Another Casualty
The poor French line infantry colonel featured in the last but one post had already had his plume and sword bent when the Napoleon of this project closed a box lid on him without checking first if the box was deep enough to accommodate a mounted figure. So it wasn’t a surprise during a photo shoot when a camera fell on him that his plume finally gave up and broke off. Another job for super glue – with lots of finger crossing that it won’t happen again!The Last Soldier
What with my seemingly endless reorganising of unit numbers to make games hopefully more playable, I found myself painting a last figure of my first French infantry division a number of times. In the end, the honour of being the very last figure – and painted on its own – went to one that happened to have a stuck-on green stuff bag.
Sometimes I struggle to make out what’s what on a
10mm figure. The worst that can happen is possibly
just an unruly paint job. I had had trouble tidying
up the lapels on some Pendraken French
marching infantry castings. The
last figure of the French infantry division to be painted was one of these. On closer
inspection, it appeared that the top of the lapel sat vertically rather than horizontally
so the buttons crossed the chest instead of rising to the shoulder. It doesn’t help that
I’m easily confused but it did look like something had gone skew whiff.
40,000?
40,000 visits? I could
have been knocked
over with a piece of
static grass when I
saw that blog visits
had jumped to 40,000
in the short space of
time since I was
huzzaing over 30,000
visits in mid-Septem-
ber (see Post 107) –
especially since the
Blog was basically off
duty during October
when visits achieved
new heights. Thanks
to each and every
visitor, especially to
the guys who leave
comments on the
forums and also to
the quiet ones who
don’t.
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