On the Workbench - September 2026

Well it's been an evenful period since I have last had to consider what's on my workbench and at least I feal like I am on the recovery path. So looking at what's in the stash and what I've worked on (or not) since June. here is my rough plan:

• 4 more units of WSS French cavalry - horses are painted. (from my latest purchases)
• Paint the wild west buildings acquired at Games Expo - these are undercoated
• Russian Napoleonic Guards and Grenadiers - these are underway, a mix of rebasing and new command figures
• Russian Pavlov Grenadiers - a single new unit to to complete my grenadier brigade
• A pair of German Jagdpanthers
• Replacement hulls for some Japanese tanks that exploded
• Russian Gaz bus
• Then maybe work on the Spanish Infantry for the WSS

A few pictures from Attack

Attack is always a good local show with a good cross section of traders, which always makes it well worth visiting when I am in the area to visit family. It also is useful to meet up with old friends and catch up on the gaming scene in the South West.

Only a few games caught my eye.

Hastings played with "On Bloody Ground"

Nice to see a Rapid Fire game - Operation Varsity - I've still not played this scenario

Battle of Ethandun or Edington 878 AD

English siege of Ile de Re 1627 skirmish game

Lovely French & Indian Wars

South East Asia Jungle Huts

Hurrah, it seems a long time since I started painting these jungle huts, but at last they are finished and I'll be using them for my WW2 and Vietnam games. They are all 3D printed and the basis was a set of excellent files provided for free on Thingiverse by Rubicon (link). All I needed to do was scale them for 1/72.

WSS Walloon Cavalry

Although my intention was to paint more French cavalry for the War of Spanish Succession, I decided that as quite a number of Spanish Netherlands (Walloon) units fought mixed in with the French I should add these in to the mix. So here are three Walloon units painted from Strelets British Cavalry. There is very little detail on the exact uniforms apart from them wearing the standard white/grey coats with red lining (cuffs)

Regiment Toulongeon, I was lucky as someone had painted this unit, so I based my unit on theirs see Alys Toy Soldiers (link)

Regiment Lacotaire

Regiment Beaussart

Thanks to everyone

Thanks to everyone who commented on my post or contacted me independantly. When you are feeling low there is nothing like the ecouragement of friends to help you to get active/motivated again. I feel almost back to normal, although I still have more tests and a cardiac rehab program to complete.

Thanks everyone
Will

At last the SYW British Infantry are complete!

After a too long absence I have slowly recovered my health and painting mojo. Here are the the last two Seven Years War British Infantry regiments the 23rd and 51st Foot accompanied by the other two earlier painted regiments.

51st Foot

23rd Foot (although the facings are correct I didn't have enough mitres so the unit is mainly in tricornes)

I am also back to gaming again which cetainly raises the spirits!

It's been very quiet here!!

It's still not completely obvious to me what happened, but I got food poisoning at Attack, this then resulted in diarrhorea and vomiting. This started me feeling dizzy and then I was in hospital due to a total loss of sodium. It took 10 days in hospital and I'm now home and on the mend. I've still got a number of tests and observations still o go through. Hopefully I'll be back to normal next week if all goes well.