More Shiny Men.

Now it has been some time since my last blog post. What with one thing and another 2 months have slipped away almost unnoticed so it is well past time for another post.

 I am currently giving India a bit of a rest  and putting most of my currently limited painting time into assorted shiny fellas. This not least because they will be having a public outing in November at the Battleground wargames show in Middlesbrough- at least that is the plan.

Frecbh Carabiniers in the later 'posh cuirassier' uniform. Mostly Hinchliffe Foremost. 

 The 'Shinyloo' Napoleonic collection currently stands at something over 400 models which is not huge but does- even though I say so myself, look pretty tasty. The game at the show will be well... 'a bit like Waterloo- only shinier! - and of course a lot smaller. Not trying for a refight in any shape or form but only pinching the basic scenario for the game. Rule will be, as always for 'Shinyloo' games, the venerable 'Charge- or How To Play Wargames' by Young and Lawford- though I shall be grafting on some better morlae rules probably pinched for Charles Grant's 'The Napoleonic Wargame.

Some offiers- The Artillery officer is Connoisseur Infantry Colonel the same but on a Willie Horse. The Eagelbearer is a converted Stadden.

A Highland Charge- a right nixture of a unit this with Stadden, Connoisseur, Minot ,Willie and Hinchliffe Foremost. More to do here. I am waiting for a small order from Bicorne which will include a colour party . Wirdly I have had an email from them saying they HAVE NOT  shipped it. Still trying to work out the point of that 1 

Regular readers will know that the whole 'Shinyloo' project started as an Homage to and a pastiche of wargaming in the 1970s  using models I could never afford back then  but it has grown over the years rather more than somewhat. The basis is still 30mm models by Stadden Suren and Minot but I also have some hard to find Minifigs 30mm and I have bulked up some units with Hinchliffe Foremost and Connoisseur. Al ranges that were around before 1985- most before 1980.

So here are a few pictures of recently finished units and additions- still plenty more to do. 

Frenc Voltigeurs all Stadden 30mm the two NCOs have had plumes added.