My second scene is again with Piano Wargames figures. I view it as an off duty French officer chatting with a Tyrolean hunter, does the hunter's bag over his shoulder contain rabbits for the pot? Is his dog desperate to run off? Is the officer asking for advice. I think we can all put our own thoughts to the scene.
I have managed to get some painting done despite this time of year (winter); being my busy time in the garden before the heat of summer returns around late September. There is quite a lot to do as I have a reasonable sized yard and I do like to grow what food I can (organically) as well as care for my various orchids and other rainforest plants.
Anyhow, two posts today as I did the figures consecutively which seems to work for me. First of all, and I know it is a bit of a cliché, but I thought my French army needed some Guard Grenadiers to go with the Guard cavalry and artillery. So here they are (figures from https://pianowargames.de/)
Here is the finalised 28mm General Lasalle figure as mentioned in my previous post.
For those who don't know who the falmboyant French Napoleonic cavalry general was, this link is good: https://www.frenchempire.net/biographies/lasalle/
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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.
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:
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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
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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
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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.
My second scene is again with Piano Wargames figures. I view it as an off duty French officer chatting with a Tyrolean hunter, does the hun...
