Stan's Armée 1/32 54mm Napoleonic plastic soldiers

  ACW marching set 1 and 2 prototypes  A small and fun commission for HaT Industries that I received mid-June last year.  After a long hiatus, I am back! But where to start? Lets go back to 2020 shortly after my graduation, life was coming at me. I also started using Instagram and felt it was much more accessible and easy to maintain. I was uncertain if anybody besides me and a handful of loyal supporters were reading and enjoying these posts! I hope you all will return!? And if you are reading this, welcome back and I am happy to find you here! When recently someone named Parsifal complimented me about my blog via Instagram,  I felt that spark again...I noticed that even after four years of NOT posting the blog gets views every day and I was surprised by the amount of total views!  In 2022 I got post covid (long COVID,  meaning long-term COVID, chronic fatigue) which not only made life severely more challenging, but it also made painting much more exh...

I painted the test sprues also as Musketeers of the Sachsen Gotha Regiment (Austrian Netherlands) so they can go with the prototypes I painted about a year ago. I've been closely in touch with HaT and they worked hard to adjust the problems (flaws) that some of these figures have, they are restored and I am confident these figures will be outstanding when they hit the stores! Today I finished these figures and this same day I received the Grenadier test sprues that do not have any problems and looks better than most 1/32 sets I have seen! Now I cannot wait for the 1/32 NAPOLEONICS to hopefully soon be made again!  Angriff! Both test sprues and prototypes! (Scenery are some fun dye projects by me, I am still learning ;-) )  Complete test sprue painted!  Complete test sprue painted, rearview.      The figure in the middle is my all-time favourite! It is well sculpted, neat and a nice pose! My  compliments to HaT! ...

While I finished my Musketeers last night and was photographing them, these came in the mail! Man they look great! HaT really surpassed all my expectations! No remarks or criticism unlike with the musketeers..! These figures are amazing! More great news! ; The Hat French Light infantry sets in 1/32 meaning the 9302 French Voltigeurs - 9304 French Chasseurs - and the 9303 Carabiniers! Also the command set will be re-stocked! Boy oh boy I have send some many e-mails about this and posted it so many times on the HAT-forum and luckily others felt the same! So I hope that it will be in this year they will be available again!