Hoi,
Work on the diorama is slow, well fairly non existent at this moment. I still have a large amount of 60th Rifles primed and awaiting a paint-job on my desk, but somehow I cannot bring myself to start painting them. Perhaps having the diorama-tiles in here will help motivate me, but they are not due till somewhere halfway June.
I have been reading quite a lot on the Peninsular War lately and this keeps me tuned and not too much distracted with the other projects I've got going.
On my night stand are these two books:
Oman's "History of the Peninsular War Volume 5"
http://www.amazon.com/History-Peninsular-War-Valencia-Salamanca/dp/1853676349/ref=sr_1_4?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1305974358&sr=1-4
and
"Albuera, Wellington's 4th Peninsular Campaign" by Peter Edwards.
http://www.amazon.com/Albuera-Wellingtons-Fourth-Peninsular-Campaign/dp/1861269463/ref=sr_1_7?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1305974400&sr=1-7
The first one I hoped would reveal some more details concerning the Battle of Los Araphiles or Salamanca, which it does, but not particularly useful for the actual work on the table. Oman is a brilliant read however so I enjoy this book immensely anyway.
The latter isn't just about the battle of Albuera, which was fought by Beresford and not Nosey after all, but also tells about the first siege of Badajoz. Very interesting details are given of the discussion which started after some accusations were directed towards Beresford for the way in which he (mis-)handled both Albuera and the first stages of the siege, before Wellington took back overall control.
At this time I am suffering from a dilemma: HäT has announced they will be re-doing French pre-1812 and post 1812 infantry. This is good news in itself, specially if they decide to produce them in their recent MAC-format, but it means I will have to choose between using the present set of pre-1812 French of which I already own several and so can start painting mini's at this very moment, or wait till I get the new ones who will be undeniably in better sculpted style and details and thus fit better with the other stuff on the diorama.
So what to do, what to do?
When I have more thoughts or opinions on this issue, the Peninsular War or Salamanca to share, I'll post them here but for now this is all folks...
Cheers Sander
