A pat on the back seems quite sufficient
a reward for winning a wargames
figure painting competition – not
that a Légion d’honneur and a
pension to go with it would be
sniffed at. I was delighted
with my prize for coming
runner up in the Pendraken
Painting Competition Open
Army category (see the last
post). Straight away, I
ordered a few Pendraken
packs with the generous £10
discount I had been awarded, all
English Civil War models – but to
use as Napoleonic scenery not to start a
new project! I also won a 10mm village set
from Total Battle Miniatures – a village set of a resin
church with a choice of steeple roofs and four other
buildings together with a latex base with a perimeter of
walls and hedgerows. When I saw the other 10mm
buildings the company had on offer – all shrunken
footprint models but with the correct scale height – I was
so impressed I ordered five more buildings. I also hoped
my order would repay in some small way the generosity of
Pete and Mark at TBM in sponsoring and donating to the
competition. I planned to get to work on these new build-
ings as soon as possible as I thought they were so right for
my project that I had every intention they would replace
the models I had already painted to be my Essling village.
More than a Pat on the Back
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