As I wrote in my last post, I havent been doing much painting lately for various reasons. In the last week though, I have been able to get back into it to some extent. I base-coated around 70 figures, all of them Prussians: a third musketeer battalion and a fusilier battalion, plus some skirmishers and two mounted colonels. I also managed to finish four fusiliers. With these Prussians, I paint to a slightly lower standard, and I can often do 4 or even 8 figures a day after preparation and a spray basecoat. When I am actually painting that is!
It’ll be a while until I can continue painting, but its a start. Together with the Prussians, I also plan to paint up four amazing-looking napoleonic buildings from Grand Manner, which I grabbed in their final sale. They are four half-timbered Prussian buildings (barn, cottage, night watchman’s cabin and the Wachau (Leipzig) meeting house) and not least a windmill (modelled after the windmill at Ligny, if I am not mistaken). Even though they were sold at a relative discount, they were still expensive. I had had them on my wish list for a long time, and now that the final sale came along, I couldnt resist them. These are the equivalent of the Rolls-Royces of wargames’ terrain pieces, with amazing detail both externally and internally. In fact, they are so detailed, it’ll be a major project painting them up. On the other hand, just one or two of these will make centrepieces for Napoleonic period games, and I suppose they work quite well for WW2 as well.
Pictures (from the GM website) of the buildings. I really hope I will be able to do them justice, they really deserve it!
That also means Grand Manner is closing down, as you may have seen (deadline for last orders is 19th of July!). However, there are only some items left in stock, and none of the ones I bought are available. Hopefully, this will only be temporary and the company taken over by someone else.
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