The Wagram Project: The first of the French

and the rest is at

The Cardianl's Reveries

"By the Right ... Right Dress!" ACW 54mm

Some home cast 54mm Rebs I've just finished painting. I will add these to the ranks of my growing 54mm collection. One of these days I am going to put these fellows and their mates on the tabletop and play a nice BIG wargame with them. Until then they will just show themselves off in my cabinet.

Some bay horses ...

as how I do them..and a not bay horse ( a black) with an Italian brigadier riding him.All done in Acrylics with a bit of washing in between coats. the cuirassier officer is actually on a buckskin, which is a pale bay..

some ECW,or TYW, commanders

 A mix of metal and plastic..based for my   A Forest of Pike project
http://passageoflines.50.forumer.com/viewtopic.php?f=25&t=2006
This  group and  the two others are actually for sale  and can be seen in their glory at
http://thecybercarbootsale.blogspot.com/

MICK THE PAINTER'S FIRST POST

Mick has been lurking on the fringes of the Blog for quite some time. He has asked me to post some of his 28mm painting efforts for everyone to enjoy. Mick wanted to point out the Fredericus Rex flower packs he has used for the bases - a nice touch that I will have to use myself.

French Cuirassiers - Vive le Empereur!

French Dragoons the 13th Regiment

Austrian Hussars, the 5th Regiment - Vorwarts!

MORE PLASTIC FROGS

Some more 28mm Victrix hard plastic French infantry painted as Revolutionary War era troops. The red cap is my addition.

The Royal Blue Regiment

Here is the beginning of my new project.  A FOG Early Royalist ECW army.  The reason I have selected this army is because Charles was not adverse to sending his boys to the continent prior to the English Civil War, so they could double as a 30 Years war army as well.  Also I wanted to paint up some more cavaliers!

The figures are a Warlord plastic kit, supplemented by the outstanding Warlord metal command pack. I intend on repainting the flag when I arrive upon a suitable motif! The bases are made from Laminex sample cards- a good mate put me on to these and I am eternally grateful.  They are thin and easy to cut down to size.  On top of that, they are durable and if you place the laminex side face down, you have a smooth surface to move across the table and a wooded surface ready to take the glue for basing. I almost faltered and lost my ECW painting mojo and fell into the trap of diverting to another period (being my Norman project).  Luckily tigerzouave set me straight, and I am painting again with a vengeance!
Next up on the painting table is the "red" regiment and another Saker Cannon.