95th Rifles

The shame of my gaming cupboard is my Napoleonic armies, which are both:

1 - Massive
2 - Unpainted

Real monkey on the back, especially the masses and masses of cavalry I have. Its built at least, but part of the "no painted no tabletop" rule I've put in for myself is ensuring that these aren't getting played.

They take ages though, don't they, Napoleonic? Bloody ages with the straps and facings and all that. So when I do get the itch to paint some of it, I need to take advantage of that and get working!

Started with something nice and easy - especially now I'm a bit more sufficient with planning for painting en masse and getting armies cranked out.

95th it is to start then. Mainly because they take about an hour to hammer out a small unit of 9. Took the opportunity to rebase these onto 40mm multiple rounds as well, because I'd originally put them on 20mm squares and it didn't look quite right.

First unit below. I've another, but they can wait until I've done a few line regiments to break up the endless red.

More of the Roses

Some more WOTR regiments, just a pair of them this time. These are more the support units for the main household regiments in the brigade, but those can come later.

First up - Crossbowmen. Tasty minis and I wanted them to look bastardly hard armoured and real siege specialist style troops. The colours were most enjoyable, I must say.

Armoured rear - double hard!

Next up is a unit of pikes. Now, theres just something about pikes, isn't there? Masses of them look fantastic on the table.

Went for a more simple standard with no particular heraldic device as they aren't a household.

Lastly, heres everything all together. Getting there, its getting there. Two more households and some cannon and a brigade commander and I reckon we're done with this lot for the minute.