Napoleonic Bavarian and Wurttemberg Line Infantry

Although these two brigades started off being rebased and upgraded seperately, gradually the two merged to be completed together. The Wurttembergers are all Springwood Bavarian figures, which does mean the helmet is not quite right, but it did mean I could use some 3D printed Bavarian command figures rather than the correct ones that might have looked out of place.

8th and 9th Wurttemberg Line Infantry Regiments (2 battalions each)

3rd and 4th Bavarian Line Infantry Regiments (2 battalions each)

Merry Christmas to all my Blog followers

Recon 2024 - last show of the year

Quite an exciting journey across the pennines and back to Pudsey, Leeds for the Recon show due to Storm Darragh. It's quite a friendly low key show with a good selection of traders. There was very little eye candy, the only eye catcher, which I've seen before, was Yarkshire Gamers battle of of Mentana 1867.

I was involved in the Lance & Longbow Society what-if game set in the Hundred Years war, the War of Saint Sardos 1322-1323.

If I ignore the weather it was a great day out, thanks to Steve, David, Andy and Si.

Napoleonic Russian limbers and crews

Back in the summer I 3D printed some Russian limbers to replace my very old crude Airfix conversions, but then I discovered some files with replacement limber riders that I acquired in a late summer sale and then printed in my final 3D print run for the year. So I have drawn them together with my old Airfix RHA horses to produce my new replacements.

Foot Artillery on the old RHA horses

Horse Artillery on the Zvezda limber

A review of the Russian artillery reveals that I have 3 guns/crews too many and that I should replace all my old Hinton Hunt gunners (4 crews) and replace them with a single crew from my spare Zvezda figures to match the rest of the Foot Artillery Gunners. Obviously I still need to upgrade the gunner basing.

The Horse Artillery Gunners will be upgraded late next year when I get chance to print some bespoke versions acquire in a Black Friday sale.

La Garde au feu - part 3

Having finished the Guard Fusiliers I moved onto the Young Guard and painted up a battalion each of Tirailleurs and Voltigeurs that I had 3D printed to match the size of the rest of the Guard and replace my old first edition Springwood figures.

I haven't attempted to depict particular units of the Young Guard, so the uniforms are quite generic.

They did have an amount of disruption as I had to spend a week away in the middle of painting them and I'm certain that my hands are not as steady as they used to be when painting fine lines.

On the workbench - December 2024

November was a bit of a wash out painting wise as I over ran on the 3D print run and then lost substantial time with a family crisis. Hopefully this is all behind me and I'll try and catch up before the Christmas festivities interupt progress. So I hope to complete the following before the year ends:-

• Two units of French Young Guard infantry - just finishing being painted and then onto basing
• A pair of French Latil Field Cars - already base coated
• Two units of SYW Prussian Frei Corps - Von Kleist Hungarians and Le Noble Jaeger - already base coated
• Plastic 28mm Female Gunfighters
• Two units of Napoleonic Prussian Cuirassiers
• A single crew of the Spanish Brigade Maniobrera Horse Artillery
• A unit of SYW Prussian Line Jaegers to replace my old Revell conversions
• Rebase four units of Napoleonic Wurtemberg line infantry and add new 3D printed command figures
• Rebase my assorted Napoleonic Russian limbers and add the new 3D printed limber riders
• Rebase four units of Napoleonic Bavarian line infantry and add new 3D printed command figures
• Several Russian 76mm Putilov Field Guns

My one regret is that I planned to put more of my surplus on eBay , but I don't think I'll get chance before Christmas

Some reflections on my last 3D print run.

So my last 3D print run didn't start well as I failed to realise that the 8K resin I was using was IPA washable not water washable. But it did produce more resilent models and therefore it was better for printing 20mm figures. So I bought some IPA and an extra bottle of the resin and got to work. Unfortunately although the weather stayed warm the thick cloud meant that curing outside was very slow. Figures I could manage but the base plate was still tacky for the next run which could have affected the adhesion. Luckily it didn't and I managed to print everything I thought I would need for the winter until the weather warms up again. In total, I managed to print:

• Sufficient Napoleonic Russian limber riders to upgrade their limber riders and add a few more
• Four units of replacement Napoleonic French Middle/Young Guard
• Three units of replacement Napoleonic French Young Guard skirmishers
• Four units of replacement Napoleonic Italian line infantry
• Four units of Napoleonic Spanish round hat infantry
• One unit of Napoleonic Spanish round hat infantry skirmishers
• Another 28mm unit of SYW Prussian Jaegers
• An odd collection of scientists in lab coats (they were free and I couldn't reist)
• a pair of WW2 Schwimmwagens where I had added the crews
• A pair of WW2 Laffly V15R where I added the crew (thanks to Dani for the STL)
• A unit of Napoleonic French line infantry fusiliers skirmishing
• A single possible replacement WW2 British 5.5" gun as a replacement for my aged Airfix versions

So why so many? Well when an error occurs on wnat you hope will be the last batch and then you need to print a replacement but you then fill up the batch with your next idea and then it goes on.

A "slight" change to plan

Last Monday I just finished the last batch on the 3D printer and had cleaned it up and about to get into the swing of painting more figures. But there a family crisis so it was off to Wiltshire for the rest of the week.

Despite Storm Bert I managed to get home again on Sunday. During Saturday evening I was quickly checking Facebook when I discovered the Reveille was on in Bristol so I managed to pop in for a short break on route. I met up with a number of familiar faces and one blog follower. They were running one of the upcoming Rapid Fire Reloaded scenarios set in North Africa and I took a few very poor pictures on my phone.