Photo's Round Two

Well just been working through my photos, here is the next lot of the 6mm:

These are one of the building sets from Timecast of the Baccus website, excellent models easy to paint.





The Church:



A Side on Shot:




Next we have some homemade trees:













Finally can't leave out the whitecoats:

First Photos

I will have to break this down over a few nights, but here is the first lot of photos. Better start with the 6mm i guess:

What force could that be I wonder:





Closer up shot of the painted French:





Cavalry:








And finally some Artillery:




So thats the start of many photos to come.

Cheers for looking

NAPCON 2009

Well this year saw the Taupo Grenadiers host the Annual Napoleonics Event in Taupo NZ on the 11th-13th September.I decided to put my hand up to organise this event, and I enjoyed every bit of it. So what did we have on show:

6mm Napoleonics
15mm Napoleonics
28mm Napoleonics
Napoleonic Naval (1:1200)

The rules we used were for the 15mm were an addaptation of In the Grand Manner as well as General de Brigade.I floated between running the 15mm guys, and the 6mm.

We ran a semi-fictional campaign (Just ran out of time to write up the fluff). Points were awarded for:

Battalions in Retreat (As soon as it recieves a retreat order)
Battalions in Rout
Brigades Broken
Generals Lost
Secondary Objectives

Players were also awarded points individually for Victory / Loss in a game, votes for painted army, votes for best oponent, and most napoleonic.

Before I start to post the photos, just a couple of thanks:

Nic and the team @ Eureka Miniatures for there ongoing support from year to year
Craig @ littlmenbigbattles for supporting the event
Steve @ Taupo Hobbies also supporting the event
Ken & Richard @ Battlezone also for supporting the event.

But the event could not have gone ahead without the support of the gamers.It will take me a while to upload the photos, so I will do this over a series of posts

Thanks for looking

Busy Busy Busy

Well its been a couple of busy weeks, not only at home but at work hence the lack of updates.

Well it's almost NAPCON 2009, and still a lot to do. Organised all of the guys (well hopefully) still a little bit of planning to go into the 15mm Naps games.

As for the tree's I have had a lot of fun doing these, and have turned out well. I produced around 30 to start with and Craig is busy basing these up ready for the weekend.

Terrain on the 6mm Table is going to be a little limited, but as time progresses this will grow.

The main thing is we need to start gaming with the figures now. Should be looking at running the game on a 4ft x 4ft table to start with, and should have around 12-14 French Infantry, 4 Cavalry, 6-8 guns vs 12-14 Austrian Infantry, 2 Cavalry and 4-8 guns.

Got my hands on the new Companion book from Baccus, very nice book. Also managed to pick up a cheap copy of Sam Mustafa's OOP Grande Armee.

I will be posting photos from NAPCON after the event, will break it over several days. These should be online around the 15th September. I will make sure that I get some decent lit photos of the French and Austrians as well.

Here's what we have at the event this year

15mm Napoleonics (Main group)
28mm Napoleonics (2 groups)
Napoleonic Ships
6mm Napoleonics (wait thats us)

Also will have to post a photo tuturial for the tree's at some point.

Well best get back to working out the finer points of the weekend

Tree's

Well now that I have most of the 6mm painted (for now) its time for some terrain, so what better place to start than with tree's.

After watching a u-tube video and reading Sven's tutorial on how to make tree's I thought that I would give it a crack.

1st results are not bad, and reasonably happy with the result. So in the coming week (as time permits) I will be placing photos of my progress on the blog.

The goal before NAPCON is to knock out a hundred trees before then and have them based up.

Just stared to prep for the construction phase. So first thing is to cut a lot of florist wire into random lengths, and follow up by folding them in half.

Well watch out for some photos in the coming days of the prep, and construction.

I'm Back

Well its been a funny ol couple of weeks. I have been painting, but not my own troops. Got stuck into some Austrians to help a mate out. 9 Battalions of Infantry (188 figs) and a unit of Hussars later just about ready to get back into it.

18 Austrian Hussars to go, and back onto the task.

So where does that put me, well I now have a fighting force to be able to put onto the table top. I have the following:

19 Infantry Stands
6 Cavalry Stands
8 Artillery Stands
5 Generals
1 CinC

I have decided to break the Infantry down into 3 groups with 2 Cavalry attached to each, and split the Artilery between each group.

The plan is to put this force onto a 4ft x 4ft board at the moment. Speaking of which I went out and got some 9mm MDF boards cut into the following:

2x 3ft x 2 ft boards
2x 1ft x 2ft boards

I am in the process of making a portable gaming board, just have to think about how to do this. So keep an eye on this one.

To add to the above I will get another 2 boards and when all four are put together will give me a 6ft x 4ft table which can be taken anywhere (well just about)

Well thats it for now, busy planning for NAPCON in September so painting may take a hit, I will get some more photos posted of the force at some point soon

Hussars, Chasseurs & Artillery

Well starting to get there now. Below are a few photos of the Cavalry recently finished as well as the re-based guns.

The Generals are on the painting table at the moment. At least when I get some Generals done I can start gaming with the force.

So what have I painted so far:

850+ Infantry
104 Cavalry
8 Artillery pieces and Limbers
24 Generals

This project started back in late May.

After the Generals are done I have:

2 Stands of Cuirassiers
2 Stands of Hussars
2 Stands of Chasseurs
4 Stands of Imperial Guard
2 Stands of Guard Cavarly
4 Stands of Guard Artillery

So without any more waiting here are the Dragoons:




Next Chasseurs:




Hussars:



And Finally some Artillery & Limbers: