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I'm Dave and live in Morpeth, Northumberland in the UK.
This may or may not be a regular thing, we'll just have to see how it goes.
I am a painter/collector of figures first and a wargamer second. My thrill in this great hobby of ours is to place that final well researched & painted unit into the cabinet. The actual gaming with the figures is an important but secondary experience, we all like to win, but it isn't the be all and end all of it, being with good friends and having fun is.
Hope you will enjoy reading this blog as much as I will writing in it.
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Dave.

Wednesday, 1 January 2014

New Year and Dutch Belgians

First off Happy New Year to all who visit this site (and anyone else for that matter). Each to their own but I'm not going to go over what in wargame or painting terms I've achieved over the last year. I don't paint or game to any schedule or pattern, life's too short and frankly though I really enjoy my hobby there are much more important things going on to plan which lead soldiers and in which order I'm going to paint them.
That said this does purport to be a blog about painting model soldiers and as I've just finnished painting some then here they are.

These guys are a 15mm Dutch Belgians from the 1815 Waterloo campaign. There are incidentally no actual Dutch Belgian figures in this lot (why buy stuff when I have spare figures which will do very well), there are French hussars, Austrian Grenzers Russian artillery and lots of British infantry all painted as Dutch Belgians.

The infantry brigade:




Light cavalry Brigade:



The artillery battery:



Carry on gaming chaps.
Dave.

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8 comments:

  1. Neil Scott1 January 2014 at 19:33

    Some great looking units. Like you say why buy more figures if you already have useable ones to hand. All the best for 2014

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  2. Dave Huntley (sheepman)1 January 2014 at 20:00

    Cheers Scotty, I'll be in touch when this takeover business at work is done and dusted, a bit preoccupied with it at the moment.
    Dave.

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  3. DeanM1 January 2014 at 20:11

    Great looking Belgians!

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  4. Phil2 January 2014 at 07:47

    Very nice looking army!

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  5. 3rd95th2 January 2014 at 15:11

    You've been busy then!

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  6. NUFCwilson15 January 2014 at 22:10

    Very nice indeed.

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  7. Simmy12 January 2014 at 13:27

    Excellent collection!
    Also I like the Dutch-Belgians.
    In fact I'm collecting the 28mm Anglo-Dutch army of battle of Quatre Bras (scale 1: 100).
    Congratulations and best regards
    Simmy

    Eccellente collezione!
    Anche a me piacciono i olandesi-belgi.
    Infatti sto collezionando l'esercito anglo olandese di Quatre Bras in 28mm (scala 1: 100).
    Complimenti e i migliori saluti
    Simmy

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  8. Dave Huntley (sheepman)12 January 2014 at 21:51

    Many thanks for your interest Simmy. As I've said a couple of times in the past collecting a, less than popular army can be very interesting and a change from the more run of the mill armies of the Napoleonic wars. The Dutch Belgian army actually performed quite well at Quatre Bras and should not be underestimated.
    Dave

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