Dipping my toes into Napoleonics

To be honest, I’m in a bit of a hobby rut at the moment. I’m not pleased with anything that I’ve tried to paint recently and I feel that I’ve only gotten worse at it over the last years. The paper hobby has been a lovely way for me to engage with the hobby in a positive way: it is really cool to see how quick you can build something!

Having finished the armies themselves, I felt that I could not be motivated to build any of the paper terrain that I had also bought. Turned out that I’m capable of surprising myself as I’ve done exactly that.

I haven’t taken pictures of all the steps, but I can tell you that it came with its own challenges. The trees were like the paper soldiers I’ve been making until now, the only difference being that they did not need attaching to a base, but are slotted together.The buildings on the other hand needed some folding and gluing on a tiny scale, leading to some curses and me finding myself stuck to the couch.

Note that the bridge has no river yet to accompany it, but I have cut out the roads. The simplest way to make them would have been to just cut them out and be done with it. I expect, however, that the separate segments would then start moving around when moving troops along it. I therefore decided to add some heft by gluing the roads to cardboard and cutting that out with about half a centimeter margin on each side, which I then flocked.

Below is a photo of almost all of it togerther. I notice that I forgot to include the redan in this picture. You can see it in the above photo of the roads being made, however.