New pictures

Perry Prussian fusiliers painted as grenadiers

 Skirmishers out front

 Kawe's (Grossberren) surgical team

 Perry Russian command

 Barclay de Tolly looking aristocratic git (wait until 1917!)

 Perry Carabiners skirmishing

 Perry French marshal

 Close up of Ney

 Staff officers

 Foundry French cavalry general

 Some decent shots of the Poles



Heroic Poles and commands

 We recently had a Borodinesue battle at Chez Blaireau featuring 2,000+ figures. The players were moi, Ken P, Big Red Bat, and Will "the cabbage" De Pretre. And Puss.............

 The Russians won but BRB is covering the battle on his blog but I wanted to show some pictures of my Perry Russian command.

 Perry's - lovely to paint, f*cking horrible to preoare.

 I love this shot Simon took of Ney!

 Napoleon et boys.

 Kutusov (Ken?) is p*ssed and Bagration (RTB obviously) looks dashing.

 The only French unit that performed well was the Poles!  They very nearly swung the battle on their own! Note the inpet Bavarian light infantry..................

 1st and 2nd battalion of the 5th regiment.

 Below are some very old Foundry French line infantry painted by me. I think they may be the first I ever painted actually.  I dont think they ever made it to the front line!

Paul Hicks designed Poles

 Designed by Paul Hicks

 Casting and moulds by Griffin

 Bases by Warbases

Flag by GMB

Painting my me!

Mr Hicks has a sense of humour - JPR Williams

 1st battalion of the 5th regiment in 1812-14

 Sean Fitzpatrick on the left

 Unpainted Poles are available for sale from me now.

 Some of the faces are brilliant

 The full battalion

 With skirmishers and command

Hope you like

Swiss and Lasalle

 These Foundry figures were painted a few years back and are now in the collection of Arch Duke Charles (link to his site is on your right).

 He liked these figures so much he was always nagging me to sell them to him so I did.
He has taken the pictures and rebased them. I think he has done a great job on them.

 These are Victrix Swiss that are in my collection. I thnk my painting style has improved a great deal but I really like the Foundry French infantry in campaign gear. 

I sold ADC this chap as well - Lasalle from Front Rank - again my painting and his basing.

Hope you enjoy.

My first ever terrain piece and some Guard Chasseurs a pied

 We've got a big game coming up end of April - so called Borodino light - or an excuse to get the toys out! To this end we needed a big hill on which to place the Russian batteries. Please see above for my first efforts at terrain construction with an old / new French guard chasseur battalion.

 Most of the unit was painted about two years ago but I got hold of the above about six months ago.

 They have now been painted bringing the unit upto 36 figures. There is a problem though: my painting has improved and I also forgot which blue I had used for the old figures. Oh well, I think they look ok!

 Here's the completed board with a Russian battery on it for scale.

 Close up of the battery.

 From a bit further away showing the slope.

 Construction was based on a 4x4ft square board I acquired from somewhere. The "hill" is made from some old car matts from my old Alfa Romeo (the garage screwed me on price and didnt include matts on my new car so I took the old ones out of spite!) that have been glued to the board.

The "grass" is constructed of matting from a garden centre that is used to fill hanging baskets.  I think it looks good.
Yes, those are tomato plants; I even picked ten more tomatoes yesterday! 
Hope you like.