These are the dates that will be featuring prominently on the blog over the coming year - especially in the case of the former as the anniversary is in June!
I have had a relatively productive day today as the six RN battleships have been successfully varnished (phew!) and the bases merely need the 'waves and wakes', the ensign and all-important ship name to be finished. I have also managed to give the second dry brush coat to the remaining twelve battleships before tackling the last of the Germans. I have also been taking a long look at the Panzerschiffe catalogue in readiness for the order of cruisers. I will tackle these first and will finish up with the destroyers.
As far as the Waterloo project is concerned I managed to find all my old notes concerning the orders of battle and how to represent them. I think I am pretty much decided on how this will play out and so the work involved will be fairly minimal - famous last words!
It will be a block based project so look away now if this is not your bag! A quick review of what I have ready has shown up a few minor gaps but nothing too onerous. the one departure from the norm though is that I shall be using some form of naming convention for the relevant commanders. It will serve to add to the flavour and is something I have been considering for all my bock based adventures.
The best thing about the 1815 project though is that much of the work has already been tackled so fine-tuning the various notes I have made should be pretty straightforward.
It may even reignite my long dormant Napoleonic gene and set me off on a figure painting frenzy.....
Or maybe not....
2 comments:
I'm looking forward to seeing both of these projects come to fruition, especially the ships!
Happy New Year!
Hi EG,
The ships are progressing well and I hope to have the RN capital ships finished in a couple of weeks and I then plan to have a fleet review on the blog.
Then it will be the turn of the Germans - I have 13 left for them.
All the best,
DC
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