AWI French

Another quiet month on the painting front but not totally unproductive. 

This group of French is painted up as the chasseurs from the Saintonage regiment. The regiment took part in the siege of Yorktown in 1781. 

These are Peter Pig figures from their AWI range Packs 102 - French flank chasseurs advancing and 103 French chasseurs command.

 

Maybe next month will be more productive but I won't be holding my breath ! 

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A new project

There's not been much activity on the hobby or blog front over the last month or so with this and that and baby sitting duties. Even so I managed to get this new project underway. Peter Pig do a lovely range of AWI figures and I've been collecting them for a few years now. When the French came out I had the motivation to get started on the project.

I decided on painting up the first batch as the Guadeloupe Regiment (Packs 109 - French colonial advancing & 110 - French colonial command). These are based up for Peter Pigs Washington's Army rules.

 

 

I couldn't find any info on the Guadeloupe drummers jacket so painted it as a standard French drummer - intending to repaint as and when details are found.

I went a bit OTT with the grass tufts on these bases but on the next regiment I'll do more static grass and less tufts.

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Where's the day gone?

Well here's the answer -432 pieces of uss enterprise.

MY boy liked it really he just wanted to get on and play with it.

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Ion Age Habitation Geo Shelter

Sorry for the lack of posts for this month but family life and decorating have all got in the way of my hobby. I have been getting a little paint time in on a new project which is progressing  on the slow side. I might have something to show in a couple of weeks. Regimental colours and facing's are fun to do on 15MMS. Lol

But back to the subject of the post. Below is a picture of the remaining 3 GEO Shelters - we have a laboratory, a defensive pod and a storage unit. The quality of the picture is not so good but this has been taken with a new tablet and I'm still learning how to use it. Some good features on the camera so I'm hoping to improve on this. 

As usual thanks for taking the time to look.

Ion Age Habitation Geo Shelter

I picked up these Geo Shelters (as well as another 3 variants) from Ion Age when they came out a few months back. They were nice resin models with only one issue really - the undersides were a little uneven. After cleaning they were undercoated with halfords grey primer and then airbrushed with Vallejo brown sand and Iraqi sand, washed with GW agrax earthshade and a few details picked out.

Some NSL troops for scale

Hopefully I'll have the other 3 finished and photographed next weekend.

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NSL Armour

The NSL troops are finally finished and they need some armour support. I chose two different types for some variety. I decided to airbrush both of these and I m quite happy with the end result even though I haven't used an airbrush in about eight years and the 25 year old compressor still worked fine.

First up is an 8 legged walker MBT with a big gun! The kit comes with three gun options.

The second vehicle is a Cougar Main Battle Tank (tracked) and again it came with three gun options - not sure what gun I've gone with but I like the look of it.

And here's a picture of the two side-by-side.

The only issue I have is with the ariels. I used thin wire but they've kinked to easy. Next time I'll either go for a thicker wire or melt a plastic sprue.

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NSL "PKaZ" Powered Armour Troops Heavy Support Weapons & Hand Weapons

I took a couple of days off at the beginning of the week to get over the last cold that was hanging on and to catch up on some sleep, I returned to work on Wednesday worse than I felt on Sunday. The kids had bought some nasty bug home from school again and all I felt like doing this week was photographing the last troops for the NSL.

 

   Hand Weapons

Heavy Support Weapons

 The whole team

Hope to have a couple of armoured vehicles on here in the next couple of days - cold permitting.

Take care.