Blather, Waffle and Poppycock!

[paulr]

Definitely no snow here

[Techno II]

We had 'thunder snow' at one point. 

I think that's the third time I've encountered that since we've been here.

Cheers - Phil.

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

Lucky you, I've got to drive uphill to Dunstable tomorrow am.

[Last Hussar]

Its not the snow, its the "to Dunstable".

[whubble]

No chance of snow here, 35.8 in Melbourne (Australia) .. not much joy with cricket either

[FierceKitty]

No chance of snow here, 35.8 in Melbourne (Australia) .. not much joy with cricket either

That's what cricket's all about, sport!  

[Lord Kermit of Birkenhead]

Ciovering of snow here this morning

[Techno II]

Don't think we've had any further snow......The little that thawed yesterday has frozen.

When the dogs went out yesterday they were leaving tracks.....This morning ?......They haven't made a dent in any of it.

I've almost certainly got the joy of walking into the village later  .....(A few provisions, and post something up to Pendraken Towers)...The road itself might not be too bad later, but if I actually manage to get the car out, onto the road......I doubt I'll be able to get it back up the drive again.

Cheers - Phil

[Steve J]

Frozen snow and ice everyhwere here, but the sun is out and it's all rather lovely .

[Lord Kermit of Birkenhead]

Til you try and walk on it

[Steve J]

I did walk on it to the shops and back and it was OK as it was several degrees below zero, so not slippery. Now I'm sure it's a rather different matter.

[fsn]

So 2020 2021 is the year of Nobby's Napoleonics.

I have a system, for I am full of cunning, and so wise that I am mistaken for the straight man of a well known 1970s comedy duo.

Start with the easy ones. For Napoleonics, that is usually the line infantry, then alternate between the peacocks and the pigeons.  That means I will do something like line infantry, cavalry, line infantry, artillery, line infantry ...   you get the idea. I have been very nervous of painting the Napoleonics, because I have not been sure enough of my brushwork. However, I am not getting any younger and the task isn't going to get easier so in I went.

I am going for a brigade level game. This gives me biggish units - a ratio of about 1:10 - so a British infantry battallion of 600 is 60 figures. I chosen this because I think handling a line 30 figures wide is going to be a more interesting proposition than handling a line say 12 figures wide.  Consequently, my artillery batteries are 2 guns (I nearly made it 3) but I've added ammunition wagons to each, to make them more bulky and unmanageable. I've also gone for a 6 man crew, and used the extra guns as a separate piece that can be put on the limber to show the battery is in action. (See the limber in the middle ground.)

So here is my first Napoleonic effort of 2021. A 6pdr RHA battery. It's still short one limbered gun ... but that's on order.




Up next, a British infantry battalion.

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

Oh very nice sir!

[Orcs]

They look very nice FSN.

If you should choose to do Austrians I have been very pleased with the GW Contrast white (Pause while Orcs washes his mouth out with soap and water)   

[fsn]

Thanks chaps.

Orcs, Austrians are very much on my mind - but the white on white is off-putting. Contrast paints may well be the way to go.  I have Wurttembergers, Bavarians, Prussians and Brunswickers to paint. Austrians and Russians are on my list. The one army I am finding it difficult to get excited about is, ironically, the French. Aside from the Carabiniers - and two regiments of heavy cavalry doth not an army make. 

Maybe by the time I get this lot done., Pendraken would have done some Swedes, so I look to Leipzig.