front rank WIP shots guard artillery foot and horse Carabinier inf plus foot line artillery

 Hi everyone well this week i havent had a lot of painting time but did manage to knock out 16 front rank Carabiner light infantry hopefully i will be able to get a fine day to get  some nice pictures once based

Below i have 4 guard foot artillery 2 guard horse artillery and two line artillery only two guns left to paint and the artillery is complete it will give me around 24 artillery pieces for the French
I've started the next project Chassuer cav which i need to have completed in three weeks actually my whole army need to be ready to travel up the Christchurch before they head on up the Wellington for the big game.
My contribution is 7 reg old guard 5 middle guard 3chassuer cav 12 line regiments empress dragons heavy guard cav and a heap of artillery i dont think the lancers are needed now. oh well fun to paint maybe ill sell them, i will be parting with some of my French if any of you are interested over the weekend.

Front Rank Polish Lancers Finished, Middle Guard & Line inf based

I've really enjoyed painting these 24 Lancers, i was viewing Hussar Bobs blog and saw one he had done

so nice couldn't help myself so 12 days later they are complete

I've also based the two regiments of middle guard and one of line but i hadn't taken any pictures so here they are hope you like

28mm Front Rank Lancer 7 days in wip shots plus finished middle guard and bits

Below are a few shots of 24 polish lancers that i started last Tuesday they are starting to look the part now, the horses need a final highlight and the are quite a few small details yet to do but i hope to have them finished and based early next week so that i can start the old guard artillery(6 guns) and polish infantry( 3-4 Regiments, i also have some light French cav that i have started that need doing.

when the cav is finished ill try and get some better shots.

 I also need to do one more regiment of middle guard to finish giving me four regiments in total the acw were a few last miniute bits that i needed for our big game a couple of weeks back

28mm front rank French wip

 Well here we are again with a few figures that i started last week they arnt quite finished in these pictures but last night i finished  them plus added an extra figure for the line regiment, i still have a few bags of line infantry to go before i start the polish but I'm getting there.

I painted these guys for a big game later in the year up in Wellington.

 

28mm Numidian foot

Hi Guys long time since my last post sorry about that here we have some more of My Carthaginian  army Numidian infantry and a few rebased Celts which were painted 4 years ago really interesting to see how my painting style has changed in four years

 I have tried changing the way i paint skin lately still not quite how i want it but im getting there on theses guys i added a wash to finish but next time might add another two layers of paint after the wash for dpeth and brightness

 Old figures rebased

 still have a few bits to add to the basing but not a lot left to do, next some crusades archers and some Napoleonic French

For Sale 28mm ACW, French, Romans /15mm FOW Soviets

Hi Guys i know it's been a while since my last post i have been painting but a lot slower than my normal pace.

What we have here today are a bit of a clearout of my cupboard so i can raise some funds for new projects

If you have any interest in the items below please contact my at kcgalpin@xtra.co.nz to discuss prices and postage

First up is a Perry  union acw 6 horse limber brand new ready to go 

Lot1 $120

Next up is a foundry roman army, there is 1 box of warlord plastic auxillery and 6 warlord games metal cav in there as well .For these guys if they sell as an army i will selling for my painting cost only the lead figures are free. I am prepared to sell as units if no one wants it as  a whole.

 Lot 2 SOLD

 

Here we have a French gun and 4 horse limber

Lot3

 now we have 15mm Fow Soviet  tanks first up KV1's  tows at the back $20 for the four

Lot4 $20 each

 Two lots of 5 tanks brand new T34's $120 each the boxset cost $85 unpainted

Lot5-6

 Two lots T34 plus 2ic cnc plus a T70 option $110 each if you buy all 4 lots i will throw in the 3 tanks at the front

Lot7-8

28mm French artillery battery 1 howitzer, 1 12pdr, 2 6pdr,s, Metal Perry miniatures

Lot 9 $250

 Victrixs 28mm plastics 3 regiments Napoleonic Guard pay for half painting cost ,only figures free

Lots 10,11,12 $110 each, (note i have swapped out the stand at in front rank with hands unpainted for another command stand)

28mm syw British wip shots and faces ?

 as you might have realized i'm not posting quite as much at the moment lifes been quite busy and will only get   more that way as the year goes on. So i've only been painting at lunchtimes at work, So here's what i've been working on 3 Regiments of Syw British this first batch is neasrly complete

 these two still have all the lace work and guns and bags to do but they are starting to look the part

Lastly after visiting the blog inside a painters mind i decided to change the way i paint faces, here's three of fifty i started work on last weekend, they seemed quite fast to paint even with three layers and eyes and lips done