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...

And finally the pictures of the Chasseurs based and ready for battle! I used mainly tufts of Gamers Grass which are my favourites!   

The last months work for the final phase of my bachelor in photography has sooked up most of my time (writing my thesis, graduation work etc). Though I did manage to occasionally paint here and there, making a slow process on certain projects. Two weeks ago I finally managed to document the paintwork I have done since roughly the first week of October. Enjoy some pictures and some toy soldier rambling! A call to Arms Life Guards converted to Austrian Light Dragoons.  I think these deserve to go first to stick to more or less chronological order. I think I converted these A call to Arms British life Guards somewhat by the end of September into Austrian Light Dragoons or Chevau Legere...To be precise the 5th Regiment Klenau as they would have looked more or less by 1809. I digged these up out of my collection, both the figures on the left had no sabres anymore. So the 2nd from the left I gave a new sabre, the other received a pistol. All men received the typical deta...