At the Half Way Mark!

The third regiment for my French Infanterie de Ligne Brigade are the 26me. The figures are from Great War Miniatures, along with their flag, from North Star. I've managed to paint twelve figures of the 24 which will make up the regiment so far. With no game in GHQ this week I thought I'd post a sort of 'Progress Report' to avoid folk fearing I'd gone AWOL! 

When I complete the remaining twelve figures I will just need to paint the figures for the Brigade's command stand to round off this part of the the Crimean War project. As I mentioned in an earlier blog post you might recall, the equally small Guards Brigade will be waiting until next Spring to reach their time on the painting desk, all things being equal. Meanwhile, I have a short piece on my Crimean War friparies in the new issue of Wargames Illustrated if you are minded to buy a copy.

In anticipation of events I have two additional Late Roman units spray undercoated ready to start after those. They are a Light Cavalry unit and another of skirmishing Light Infantry. Both are from the Foundry range of figures sourced from Colonel Bill's, along with some extra infantry figures. Phil kindly provided me with some spare LBMS transfers for most of their shields. Starting out with the painting of these two units will hopefully mark the onset of my 'Ancient Autumn & Winter' schedule!