On The Workbench 3.
Lots of Basing: Prussian Frei-Corp. Prussian artillery, 2 battalion guns and crew, 2 field guns and crew. Austrian Pandours. Austrian Uhlan. Fictitious but absolutely 'drop dead page 3', eat your heart out figures. The horses have been painted like no other 30mm EVER! Spanish 1770's infantry, new masters ready for a mould, still awaiting information for a few unique spanish uniforms before they 'wing off' to the caster. YES, still more New Spain buildings(unpainted) keep arriving. I hope your workbench is not as Full! John

On a big 15mm 7YW push at the minute til I get bored and move onto something else.

My workbench is much more cluttered now I'm not focused on one particular period. I have 4-5 different units on the go at once, and flit between them: Carlist war - Brit infantry, Spanish in greatcoats and a Madrid militia regiment; ECW - artillery, Prince Rupert's foot regiment and 2 command stands. I've just finished a pack of ECW prisoners/stragglers that was fun to do (lots of mud and blood splatters on the clothing) and I'm taking a deep breath before launching myself at a trumpeter and his grey horse.

LOTR Rohirim. OK, I'm weak, but the new game's not bad, lots of people are playing it around here so there's lots of opponents to play against, and the LOTR figs are killer plastics.

Three Perry mounted Emirs to complete my modest collection of Mahdists. These are making slow progress whilst life takes over atm. My painting is entering a new phase called 'very relaxed' as I've got a lot of what I want done so I'm only doing very small batches these days. I must drive the Perry's mad by buying a box at a time but they have flat rate postage so it suits me to do so. I enjoy the hobby far more like this than when I was painting hell-for-leather. I've ordered the steel bases for the Mahdists and will complete them over the next month or so and am thinking I might return to doing a few aircraft before I continue with the Perry British that are about half done but tucked away out of sight incase I feel overwhelmed.

I`ve got the foot elements of my Groupe Saharienne Portee unit to finish. Then some late WW2 Yanks in greatcoats, which i`ll build into a reinforced company.

My workbench is empty, but then again I don't yet have one set up in the new house I could throw a board over a few boxes of books, but I don't think swmbo would be impressed I did find my paints yesterday :)

Loads of Celts, I keep painting them but the pile does not dimminish and I have already got 18 stands that need basing. Also some French WW2 tanks.

Just spent the last 75 minutes basing the mentioned 80 figures. Just need to paint the bases when the sand/glue/filler is dry, then that is another job done. The Peter Gilder style basing is a great method. With book in hand, off into the garden. John

Just this morning I put the finishing touches on two Belgian Askari for my DA project. A shower and a shave later I decided that the blue on their uniforms was way too light (examples seen in museums show a very dark blue almost black). It is not so much a matter of accuracy; it just looks wrong. I can't explain it. So before I left I painted over all the blue bits with Dark Prussian blue again. I will highlight very light with that mixed with a bit of white or a lighter blue when I get home and leave it at that. Most annoying but I'd rather get it right now than paint the 30 or so askari that I plan to in a way that I do not like. Next up are 4 more askari in a shooting pose again from Foundry :-)

Crusaders,early western desert(WW2) and an Italian bomber ;)

I'm basing as well this week - a 10 foot scratch built city wall with four towers, a powder magazine and gates. Next up - basing those Mutineers and making some more movement trays.

A unit of Foundry Archduke Charles Legion, about half-done now. Lovely figures, I've been wanting to paint them for a while now.

I've lots of stuff on the painting table. I'm not sure if that qualifies as the "workbench" though. Recently, I have tried to exercise some discipline and do the terraining of the bases as soon as I complete the painting of the unit. So this reduces the accumulation of basing back log for me. I have some 1806 Prussian dragoons and French and Prussian command stands to base for our first playtest of rules for our 1:10 ratio 28mm Napoleonics. Unit sizes are 60 to 72 figures each.