Winter Quarters

It's a pleasant, sunny winter's day here in the Midlands and, what is more relevant, the humidity is relatively low too. When you add to that a lack of chores and stuff making unreasonable demands on my time then all the stars have aligned for me to tackle the two Really Useful Boxes full of figures painted over the winter so far and awaiting varnishing. 

My preferred matt varnish medium is the Humbrol Acrylic Matt spray varnish which I deploy over the winter in front of an electric hot air heater/blower in GHQ. The hot air blowing over the varnished figures helps the varnish to set quickly and fully matt. (In summer months when I varnish outside in the sun I occasionally get the odd satin finish when the humidity is marginal.

The 'Newly Varnished' figures hardening off in the sun. These are the figures I've worked on over the last three or four months I'd guess, all bar one unit of Hanoverian infantry regiment Hardenberg for my French SYW army. The Hanoverians are by Front Rank while the French are from Casting Rooms Miniatures at Foundry.

Later this month there is a photoshoot scheduled to take place for Wargames Illustrated to accompany a piece I've written about the SYW expansion project. I've almost completed the second Hanoverian infantry regiment, Jung Zastrow, and plan to try and complete a command base of two mounted general's and a battery of artillery for the Hanoverian section of the Allied army. To these I can add some Hessians from my AWI collection to stiffen the Allies as it will be a while until the other figures in the Lead Pimple can be tackled.