninsular French Army - Progress.
« Reply #144 on: April 19, 2020, 08:09:01 PM »
Digits well done that's fantastic work. I would paint the artillery unit as it would be a quick one but as you seem to be in an infantry phase if you feel you can steamroller into another foot unit maybe you should just carry on....at any rate I am very impressed.

Offline Digits

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Re: An escalating Peninsular French Army - Progress.
« Reply #145 on: April 19, 2020, 08:16:30 PM »
Cheers mate.  How is yours coming on?  Did you get any painting done today?

Not sure about the arty.....4 guns plus 16 crew....maybe.....

Anyway...time for a progress update.....5 years, last update 13%

Last five days.....pushed to 23%!


Offline Ray Rivers

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Re: An escalating Peninsular French Army - Suddenly MOJO!
« Reply #146 on: April 19, 2020, 08:28:00 PM »
Ok, my painting is a reasonable tabletop standard and won’t win prizes, but I love them!

Nothing wrong with that!

You know when you have 6 minis on a tabletop those minis are going to get close scrutiny. Now... if you have 600 on a tabletop, that is a whole different ballgame. When I was much younger I was heavily into mass battles (ACW, Napoleonic and Ancients) and when you set up 3 Corps per side (15mm) on a ping pong table the first thing you do is step back and breath the atmosphere!  ;D

You're doing great, mate. And your troops look superb and eager to be commanded!  :-*

Offline Digits

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Re: An escalating Peninsular French Army - Progress.
« Reply #147 on: April 19, 2020, 08:31:38 PM »
Thanks for the encouragement Ray, much appreciated.

Offline vodkafan

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Re: An escalating Peninsular French Army - Progress.
« Reply #148 on: April 19, 2020, 09:33:31 PM »
Cheers mate.  How is yours coming on?  Did you get any painting done today?

Not sure about the arty.....4 guns plus 16 crew....maybe.....

Anyway...time for a progress update.....5 years, last update 13%

Last five days.....pushed to 23%!



Was ill last night (existing chronic condition, not the virus) and had hardly any sleep. Attempted a bit of painting this morning but no good. Hopefully couple of hours in tomorrow.

Offline Digits

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Re: An escalating Peninsular French Army - Progress.
« Reply #149 on: April 20, 2020, 01:15:27 PM »
Hope you feel better mate.

So, I decided as I’m in infantry mode and I’d like to get this division done and the command stand is painted, I will crack on and paint one more foot regiment before moving to something else.

Progress will slow now I’m back working so I’m sure won’t be finished until the weekend.  That’s still an improvement on where I was before!


 

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