Merry Christmas
and
A Happy New Year
from all the team at
The Hinton Spieler
Be sure to have a good one!
WM 😊
Showing posts with label Merry Christmas!. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Merry Christmas!. Show all posts
Monday, 23 December 2019
Sunday, 16 December 2018
Christmas Crackers
My Chasseurs are complete.
The figures are:
Vintage Hinton Hunt:
FN 48: French Imperial Guard Cavalry, Chasseur a Cheval charging x 9;
Der Kriegspielers Napoleoniques:
Set # 47: Guard Chasseurs a Cheval x 1;
Set # 47: Guard Chasseurs a Cheval x 1, converted into a trumpeter; and
Wishing you all a very Merry Christmas and the very best for the New Year.
WM
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| The Emperor has despatched his finest regiment to reconnoitre the road to Berlin. |
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| The Chasseurs deploy onto the far bank unopposed. |
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| But at that very moment, the enemy appears. It is the dreaded Leib Hussars. |
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| Without a moment's hesitation, Prince Eugene wheels his squadrons to face the foe. |
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| The Leib Hussars also prepare to attack. |
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Essex Hussar: Chasseurs, the eyes of the Emperor are upon us.
Pamela, Sound the charge!
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In the blink of an eye, the charging squadrons are upon each other,
sabres flashing in the clear morning light...
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| ...and in an instant the Leib Hussars are overthrown. |
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| Napoleon: That's more like it! |
The figures are:
Vintage Hinton Hunt:
FN 48: French Imperial Guard Cavalry, Chasseur a Cheval charging x 9;
Der Kriegspielers Napoleoniques:
Set # 47: Guard Chasseurs a Cheval x 1;
Set # 47: Guard Chasseurs a Cheval x 1, converted into a trumpeter; and
The Essex Hussar.
Special thanks to Don W and MS Foy, without whom I could never have assembled this regiment. Please accept my apologies, chaps, for the ridiculous amount of time its taken me to complete them.
Special thanks to Don W and MS Foy, without whom I could never have assembled this regiment. Please accept my apologies, chaps, for the ridiculous amount of time its taken me to complete them.
Wishing you all a very Merry Christmas and the very best for the New Year.
WM
Monday, 25 December 2017
Merry Christmas
No French infantry for Christmas, but we don't care because Wellington Girl did this:
Merry Christmas!
WM
Sunday, 18 December 2016
Hintonstein's Monster
Er....there's been a slight delay to the Empress Dragoons due to the wrong kind of figures on the production line. Painting will resume with the arrival of yet more Hinton Hunt replacements. These are even now winging their way across the globe, courtesy of the Archduke!
This should have been the perfect opportunity to crack on with my final French battery, but what I ended up doing instead was obsessing about something else entirely. This was: what to you do when you're one figure short of a regiment of Chasseurs and all you've got is a ropy old Lamming French hussar officer, a spare Hinton Hunt horse and box full of unwanted Scruby, Hinchliffe and Minifigs bits and bobs?
Mrs WM, on the other hand, refers to him as the "Essex Hussar", but then she's like that.
It was the horse, of course, which was the really nerve-wracking bit as I had to detach him from his base and reposition one of the hind legs in order to get him to rear up properly, as well as more or less completely reconstruct his left foreleg. I had to resort to a bit of Scruby assistance for the last part.
The hat is a Hinchliffe creation with the original Lamming French officer's plume grafted onto it.
He's not quite the Théodore Géricault masterpiece I had in my mind's eye, but he'll definitely fill the gap.
As this is likely to be the last Hintonspieler post for 2016, it only remains for me to say Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.
WM
This should have been the perfect opportunity to crack on with my final French battery, but what I ended up doing instead was obsessing about something else entirely. This was: what to you do when you're one figure short of a regiment of Chasseurs and all you've got is a ropy old Lamming French hussar officer, a spare Hinton Hunt horse and box full of unwanted Scruby, Hinchliffe and Minifigs bits and bobs?
And the answer, two very nervous weeks later, was:
an officer of the Chasseurs à Cheval de la Garde Impériale.
Mrs WM, on the other hand, refers to him as the "Essex Hussar", but then she's like that.
The hat is a Hinchliffe creation with the original Lamming French officer's plume grafted onto it.
He's not quite the Théodore Géricault masterpiece I had in my mind's eye, but he'll definitely fill the gap.
As this is likely to be the last Hintonspieler post for 2016, it only remains for me to say Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.
WM
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| With sincere apologies to Géricault . Note to self: don't try to get a job as a Photoshop artist. |
Tuesday, 22 December 2015
Merry Christmas!
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| Wellington Girl demonstrates the proper way to create a regiment |
What a weird and wonderful year it's been. It's now exactly twelve months since I started this project, and I'm amazed I've managed to stay the course. It's been a bit of a shock to the family too. I don't think anyone expected Dad's occasional whimsical murmurings about playing with toy soldiers again to go quite this far.
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| The 17th Santas prepare to advance. I don't fancy their chances somehow. |
Merry Christmas and all the very best for the New Year to all those who have enjoyed this blog, and a special thanks to those who provided me with so many words of encouragement, and much else besides. There will be many more good things to come, I promise, in 2016!
WM
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| There just might be some Hinton Hunts in amongst that lot! |
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