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Hi all. You may follow my other blog in the painting blog forum, but that is mainly for my commissioned work and general painting. As this is a specific pet project I have wanted to do for awhile, i have decided to make a dedicated thread to cover my progress.


I have always been a fan of the napoleonic period, in fact I study it academically. I have tried building armies in 28mm but considering that the size of the armies I want to do (close to 1-1 or 1-10representation.) The scale was not working for the speed I wanted to paint line infantry. So I picked up a 1/72nd italeri set and tried it out, loved the time the ligne took me, and picked up another box and then went hunting for deals.

It turns out a friend was getting rid of his stuff, and I have now acquired and have a 5.5 lb box of mini's in the mail to me. It worked out to 1256 mini's.

As it stands though, this is what I have painted. Comments and criticism welcome.

Grenadiers in progress

and the grenadiers done, with thier fellows the fusiliers. up next some voltieguers then command. if anyone has any questions relating to the napoleonic period please ask, i am a history graduate specializing in the era.

Looking good.

What gaming system is this for? What style of warfare dis they use and are you trying to replicate it on the tabletop?

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Black powder by warlord games, although the basing will be modular enough to play multiple systems. And the style of warfare is technically termed linear warfare.

Looking very nice for 1/72. And also great to see here. Are you being accurate with the colors? I hear historicals gamers can get really persnickety about that.

Keep the pix coming.

 Red Harvest wrote:
Looking very nice for 1/72. And also great to see here. Are you being accurate with the colors? I hear historicals gamers can get really persnickety about that.

Keep the pix coming.

You're talking to a man with a history degree. Although not able to claim a focus academically, my focus was on black powder warfare.

The costs should be darker but they had a habit of fading while on campaign.

Reinforcements abound