As promised

 So regular programing has returned. Two WIPs the first one is Dutch foot guards(blue gards) I'm not happy with them, I'm so out of practice, felt they were sloppy done.

The dutch guards should have some lace on their soldiers, but close enough.
I did them in the apropriate red and blue, even tho I was tempted to do them in the William of Orange, yellowish and blue. But by 1704 they almost definatly used the red and blue, abit anoying. while dark blue and red is very cool mix. I wanted to keep the blue dark, so I only used the french foundry triad, I normaly add a even lighter highlight. But wanted them dark so only the triad.

I also wanted the red to be clear and rich, so I did not shade or high light it, only one color of rich red.

This was to make the red and blue contrast as much as possible.

The second WIP that I actualy painted like a month ago now. Is a bravarian unit, I did the first base long ago, and started on the command base, but got so bored, not sure why I've spent like weeks trying to finish it, got so bored I finished the whole of the prince george unit, then didn't paint, left for my girlfriend, and did the first base of the dutch guards. Now I have to finish that command base.

538 28mm figures

Now I've only painted 330 of them have been painted by me. 208 were ready painted by Reinforcments by post, I still got atleast 194 unpained,

The 330 have been painted since June, so about 5 months.
538 would have been a huge division at 1:20 if it was all once force at over 10 000 soldiers, infact it would be to big, I have found that my max is 400 figures pr. side in 28mm, and even that will be a full table. Had I stuck to one force I would have finished it, and still be over 100 figures into the other side, close to having a gameble force.
Instead I jump, first it was easy british and french with most of the figures bought ready, then that plan went to hell, so now I'm basicly doing all 5 major powers, Austrian, British, French, Prussian and Russian and minor powers like Poland, Bravaria and Portugal. As explaned in the pervious post I will make a rag tag division of Russian, Prussian and Austrian.
But the overwhelming figures here are Allied, so I need to get my but in order and paint some of those french.

Anyway here they are, 538 28mm figures on about 3x2 feet of space.

Also I see nobody have tried to guess at what my secret project is.