OK so as I cant paint very much I decided I would share my plans for the next few units I will be working on. It may also shed some light on the method behind by madness (Or the madness behind my method).
One of the key things for me is the motivation to paint. I think I have said before that this blog has been great for keeping me focused, If I look at a pile of lead I get easily distracted, doing a figure here and there for various projects. With this in mind I tend to have 2 or 3 different types of figures on the table at once. This keeps me interested and I can trick myself into not being over faced by 40 or so red coats for the next two battalions of Saxons for instance.
This also means that every so often I open the box where I stick the painted figures and find I have the majority of a unit complete and become very motivated to do the last few and get them on here.
So I thought this might be a good time to share what's in the painted box and how that fits my plans for the next couple of months. Most of which is aimed towards getting the figures on table for another small battle. With Dave now working his way through the second batch of 4 battalions of Russians along with some horse and Mark well into his 10th and 11th units of Danes, I really need to get some more Swedes complete in order to avoid being swamped. I also wanted to focus on Poles and Cossacks to bolster the Swedes.
Our next game is more of an alternative history, The Saxons, Russians nd Danes all fought together against the Swedes in Northern Germany as part of an allied army later joined by Hanover and Prussia, but after Poltava the Polish and Cossack allies of the Swedes were defeated in Poland before they could join up with the Swedish Garrisons. To allow us to get more troops on table for now we will allow the Cavalry forces of the Poles and Cossacks to break through and join the Swedes, giving them a fighting chance.
The images are from the excellent web site
http://www.tacitus.nu/ which I find really useful, I hope they wont mind me sharing them here.
So the first figure for my next Tremanning battalion, very plain but the yellow offsets the grey really well, along with the Upplands unit this will add a slightly different dimension to the blue and yellow of the Swedes. Only one done but they are quite simple so I hope to get these done reasonably quickly when back painting the rest currently languish on the table primed up and waiting for their undercoats of grey and orange.
I then will be working on a further battalion of Livgardet til fot, the foot guards. The first 4 figures are complete as below.
The first two pike for the Jonkopings battalion are also done, I will be using mainly Foundry figures in cold weather gear for this unit with some standing Warfare minatures mixed in.
The most advanced of the units is the Liv Gardet Grenadiers. I have 13 of these guys finished so only 5 more and these are done, really excited about how dynamic these will look when done, mixing charging figures with the Ebor storming party will hopefully look great and complete the 4 battalion guards brigade
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