Winter is Coming!

As I write this I'm sitting out in the 'Summer Palace' {aka the family room extension off our kitchen} enjoying a sunny late summer morning, so why is this post referencing winter you may ask? The short answer is that I've been stocking up in the Lead Pimple/Lump in preparation for those long winter evenings to come. I've been prone to SAD most of my adult life it seems, I really detest the long dark evenings, so having lots of figures in store ready to go under the brush has proved a useful antidote over the years.

As chum George can testify I had been toying with two new 28mm imagination armies, he'd even kindly worked up some flag prototypes for me, but in the end courage failed me and my lists in waiting were put away. Instead I have been building up a stock of figures to expand my SYW armies. 

Firstly, I bought more French figures from Foundry s Casting Room Miniatures offshoot: a Line Infantry regiment, already underway as Bretagne; two new Grenadier battalions for the Grenadiers de France and the Royal Grenadiers; and extra cavalry and dragoon figures to convert 12 figure regiments into two 8 figure ones. At the same time I have found enough British Grenadiers to populate four more bases lurking in said Lead Pimple/Lump!

While any sensible chap or chapess would probably regard that as enough to be getting on with for several months, even years, muggins here got well carried away. Two orders to Gripping Beast, for Front Rank figures, and one to Foundry have seen the beginnings of a small Hanoverian force. Jon is largely to thank for the decision here as he gifted me some Foundry cavalry which could make up a Hanoverian dragoon regiment in both mounted and dismounted iteration. I've added a small Hussar regiment from Foundry to these just for the colour if nothing else. The Front Rank contingent provided two Hanoverian foot regiments to which I'll later add to make a brigade I hope.

Getting carried away I also made an order to North Star for some Crusader Miniatures Prussians which with the addition of British officers could make more Hanoverian infantry, or even perhaps a small Prussian brigade to fight alongside the Hanoverians and the British! Of course the Hanoverian element will need some artillery so I added them into the two orders as well as a mounted General and his ADC to command the force. 

When finances permit I intend to make a further order to Front Rank/Gripping Beast for more Hanoverian figures while the issue of flags I intend to solve by free downloads I found on the Internet. Now, right now I have no capacity to store any of these once completed here in GHQ, so something will have to be moved on. Right now the favourite choice for such relocation would be my Late Roman/Arthurian/Saxon collection so I'm open to sensible offers if anyone is interested... When all is said and done, winter is coming after all.