I managed a bit of painting tonight…not a huge amount but a little bit. I did all of the horse manes as well as all of the boots and breeches on the Hussars that needed doing.

Not that you can really see on the Hussars.

A lot of today was spent tidying up and sorting out for Christmas. I also added a glass shelf unit underneath the TV. This thing has to be screwed into the wall…

First of all, the lower part of the wall was damp, so we will have to repaper the wall and secondly I was having to drill into a stone wall, this was an absolute swine, it wouldn’t have been too bad if I had to drill a couple of holes, but no… six were required. A few times I had to put my full weight behind the drill to make any progress, but at least it is up now.

Hopefully tomorrow I might get the chance to do some more painting.

Tonight I am knackered, so haven’t done a huge amount, but I did a bit more colour testing.

I decided on yellow for the sash and turn-backs.

A fair bit of tidying up is required on the sash ends, I only realised there were white bits when I took the photo. The officer pelise needs another coat of black paint.

The other thing I did was a quick face colour. Eyes and noses need doing, but not tonight.

I am off out with my good lady tomorrow evening with our friends, my eldest is going to be a baby sitter, just hope she doesn’t expect paying!

The gloves are going to be a pale tan

As I expected I didn’t make it in until near enough 22.00. So after some tea, I only had a short while to paint anything at all.

I managed the shabraque on the horses.

As mentioned in an earlier post these will have gold braid on them as befits light cavalry.

I really like this light blue so I then went on a hunt for a picture of something I liked.

I eventually found something I wanted to do. In my stupidity I shut down the page and now can’t find it any more, but I did find something close…

Mine will have the grey breeches, long black boots, a red dolman with the bright blue pelise edged with the black fur. I will go for the black shako with either a red or blue top.

Hopefully I will get some more bits painted tomorrow.

Just can’t be bothered to do the teeny hounds, so decided on some more Flintloque miniatures. This time I am going for half a dozen Ostarian Hussars armed with lances.

Again these are some lovely miniatures that I have had for a good old while. I have a real liking for the dog miniatures, of which I have a few.

I will have to get some bigger bases in the long run, but at least these will give me something to hang onto whilst I paint things.

I will get them sprayed white tomorrow and take it from there.

Tonight my voice has totally gone, I mean gone to the point where no sounds are coming out, but to be fair it will stop my kids hearing my bad language as the election results start to come in.