Italeri French Grenadiers

Finally got around to completing the painting of my first unit of French Grenadiers today. Still got the bases to flock as you can see .. (Click on images to enlarge)

Someone who commented on one of my TMP postings recently wrote that he was planning to paint his figures in very small numbers but on a very regular basis, something along the lines of between 4 and 8 figures per week, .....every week. I like this approach and will hopefully be doing the same as I tend to get really bogged down if I attempt to paint in any great numbers in one go. As I'm using small numbers of figures per unit (around 12 infantry and 4 cavalry figures per unit for V&B) I'll also get the satisfaction of generating at least one new unit quite quickly..... I can also chop and change exactly what I'm painting too, so I could have a batch of Austrian, French or Russian troops on the go at the same time... Even these small planned amounts will add up throughout the year and at least outstrip the pathetic amount I managed to complete last year! ....
As you've probably guessed by now I find painting a complete chore I'm afraid.... hence my 'simplistic' painting style..

Need some info here if anyone can help. The guy in the rear rank, 2nd on the right is holding an axe and wearing some kind of what looks like an apron. Any idea what colour this should be?

So that's it for now, my next Grenadier figures are prepped and ready to go (I plan another 2 of these units at the moment) so I'll crack on..... All comments welcome so please feel free.

All the best,

Steve

The Painting Drought Is Broken...

Well after many months of lethargy I've finally got round to painting my Napoleonics again. I still have a mountain of unpainted plastic to go at so I decided to paint up a unit of Italeri French Grenadiers. Done in my usual simple style so the paint job is nothing to shout about but I'm just really glad that my painting 'dry spell' is finally over... A couple more colours to add and then the basing to do.

Still a bit to do on these but it's good to break the brushes out again at last. 

Well this is another unit to put into the V&B project (don't you love small units!) Next up I'm planning on painting up some French Heavy cavalry .... I'm on a roll!

French line infantry (Italeri)

A few pics of the Italeri French line infantry Brigade ( 3 x 12 figure Batallions)

Ready for basing ......

Not too sure on my rule set yet but I'm leaning toward Le Fau Sacre by TFL. .... Or my own tweaked version of it .... Come on, we all have a tweak now and again!

Italeri Russian infantry; a first stab!

I've just completed my first 12 figure Russian infantry unit .....

The figures are from the Italeri range and although I wasn't initially impressed with the uniform detail (the figures barely resemble the figures on the box artwork) I am pleased with them now that they're painted up.

At least it's made a nice change to paint something different for a change ............... Oh well, back to the French line infantry.....