TYW Stuff

I've finished a few figures for the Thirty Years War, here they are in good order. First, some Zvezda and ACtA infantrymen, in groups of twelve for skirmish games like The Pikeman's Lament.

Next up Revell and Waterloo1815 cavalrymen. The Revell fig has only been washed and highlighted and is from a previous batch.

Some more Zvezda pieces, here you can see conversion work with the arms and bodies a bit more. It's entirely viable to give matchlocks to armored pikeman bodies and pikes to the musketeers, the rest is done with a bit of filler.

Allied High Command for the Secret Project

This is a big ol' batch of creative conversions, mostly Russian and a few Austrian command figures.

More French staff

My Napoleonic French armies are already overstaffed compared to the other three nations I collect, but the majority of these figures have sat so long on my painting tray that I finally felt pity for them. There are two Italeri mounted ADCs, a Zvezda general and two Waterloo1815 line officers in this lot, and a small diorama with two Italeri general officers and an Italeri/Esci guard artillery officer.

British Heavies

Proceeding in the order in which the figures were completed, here we see a dozen Italeri Scot Greys, and two Waterloo1815 officers, one of them a 1/72 representation of Sir Thomas Picton.

Another familiar figure

This time it's a conversion, a Waterloo1815 officer on a Zvezda nag with an Italeri hat - representing none other than the famous Marshal Lasalle, inspired by two paintings of him, at the head of a cavalry charge, holding his pipe.

French infantry #3 - the Even Older Guard

To boost the strength of my Napoleonic French forces, I've completed the last fourteen of the HäT line infantry, and brought a much neglected, 24-figure unit of the venerable Airfix Old Guard up to date with a fresh paintjob.