On the Workbench - June 2025

Given the over two weeks away I have managed to catch up a bit on plan, and at least I managed to finish the Napoleonic Austrian rebasing. So along with other interruptions I will be working on.

• Painting the couple of biplanes from the Wargamers Forum Group Build - just started
• British Dragoons and Light Dragoons for the Peninsula, the later will be for skirmish games. - now well underway, fixing the loose arms and carbines was a PITA
• Work on "El Cid" figures to modify my existing Crusader armies to Spain - started and assembled
• Start up the FDM printer and create some hooches for Nam68 - Have set it up, but I'm not sure about the hooches that I would have printed as they don't seem to be well designed, maybe because the file were cheap, I need to decide how to proceed. but I've still invested in another kickstarter with STL buildings for WW2 France
• Start assembling the 28mm "Gangs of Rome" figures - still unstarted
• Bystanders for "What a Cowboy" - already undercoated
• WSS Danish Sjaellandske Cuirassiers - using the Strelets figures
• As the temperature has risen I have the start preparing to restart the reisn printer

I'll also be at the Phalanx show in St Helens, where Beacon Gaming Club is putting on two games, a WW2 D Day 1944 scenario under the club banner and the battle of Arsuf 1191 in conjunction with the Lnce & Longbow Society. Please stop by and have a chat.

Last Napoleonic Austrians rebased

A final push and I have rebased the last of my Napoleonic army, these are another couple of units of skirmishing Grenz and some Landwehr. The Grenz are Karlstadt (yellow facings) and Wallach (green)

The Landwehr were originally conversion of Springwood figures into Jaeger, but I later replaced these with metal figures, so they became Landwehr. For the rebasing I added some staff from leftover HaT Landwehr painted to match.

Bamboo clumps for the jungle

Most likely for Vietnam games (link), but also for South East Asia in WW2. I was struck by the look of some clumps another wargamer had made and had to copy them.

I have not made the clumps quite as thick and also not bothered to paint the stalks darker, but they give a good general effect.

Napoleonic Austrian Grenz

Although they really had stopped being effetive as irregular infantry by the Napoleonic Wars I have continured to base them as such.

The units represented are Banal (crimson facings), Warasdiner (crab red) and Banater (light blue)

Back again with Napoleonic Austrian Grenadiers

After two weeks away with almost complete communication blackout in the Scottish Highland I'm back. At least have finished the Austro-Hungarian Grenadiers.

As before the majority are Springwood hard plastic plus Newline officers

On the workbench - May 2025

Still slow progress (for me), and as I plan to spend quite a bit of May away, I need to focus on my plan. Some progress has been made, at least on rebasing the Austrians, and the WW1 aircraft that I had been putting off making have ben assembled. So in May I will mainly concentrate on finishing what I've started or planned to start.

• Napoleonic Austrian Infantry rebasing - I need to get them finished
• Painting the couple of biplanes from the Wargamers Forum Group Build
• British Dragoons and Light Dragoons for the Peninsula, the later will be for skirmish games. - I should get on with this now they are assembled
• Work on "El Cid" figures to modify my existing Crusader armies to Spain - not started, although I have found the figures
• Start up the FDM printer and create some hooches for Nam68 - not done, I need to get going on this
• Start assembling the 28mm "Gangs of Rome" figures - another one I have not yet started
• On a whim I did start on some bamboo thickets for Nam68 etc.

Last for April - more Napoleonic Austrians

Another batch of Napoleonic Austrians rebased

First battalions are distinguished by carrying the white Leibfahne

The mjority this time are Hungarian