18mm Spanish - Day Three

Ok, so - a close call. I had a worrying moment (well few hours) where I thought I'm already screwing this up. Yesterday I said I'd blocked in the collars, cuffs, lapels and turnbacks red on some figures. I then realised that all Spanish line regiments had white turnbacks (some were piped red) so that is an error. There were a couple of line regiments at Tamames that had red facings but neither of them had red collars - but then the Betanzos Regiment (24 figures, 2nd Line) came to my rescue. The Betanzos Regiment was a Provincial Militia unit which had the red collars and turnbacks. Of course, figuring this out took me quite awhile - the penalty for just piling in.

So no progress to speak of on Sunday (Day Two) - an hour or so painting soldiers red. And today even less progress - about half an hour of the same. 18 figures now done to this stage. This is really a bit useless as I'll need to paint a further six figures just to hit the 24 I need to complete the battalion. Still - managing to spend even half an hour on three successive days is a lot more painting than I've done in the last six months.

I'm also conscious I haven't posted any work in progress pictures but my camera seems to be temperamental  today. So here is a pic from (I think) the Aspern Essling game at Salute 2012 - 18mm (mostly AB / BH) Austrians and French put on by Dave Brown and the Loughton Strike Force.

No posts tomorrow I'm afraid as I have to attend a sales and marketing meeting (despite my working in finance). As it is also a young colleagues 30th birthday I suspect the evening will get rather messy and I will spend Wednesday with a headache - hopefully I'll have recovered by the time I get home and will be able to do a bit more. On the other hand we'll be trying some cracking Burgundies during the day so that should be good.