So frustrated

 Hi all

Another whinge, I am halfway through painting my Piano French Old Guard Grenadiers and thought I would paint the General Lasalle at the same time to add variety. 

It was going pretty well until it came to doing the hussar braiding using Vallejo gold. What a nightmare, my old eyes couldn't follow the casting lines nor see the tip of the size O brush I was using. So I have to admit defeat on the fine detail and just accept I am not good enough to do the figure justice. it is so deeply frustrating.

Here is what the figure should look like (from Piano Wargames website, such an excellent job by Stephan Huber). I will post photos of mine when it is finished.

I thought I should add my figure as it is about 90% finished to the best I can.

Bavarian 2nd Chevau-Leger Regiment 'Konig'

 It has been a VERY long six months, I started these Piano Wargames figures in December 2025 but life dealt a curveball and they had to be put on hold until April. 

I really wanted to do my best as the castings by Lucas Luber are, simply, supurb so I painted the figures mostly, one at a time which also made the project longer. My intention was to try to make each figure an 'individual'. This brings my Bavarian army to completion (I am running out of storage room).

I used these images as my colour guide for the facings etc:

Not having a rear view, I guessed at how it would look from other images of Bavarian Chevau-Leger regiments that did show how the uniform looked from the rear.

Movement tray

My next project is French Imperial Guard grenadiers:

https://pianowargames.de/products/old-guard-grenadiers

https://pianowargames.de/products/old-guard-grenadiers-command

I hope I can do justice to them.

All the best to all... Chris

Still here - update.

 Hi

Sorry I haven't been active but late last year my wife expreienced a traumatic injury which has led to other health issues. As you will appreciate, this has been the priority and looks like staying that way for a couple of months. Hopefully, I will be back to painting the wonderful new Baden figures from Piano Wargames by the middle of the year.

Keep well.

Chris

Bavarian Chevaulegers

 Hi all

I was going to upload a photo of the Piano Wargames Bavarian Chevaulegers that I have spent hours on and nearly finished this morning BUT...

WHAT IS WITH GOOGLE NOW DEMANDING I ALLOW COOKIES BEFORE I CAN UPLOAD PHOTOS TO THIS BLOG? This is new and I am not happy! The Google popup says that they want to use my information (presumably for AI) and if I don't allow it tough. Well, I don't allow it, so my apologies to all that there is no photo for this unit and I need to consider where I go from here.

Cheers

Chris

An update to this, thank you for your advice re cookies, I do always delete any cookies but it is this that concernes me and did not appear in any of my previous posts.

Help needed - again

 Hi all

I am seeking some help again. I am re-cataloguing all my figures starting with the Austrians and have come across anomalies between different sources on the unit names and facing colours of the Austro-Hungarian army (Infantry and cavalry) circa 1809-1813. Does anyone have a definitive source that they can send me please?

Meanwhile, here are some photos of my Austro-Hungarians on the wargames table. Not all my figures are here as some are in mini dioramas in a display cabinet. The majority of the figures are Hinchliffe and painted in the 1970's.

 

 

Fancy a Baden army?

 Hi all

Lucas at Piano Wargames has a wonderful new kickstarter project for the 1809 campaign. There are very few suppliers who make the Grand Duchy of Baden fiigures and these look as fantastic as all his others. Check it out with lots of photos of the models:

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/pianowargames/the-price-of-crowns-the-grand-duchy-of-baden?ref=ksr_email_mktg_auto_user_watched_project_launched

I am currently painting his Bavarian light horse and the sculpts are exceptioonal, Lucas, to me, is the in the top of the figure sculptors along with the Perry's.

Chris

Victrix Carinthian Landwehr battalion finally finished

 Hi all

Well, it has taken me far longer than I had anticipated to finish this unit. I will note that a new grandchild came on the scene (so cute) which caused me to abandon painting for family fun plus I have had a couple of unpleasant health issues to deal with BUT now I feel a sense of achievement.

I have to add here, uploading this to blogger has been an exercise in frustration. It has taken over half an hour!

Regarding Austrian Landwehr, I must thank Peter for the information in his blog:  https://blundersonthedanube.blogspot.com/search/label/Landwehr which is very informative.

For those who might like some of the art I used for the painting, I add these web finds: