Sound the advance!

Huzzah! And we are off! This blog is a first for me as I have never attempted anything like it before. I loved following Leon on his first blog and wanted in. Leon and I go way back. In fact his Space Marines stomped all over my Praetorian Guard in my first real game of 40k back in the day (honour was quickly restored when my Orlock gang ambushed and badly shot up his Delaques in our first game of Necromunda). Since then we have grown up (sort of) and although I still dabble in a bit of 40k, our interests have broadened with Historical Wargaming taking center stage.

Wargaming may be a bit of an overstatement as I haven't yet played any games and one of the main reasons for this blog is to get my projects done and on the tabletop. Knowing that Leon and others will be reading through progress will provide all the hobby momentum that I need!

Unfortunately as Leon has mentioned, we live on opposite sides of the world and it is not looking like this will be changing anytime soon. I am hoping to challenge him to a game of Flames of War sometime in the future which will allow us the possibility of getting a battle report on here. Most of what I post will be painted figures, ramblings about painting, building gaming tables, reviews of modelling supplies and a general report on what I've been up to.

That said I am a bit of a hobby butterfly and tend to flirt between several projects at any one time. This means that if I get bored of painting one thing I can move on to something different before returning a few weeks later. I find this keeps my enthusiasm up and I enjoy my painting more.

I currently have three projects on the go. I'll go into more detail about these in the future but I'll briefly introduce them here and include pictures of the first test models completed for each. The first of these is a British Para Company for Flames of War based on the Market Garden Campaign.

Secondly I have a Vostroyan Imperial Guard army for 40k on the go. Say what you want about GW I still think that they have created one of the richest Sci-fi universes there is and they are still world leaders in the production of miniatures!

Lastly is the project that I am most excited about. My 28mm British and French (Napoleonic) Peninsular War armies. The following is my first test base of the 1/88th Connaught Rangers (The Devil's Own).

There you have it. I'll delve into each of the three projects in turn and explain 'the plan', outline paint schemes and review models as we go.

"In war there is but one favourable moment; the great art is to seize it!"

Napoleon Bonaparte