Old Guard

Also just finished the Vielle Grenadiers of the Guard.  This set is probably familiar to most, it is the Zvezda Old Guard set.  I will probably finish the Velite Italians Grenadiers next.

Italian Line

So I just finished these.  I used a standard bearer and drummer from Italeri French Line, but the rest are all HAT.  I used the French Guard Chasseurs fort the campaign dress grenadiers, Hat French Middle Guard for the voltigeurs, and the HAT 1812 line infantry fusiliers. 

Westphalian Fusilier Garde

I used the French Middle Gaurd from Hat for this one.

French Hussars

I repainted these hussars to look like the French 4th Hussars, from the Italeri Hussars set.

French Foot Carabiniers

Well to all you professionals out there, I finally learned how to wash with acrylics.  I am also re-painting a lot of my old sets.  I will get the posts up on them.  You can sure tell what a rookie I am at this.  I took the French Grenadiers set from Italeri and made this conversion.  I already had the Zvezda Old Gaurd set, and they seem to match the historical size when comparing that set to my Hat industrie figures.  This seemed like a logical choice.  I took that Italeri issue set for Waterloo and re-painted a lot of those too. 

I only used a light wash for these Carabiniers, but the other sets I used a heavier wash.  I hope you enjoy.  I have combined some sets from Hat and Italeri to make Swiss, Irish and Italian units.  Those are forth coming, but I am going to re-paint my Old Gaurd set next, and wash those.  Thanks to all the more professional painters out there for publishing your content so novices like me can learn. 

Westphalian 2nd

I tried to mimic the Westphalian 2nd in this unit.  I really like the 1808-1812 French Infantry, from hat industrie.  I will probably do the Westphalian Garde Fusiliers next.

Pictures from High Adventure (last year)

These are some pics, from a 24 exposure waterproof camera that I took on our high adventure to Zions last year. If I get the other pictures I'll post them.

These are from the checkerboard Mesa hike. We only hiked 2 miles up, and 2 down, but there was a 880 foot gain in elevation.

This is the boys and Brother Kirby. This is about the half way point. You can kind of grasp the sheer climb we had by the slot canyon walls to the side.

Here's Kirbs putting on his Napoleon "I've conquered all" pose.

The boys before the last ascent to the top, havin fun.

The Top finally! The object of the hike was to gain this plateau and be able to see the Great Arch of Zions. You can kinda see it in the distance.

The next day was the narrow's hike. The boys putting on their best poses. You'll see this them repeated.