Recently completed.

While there haven't been much action of the napoleonic kind going on here I have done some painting at least. Three units of french light infantry, these were on sale and I bought three boxes on a whim last Christmas. They have been in a half complete state for a long time but I finally completed them. I did some head swaps and put some pre-bardin style shakos and bearskins on the elite companies. I also built a bugler from a skirmisher with victrix bugler arms.
The old guard was a christmas present , they have been completed for a long time but have never left my project shelf.
I built a unit of prussian hussars by simply putting left over heads from a prussain infantry set on french hussars. They might not be completely accurate but they will suffice until plastic prussian cavalry sets are released or my hobby budget improves enough to buy metal cavalry.

Latest painted.

I haven't had any big "must do" projects the latest days so I have been doing some random painting here and there. Fifteen casualty-markers are done, five of them are metal Prussians from Warlord games. Now we might get out of using dice placed next to the unit suffering from casualties.

Also a small unit of dismounted Dragoons. These models come with the Perry Miniatures Dragoons set. I really like the look of them. Sort of like an Napoleonic spec-ops unit, even thou they are far from it I reckon. I have one more unit of these to paint.
Also on a side note, Hekke has started painting an unit of Swiss infantry. Using the Perry french infantry set and fallowing the painting-guide in it to make them Swiss looking. 

Finished church photo session.

A Prussian Landwehr Regiment done.

,There we go. Three battalions of Prussian Landwehr finished and ready for the game table. They have green facings, one battalion has black coats and another grey trousers for variety. Not the most flamboyant bunch but surely will do fine on the game table.
This is one of six planned regiments for my Prussian force. I will do two regiments of line infantry, each three battalions strong, and two regiments of reserve infantry, also three battalions each. These will be from Perry Miniatures new Prussian sets, when they get released.
I have three battalions of plastic landwehr waiting to get prepared right next to me, I wonder if I can get them done before the Perry Prussian sets come out? I hope not, I'd like to paint some regular infantry before painting more of this drab bunch.

Landwehr before Dragoons

,... well one battalion at least. I had to test paint and try some techniques. I went with a simple straight forward paint job. Black base coat, heavy drybrush "Necron Abyss", then drybrush "Mordian Blue", then simply fill in the rest more or less. So here it is, a mediocre paintjob producing a table top standard wargames unit. I'm happy with it, especially since I painted it in an weekend, even less.
I based the unit on four Renedra 60x45mm cavalry bases. I cut of 5mm length wise so to match the depth of the rest of my troops. The command is split between the two centre companies. This is supposed to be a 32 fig unit, and the box only comes with 30 figs so I put the banner bearer and the drummer so that they are taking up both ranks, last photo illustrates this.
I managed to paint all the dragoon horses to completion before jumping on this, the rides laying there waiting impatiently.  

Plastic Prussian Landwehr

These showed up way sooner than I expected. There I was painting away on my Dragoon horses and this comes in and interrupts everything, merde! ;)
I ordered the "Lingy box deal" only a few days ago. It was really exiting opening these boxes, I have have only seen pictures of these minis on warlord games website and those are pro-painted and everything so of cause they look good. Now I get to see them first hand!
The metal miniatures come in a zip-lock bag with a brass banner pole, these look really good and easily compare to any other good 28mm manufacturer out there. The plastic minis come packed in three small bags, each with three sprues, each sprue with three minis, clever. The plastic minis stand on round disks very reminiscent of perry minis. The sculpts can't really compare to Perry minis, they are good, way beyond "good enough", and I'm sure they will look great on the game table. All in one piece march attack pose they are exactly what a wargamer needs. Also enclosed is a useful pamphlet giving you basic info on the Landwehr and some on the Prussian army in general, and all the flags you need.
I'm truly exited to get painting on these, I might even put the Dragoons on halt. And yes, this officially means I'm starting a second army!