On the workbench - Jul 2021

Some left overs from last month to start off with

• 1 German & 1 Swiss WSS infantry units in French service - just started
• 2 WSS British cavalry units
• 1 WSS French Chevau Leger/Gendarme unit
• Various WSS commanders
• 6 PSC Steyr heavy cars - assembled, I'm building a couple of the Mercedes version from the left overs
• 6 PSC sdkfz250 Neu - various marks - assembled, I'm not happy with the over-sized chunky crew and I'm replacing them.
• 6 PSC Gaz trucks - assembled, I've ordered the office bodies from S&S to complete them.
then depending on progress

• the Redbox musketeers of the King of France and guards of Cardinal Richleau
• the SYW infantry regiment Roth-Wurtzberg

2021Q2 - Progress against plan

Continued the good progress from Q1 and my total painted stands at 1,394 items

• WSS 432
• Ancients 334
• WW2 252
• Modern 197
• Napoleonic 67
• Colonial 64
• AWI 26
• Terrain 22

Compared to plan
I’ve decided to concentrate on five main painting/modelling themes this year, quite a bit is based on new and forthcoming releases:

• Complete rework of my Vietnam War collection by integrating the new figures from Orion - started with the newly released figures from orion and waiting for more
• War of Spanish Succession - French infantry and cavalry plus British cavalry, plus more as Strelets release them - Well underway with these, most of the infantry are now painted and about to start on the cavalry. I'm also waiting to see what Strelets next release will bring
• WW2 Japanese for Battlegroup Pacific - not started, I acquired one pack as part of a job lot of figures
• Rebase my Early Imperial Romans - these are the last ancients that I haven't upgraded - Completed
• Napoleonics, Prussian cavalry, reworking old artillery limbers, Russian peasants for skirmish scenarios, more Spanish cavalry, potentially upgrade British infantry? - completed the Prussian cavalry and Russian peasants in Q1 nothing done since

Then a host of minor themes in order of preference rather than importance:

• WW2 SAS & LRDG. - Completed
• More "Three Musketeers", especially once the new Redbox mounted figures are available. - not started, although I have bought these lovely new figures
• Colonials - Boer Artillery and French Foreign Legion in camp and 37mm. - Completed
• TYW Imperial Croatians/Polish Pancerni/Cossack horse archers/Russian hussars. - not started
• More British and Jacobite for the 45, WAS and SYW, when Redbox release more figures. - not started, still waiting
• Medievals - Scottish shiltron, Revolting Peasants (Zvezda), other odd units for Montgisard. - not started
• SYW Austrian infantry (Roth - Wurtzberg) - not started
• Revolution Cisialpine Infantry - three or four 12 figure units. - not started
• The terrain I have failed to make for the last two years. - Vines completed, started on some Russian fences

Then if time permits:

• More WW2 German cold weather infantry - 2 platoons. - not started
• Rework/Rebase Zulu War forces. - not started

I’m not making any plans for gaming, but once the show circuit starts I’ll try to get to as many as possible. Plus Crisis Point in April and a possible 2021 Big Game. Crisis in Antwerp would be a big attraction if it goes ahead Shows still seem a way off, but at least my local clubs at Airbus and now Elton have got going

Last of the WSS British Infantry

In a final push I managed to complete all four of the British Infantry regiments.
The four units are left to right and front to back: Ferguson's; Lord North & Grey's; Ingoldsby's Fusilers; Rowe's Fusiliers
Luckily there were two units of Fusiliers under Marlborough's command so I could use up all the excess Fusiliers in the Strelets packs The flags on the front pair of units were provided by David from the Not by Appointment blog (link)

Soviet Cavalry - rebased

I've been using my Russians over the last few weeks and the fact that these cavalry have not been rebased unlike almost the rest of the army bothered me.
So I trimmed the bases to my now prefered pill shape whenever I was waiting for the computer to start up or when it decided to go slow. Eventually they were all done and I then applied new basing
All the figures are Revell except the Tschanka which came from Britannia

WSS Orkney & Ingoldsby

Two more regiments join my British forces for the War of Spanish Succession. Orkney's regiment to the left and Ingoldsby's to the right.
It's nice to add some diversity to the army, despite having the very common blue cuffs, they are from the Sottish and Irish establishments so they have appropriate flags for their origins.

Yet more plastic kits assembled

All assembled during the week I stayed with my daughter in County Durham.
From left to right

• Steyr heavy cars - I recon I have enough spare bits to make some Morris versions
• Gaz AA and AAA trucks - I'm going to add some specialised bodies to these
• sdkfz 250 variants

Stop press - I have discovered that my 1/76 Morris parts do not align at all well with the PSC parts.  I need a "Plan B".

On the workbench - June 2021

More plastic kits this month as I'm visiting my daughter for some of the month and I can work on these while I'm there. Otherwise it is on with the War of Spanish Sucession stuff.

4 units of British line infantry - all underway

2 units of British fusiliers

1 German & 1 Swiss infantry unit in French service

2 British cavalry units

1 French Chevau Leger/Gendarme unit

Various WSS commanders

6 PSC Steyr heavy cars

6 PSC sdkfz250 Neu - various marks

6 PSC Gaz trucks