Half Yearly Review

At the start of the year I wrote "...I have only two projects on the books: a small expansion of the Russian Napoleonic infantry (half a dozen battalions of grenadiers) and the completion of the Franco-Prussians." But it didn't take long for a new project, the Austrian Napoleonics, to pop up...that damned butterfly fluttering around again!

The first project for year saw the completion of five regiments of Prussian cavalry for the Franco-Prussian War carried forward from last year. Their completion marked the pause in that project until the Prussian heavy guns were available (which they are now and are marked for working in September) and the Prussian generals that are due at some point "soonish" according to Michael Perry.

The Russian Grenadiers and a regiment of Prussian landwehr cavalry followed before the Austrians began to appear.

Six big ACW guns and a bit of work on some fantasy ruins has preceded the current FPW French work.

The raw painting count breakdown is: 565 foot figures, 75 mounted figures, 7 guns, 2 pieces of equipment and 32 terrain pieces.

Adjusting that for effort (counting 5 points per foot figures, 10 points for each mounted figures, gun or equipment pieces and 10 points for each hour's work on scratch built piece of terrain work) the results by project are:

In terms of games played I have managed ten, which is surprising really since I had four weeks holiday in that time.

So what does the next six months hold in store?

First up is a unit of hussars to finish off the Austrian Napoleonic project. There will be some Ottoman Turks much later in the year too. The main effort will  be the Franco-Prussians which, with retirement not far around the corner, will probably be my last big project...unless someone decides to make a full Franco-Austrian War range, in which case I will need to put retirement off another year!