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Work bench Update, my last days of summer 30/8-6/9 Whats on the workbench? Trying to manage my projects

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So, Where to start...I thought let's do a post a bit differently. I just had my first week back at school, Monday 2nd of Septembre was my first day back to Uni. This year I will finish my bachelor in photography, and after nine years of studying after high school, I am happy when it all will be done! Throughout the last years, I have always been looking for ways to combine my busy school life, relationship and the love for my toy soldiers. Often in the heat of the photography projects, I am okay with shifting the hobby more to the background but after summer and before the summer break I always find it more difficult to shift the hobby to the back. So the past week, the last days of August I started to become a bit nervous for the upcoming year to come, but also I felt like speeding up my paint projects. I have many ''projects'' on the shelve or in boxes that I need to catch up on. Earlier this year I decided that I would not start painting new figures or m...

ITALERI 1/32 NAPOLEONIC AUSTRIANS

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YES! This week I managed to finish a long-term project. The Italeri Napoleonic Austrians that I had started with early spring this year. Loads of school work and other projects made it take so long...In between I painted the Wurtemberg Jagers, in the summer I got some 2nd hand HaT Chasseurs that I started painting and on some very warm summer days I started converting HaT's avant-garde into Austrian Jagers 1809. I only started painting these Jagers recently so they will follow very soon! However, I am drifting off, here they are...I am happy they are done...I decided at some point when I had painted already most of them to add green stuff moustaches to some figures. It did them well, so I decided to do it with all of them. Also, I started using a different method for painting the faces which I find effective and appealing, the moustaches give the figures more character... Both Grenadiers and Fusiliers with red turnbacks are painted as Infantry of the Emperors First Regiment In...