I’ve been smitten with Osprey’s Absolute Emperor rule set, returning to where it all started for me; Napoleonics in the 1960’s
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Making the best of, yet another, wet day in May I thought I’d try to get some paint on some of my 6mm Austrians.
Anticipating a need to scratch this itch last week I visited eBay for 000 brushes (pity you can’t get 000000 ones), replacement scalpels and delPredo illustrated booklets.

With everything to hand on a wet Friday I selected an initial batch of 24 figures and proceeded to clean them up. I dug out my paints and found I couldn’t get some of the tops off, and some had dried out! However, after judicial use of various kitchen utensils and opening ‘spare’ paints I set about the task of applying a base coat of white, which happens to be the predominant uniform colour for ‘German’ infantry. Various colours followed and despite at times being unable to see where I was applying some of the finer detail, more in hope than skill I splashed the paint on. I even based them. I’m thinking not too bad after a drought of probably 2 years.

I awoke this morning and rushed to view my handywork, and really all that struck me was the black of the boots and headgear along with the white of the uniform! I think the next batch will have less love lavished on them.
Having taken a dainty nibble at my backlog, if I were to keep that productivity up, I’d be reducing my pile of acquisitions by 8,760 figures a year. At that rate I’d have caught up by the end of the decade, probably.

Footnote: although I managed 24 figures, they only represent 25% of a unit… Weather permitting, I may be able to bring a unit to the table in a week.

Cheers