Merry christmas everyone

more content on the way - and soon a sum-up of this year for me in modelling

An explanation

Hello everybody
For those of you that have been following this blog over the last week or so will have noticed that it has been a while since I last posted on this blog. I have been working on it, and there will be a post by this weekend. I will leave it up to you to speculate about what it is that I have been doing.

And it's finished!!

As many of you (I would hope all of you) are aware, recently I have been working on a holiday themed Napoleonic diorama, featuring a French Cuirassier feeding his horse during the French retreat from Russia of 1812. I am happy to announce that I have finished with this diorama, although I am as yet undecided about the name of it.

If you have any ideas about what the nae should be, or any tips on how I could improve on it, please leave a message in the comments section below. The most highly suggested name will become (if I approe of it) the title of my diorama.

More progress on my Napoleonic Christmas diorama

Hello there folks.
With the holiday season drawing nearer and nearer, as many of you have probably guessed from my previous post, I decided that it was time to honor the French retreat from Russia in the winter (or summer for me) of 1814. I decided to show a singular French Cuirassier, obviously seperated from the main body of the army, feeding and comforting his horse, probably after a Russian raid. I think it show's the nicer parts of the harsh enviroment that the French had to fight their way through, with less than a 30,000 men making their way back to France. At the moment I have almost completed painting on the figures, and will in the next day or so be finishing them off and working on the landscape that they are standing in. Please leave a comment below to advise me as to what I should name it.

A hint at my next project

The recature of Field-Marshal von Morris

Today came the battle, between the French and Prussian, for the recapture or execution of the Prussian Field-Marshal. It started out with small armies on each side, a force of 15 cavalry and 10 infantry for the Prussians, and 2 cannon and the capturers of 4 infantry for the French. The Prussians were quick to err, sending their cavalry into charge straight at my cannons. My big guns shot at the Prussians, quickly halting the advance and leaving 6 of 8 dead, and routing one of the remaining two. I then moved the guards into a safer position behind the cannons. He moved in to the attack again, this time killing one of my cannon crew before getting shot off by my infantry. I fired my cannons again, killing two of his infantry, and he took his next turn. It went a lot like this for a while until I had lost 1 cannon's worth of crew, and he had lost his entire cavalry and about 1/4 of his infantry. Things were getting desperate for him, but I only had 2 infantry and 1 cannon left. So he charged, all 7 of his remaining infantry, supported by a single cavalryman. It was hillarious. For a while at least. Until he elimintated my cannon and infantry and the Field-Marshal took off. He had one infantryman and one cavalryman left, plus the Field-Marshal, but he had won.

A tiny battle

Now that I've finally posted Friday's post, I can get back to writing the everyday relatively short posts about the stuff that I do most days. Today was one of those days, so we decided to do a very small game (3 people, 10 troops each), with Prussians and Russians vs French. This was a battle to the last man, and was started by the Prussians. The game progressed relatively quickly, with me taking the defensive while the other two fought it out. But then something rather odd happened. I realised that, leading the Prussian army, was Mr M's best general, the one who had so far survived every battle that he had played in, and he was pinned by the Russians. They captured him and sent away 2 men to escort him. I saw a weak spot left in the Russian defence, with most of their army away, and quickly surrounded and killed Sir Paintwell, the commander of the Russian army. So a quite succesful game all up for me.