The Cardinal's Wargame Reveries

Tuesday, 2 February 2010

Minifigs resurrection.. a WIP part 1.

Minifigs, owned and nearly all painted by me in the very early 80s.An army that was ever victorious in the very very odd world of WRG. By chance, or was it design . who knows, it ended up in the ownership of my good chum Larkspur , who has chosen to employ me on rehabilitating this fine body of very shiny fellows to the noble standards of Lasalle..so it has begun.They were mostly in remarkable condition, that Windsor & Newton Gloss varnish is very very effective.

The bases are 50x 50mm , none of that loony bolshie 40 x 40 for 25mm lads ,and are 5mm cork tiles so as to give them a bit of stature when up against the big men of today..First pic is the Heavy cavalry Dragoons, Cuirassiers and Carabiniers..

commanders ..

more commanders..almost 30 years on from the day they were first painted..

Dragoon regiment , the 17th ..I didn't paint these , I think Jeff Thompson did these..

The rest of the army, in its storage box..don't worry lads the Beau Soleil will shine on you soon

Sunday, 31 January 2010

Wagram Project

15mm ABs..first up the Vienna Volunteers.

and then the Jaegers

Thursday, 28 January 2010

some WIP work

Trying out some Victrix plastic Napoleonics..as I said elsewhere "seems to have as many parts as an Airfix Churchill and goes together as easily" , and I might add as historically accurate as well..why does the French Grenadier bearskin have a grenade on its patch when it should be a cross?..ho hum..I dont like these figures anywhere near as much as the Perry's..but they are begun..