Jumping the painting queue

As I anticipated 30 Hungarian infantry have jumped the queue on the painting table.  Five bases, for Honours of War you see, at six figures a base, its slow progress. It’s Regiment Haller which has a very pretty uniform.  

In between drying times for undercoating, block painting, inking, highlighting and varnishing other projects have momentarily surfaced.  This is good for morale. 

They come in happy, handy numbers like six, six figures are good.  So, units of:

Hun Nobles, from Donnington.  We have very little idea of what Huns looked like so I went for a mix of eastern and western styles.

Restoration Heavy Cavalry also from Donnington.

and Grenadiers origin ditto.

have made it to completion or are near enough ready for Rampant’in or Lamenting.

While we are looking on things piecemeal here are some lovely Fantassin Dutch and Poles for my Peninsular project.  Fantassin were not always as good as this, but when they were they were very good indeed.  

I must get round to photographing my Peninsular armies.

Restoration? You Might Want Some of These

I wrote back in summer about the joy of characterful biggies and my plans to use Mick Yarrow Miniatures Sedgemoor and Donnington Wars of Louis XIV figures together. For TPL games you understand. 

So not huge armies.

Lo, the Donnington’s have arrived. No pictures are on their website which of course makes buyers wary.

What can I say? First these are very nice figures with sufficient variety not all of which is shown here.  These are straight out of the packet.

Second, as you can see they do match with Mick Yarrow’s stuff. Here are some Donnington cavalry half way through painting.

Thirdly, let the camera tell the story. Finished Dragoons, I say finished but I can see some facial hair is needed.

If you fancy Restoration antics, and who secretly doesn’t?  You might want some of these.