Plan for the year

Uncertain as the times are, it is always best to at least make an effort to have a bit of structure to what you would like to do for the next few months.  Up to easter the main project will be the Austrian fleet for the battle of Lissa (1866).  This is my part of a joint project with Steve, who will be painting up the Italian fleet.  The ships are produced by Spithead Models and come in four batches, the first at the end of last year and the remainder at monthly intervals this year, starting this month.  They are 1:1200 scale

Here are the first squadron of gunboats, four more are nearing completion

Hum, with her sisters Vellabich and Dalmat

Steve has assembled the Italians' frigate squadron, here are two of them

The next batch are Austrian Avisos and Italian ironclads, plenty to look forward to.  

In between the ship painting and rigging I hope to plod on with the Eastern Renaissance collections, Ottomans, Poles and Cossacks in particular, though at some stage I would like to fit in a couple of units of reiter for the Muscovites.