La Garde au feu part 2

Well, my painting out put maybe slow, but I have tried to get on with the 3D printing while the warm weather lasted and it seems to have come to an end. The cloud may have helped retain the heat, but it also kept away the UV I need to cure the figures outside!!

So in the meantime I have painted two units of the French Imperial Middle Guard, the Fusilier-Chasseurs (right) and Fusilier-Grenadiers (left) using 3D figures I printed to match the size of the Springwood 2nd edition French Grenadiers used for the Old Guard, etc.

The units will replace their predecessors made with 1st edition Springwood figures

I have left the decision on what to do with the old Springwoods to one side for now.

On the Workbench - October 2025

Not bad progress in October, excepting the 3D printing, which I must get started on before the temperature gets colder. As for painting I plan to work on.

• Plastic 28mm Female Gunfighters
• two units of French Middle Guard infantry
• two units of French Young Guard infantry
• two units of Napoleonic Prussian Cuirassiers
• a single crew of the Spanish Brigade Maniobrera Horse Artillery
• two units of SYW Prussian Frei Corps - Von Kleist Hungarians and Le Noble Jaeger
• several Russian 76mm Putilov Field Guns
• a pair of French Latil Field Cars

Crusader gun tractors

The last of my October output is a pair of 3D printed Crusader gun tractors as used to pull 17pdrs by the 5th bn Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders (91st A/T regt RA) that were the anti tank regiment of VIII Corps.

Ford Model Ts

I have painted my first pair of Ford Models Ts for WW1, one for my desert British and the other for my Russians. I was hoping to find some suitable crews for them as STL files, but so far no luck.

I have also started on creating a pickup version digitally.

Napoleonic Austrian Commanders

Not being satisfied with my old Esci/Airfix conversions, I bought some STL files of Austrian Generals, I didn't bother with the horse as I already had some excallent ones bought earlier. I combined the two digitally to create four variants even though I could have created more and printed 20 figures, which would have met my needs.

Typically once I started painting I discovered that some of my old figures were still adeqaute for my needs so I kept them as well and they can be seen in the back row.

The rest of the French Napoleonic Line rebased

As previously mentioned I expanded my existing four battalions into five by adding in the extra resin command figures and some left over Grenadiers from their rebasing.

Overall I was short by just two fusilier figures so I added in a couple of 3D printed figures that were a close match and they are shown in this battalion.

Extra ECW Artillery

A small boost for my English Civil War army is a second gun and crew, all 3D printed and scaled up to 28mm from the masters in 15mm.

For ECW the difference in detail doesn't seem to matter to much.

La Garde au feu

It has taken some time to get to the point where the rebasing and upgrading of the French Imperial Guard and friends is complete. The figures are a mix of my old hard plastic Springwoods and some newly 3D printed command figures.

The Old Guard Chasseurs

Old Guard grenadiers

3rd "Dutch" Grenadiers

Italian Guard grenadiers (left) and Velite Grenadiers (right)

Saxon and Westphalian Guard Grenadiers

Foot Artillery of the Guard, I bought some files so I could replace the old Italeri figures, even though they had already been rebased.

Booty from The Other Partisan

Still no inspiration on what to start next but lots of inspiration especially around either Victorian style Jack the Ripper or Sherlock Holmes or possibly Gangs of Rome. My purchases were moderate

The aquisitions and my plans are

• The Mars Russian Dragoons look good enough to make some Prussian Cuirassiers for 1813
• The 76mm Putilov will go to my RCW White Russians who are short a few
• The 100mm M14 was widely used after WW1 by various nations including the Italians and there are lots of possible uses
• The Latil Field Cars will go to my WW2 French as I have been unable to find any I can 3D print
• "The Road to Carentan" has some nice scenarios for my US paras and I may try one at the club on Thursday
• Plus some top up paints

Trip to "The Other Partisan"

Simon from the club very generously offer to drive us over to Newark for "The Other Partisan" so Andy and myslef joinied him for the trip. It was a great day out and here are the pictures I took

Boondock Sayntes - Tip and Run in East Africa

Derby Wargames - Operation Goodwood

Ficticious AWI battle

Lutzen

Vietnam (in the Lard Zone)

Sharp Practice

Simon Millar - WSS version of King & Parliament

Old Pikeys - Market Garden

Yet more WSS, lots of eye candy

Perry's - Aboukir Bay

The Bodkins - "after Zorndorf" SYW

A few extra pictures from my phone after both my camera batteries died.