French troops 6mm

Here are some 6mm French I have just finished basing:

Details on the Adler figures is very good and makes painting easier I think.

Cavalry are Berg lancers and Chasseurs

Cavalry is from Adler, infantry base front right is Adler, front and back left are Baccus.

Here is a group of three infantry in greatcoat. I use them to identify my conscript units. They were levied quickly and not all of them managed to get a proper uniform, therefore a greatcoat and a flag should identify them as French soldiers... good enough for conscripts!... Figures are Adler.

Some books

It's good not to be a student anymore. Dollar being rather low, it is a good opportunity to warm up the cash card and get some books from Amazon. Received my all my books now. 160 USD postage included. I don't know whether it is a bargain or not, but to me, after the flat screen bought for the family back in December, this does look like a bargain for many interesting hours of reading...

The Battle reads very well, many anecdotes and little known facts. The battle of Waterloo is described from the view point of the French, Allied and Prussians as they saw their portion of the front, each with his own perception not knowing until the end if the overall battle is won or lost.

It is supposed to be a superb book for the Napoleonic uniforms lover, however I haven't been hooked yet on the drawings, maybe they will grow on me after a more in depth look.


This one is quite superb. It contains so much information about Napoleonic warfare it is almost a sin to pass on it. A very complete book, well presented. A must have. My first impression was that it was a bit disorganized, however, if I had to buy one only from all those books, this would be the one.

Functional Atlas. I have heard there's another one better done. However, this one will fit my needs.

The Chandler! Quite a large book. Ok every body talked about it, everybody read it. I think I am set for quite some time now with this one, just need time to actually open it and start reading...


This book looks more promising that the Osprey ones. I need to read more in detail.



These two books are standard Osprey books. Meaning that they contain the basics, however it is shortened to the minimum to fit the standard Osprey format.

Who said Prussians were boring?

here are some Prussians for my 1815 6mm project. I highlighted the facings, the shakos, the bayonets and the blanket rolls. I painted the faces, added the flags, added skirmishers and mounted officers. I made the bases using hobby sand and grass, with 3 layers of dry brush and inking (pictures don't show too much the contrast).
All in all I am quite happy how they turned out and they are far from boring (but honestly, what a dull army, those 1815 Prussians!...)

Here is a very large size picture if you wish to have a look at the details.

All in all, if I must say, what works well at this scale (6mm) is using light colors for the figs (here the uniforms are a tad too dark), decent bases and flags - all the rest is detail that will vanish well before you reach gaming distance.

6mm craze: Napoleonics

So here is a trial that I am doing on base for 6mm Napoleonics. I will come back to the topic later on.

DBA, another thing..yet

As if I needed another ruleset... Well, needed or not, I discovered three weeks ago DBA. It was my first game and I enjoyed the -no thrill play it in 40 minutes- approach. The club that I have played this game at uses 20mm plastic.

I went to a shop that I was told about, browsed through the boxes and picked up a box of Vikings from Zevzda.

I was very impressed by the quality of the sculpt and the hard plastic that seems to be a trend launched by GW. All in all, I was very much favorably impressed by the quality of the 20mm plastic figures and it definitely changed my view inherited from the Altlantic/Airfix years. Huge improvements have been done since, hugh... last 20 years (?).

So I quickly put together a Viking army. I wasn't too comfortable painting them, hesitating between 15mm and 28mm painting techniques. Eventually, I leaned towards the 28mm "Dallimore" way with some shortcuts as I didn't want to spend ages on a first try.

If it were to be done again, I would paint the figures even lighter. Don't know why, but with time passing by, I tend to paint my figures in brighter and brighter colors.

Next project is to finish a 6mm French Napoleonic army, then move back to a 2nd Crusade DBA army.

6mm Soviet Submachinegun infantry

These are SMG squads. With a burning wreck in the foreground.

An attempt to make "forrest" like bases for the remaining squad of Soviet submachinegun infantry. Actually, the bases are better than the pictures.

In total, I have completed:

• 5 command bases
• 4 Heavy machinegun bases
• 4 Pioneer bases
• 8 Submachine gun bases
• 14 Rifle bases
• 9 half squad bases

around 150 figures. Obviously, what took the most time was making the bases.

Urban Soviet SMG infantry -6mm

Here is my remaining Soviet Infantry. I went for 3 Submachine squads, 1 x half squad and 1 x command group. The half squad is defending a trench, while a SMG squad is moving out of sewers.

In the background, the other urban bases that I have made.