Sunday, 2 January 2022

Some other products of the painting table over the festive season have been for my Fescennia Napoleonics "imag-nation" campaign - a light company for the Arcadian Foreign Legion, a Jäger company for the Nemean army, a light company for the Fescennian Trading Company's garrison at Bowlport, and a regiment of Line infantry for the Arcadian army.

The Arcadian Foreign Legion's Light Company - Hinchliffe 25mm metal French figures.
The Nemean Jäger Company No.2 - very old Hinchliffe 25mm metal figures, first bought in the 1970s and now given a new lease of life as a fictional unit. The difference in detail between models from then and those from now is particularly noticeable!
The Bowlport Customs and Excise Company - 25mm metal British Napoleonics, I think, bought cheap at SELWG 2021. I don't know who the manufacturer was for these models.
The Arcadian 5th Line Regiment. The figures are 28mm hard plastic Victrix French Middle Guard - this box is a bargain as you get 60 figures for £25, so I can usually get two regiments of 24 figures out of it, plus an extra odd company. They are nice poses, pretty easy to glue together (very helpful when you have big fingers!) and easy to paint as well.


A Happy New Year to everyone and I hope you had an enjoyable festive season. I received some paints and scenic basing material, all very useful, and my lovely wife gave me one of her random fantasy model selections for my Petaudia mediaeval/fantasy campaign - an Arch-Revenant Warhammer figure from Citadel Miniatures. I thought at first it must be an undead, a revenant being someone who returns from the grave, but on closer inspection I discovered it was a kind of wood dryad, with a giant insectoid harnessed to its back which carries it in flight, neither of which indicate anything at all to do with the undead! Anyway, I had a go at the model, which I think is a very interesting piece, and painted it as best I could according to the suggestions on the box, however, my Vallejo paints did not quite match those colours recommended, nor are my painting skills up to those of the box image! Nonetheless, I am pleased with the end product. Now I have to work out how to incorporate it into my campaign!