Seven Years War progress

With a busy weekend ahead, thought I'd get my weekly post up this morning.

Working on a Seven Years War collection I purchased already painted - but with issues on the base texturing, a mix of fine sand/ballast and some sort of odd green stuff that is 'shedding' like rain from the bases.  So I am removing as much of the old stuff as possible and will replace with some Woodland Scenics blended turf using acrylic paint as the adhesive to improve the overall look.  And once dry, giving it a good coat of a matte sealer.

Above is what some of the Austrian light troops look like prior to cleaning.

And after cleaning.

Here is the full unit.

One of the two units of Austrian grenadiers, the "blues" - before cleaning.

And ditto for the "reds".

And here is what the "blues" look like all cleaned off.

With a good dose of luck, I hope to have the full collection ready for gaming by early February to host a memorial game, in honor of the friend who owned this collection, on the date of his passing - or as close as will work.

Besides re-texturing the basing, need to do some work on the artillery pieces and the horses (may or may not get that part done by time of game but hopeful) and paint up generals (none in the collection) and some jaegers for the Prussians, neither of the last two included in what I purchased from the estate.  All the generals and jaegers ready for priming, today if weather permits.  Just Austrians and Prussians in the collection.  Also purchased a bunch of his 6 mm buildings that I will use with these figures, 10 mm in size.