Hopes Raised and Dashed - Venexia

My third entry to the Analogue Painting Challenge went up yesterday.  Some leftover figures from my Italian Wars project.  I found these, based and primed, lost down the back of my desk. Having already painted two units of these, a quick afternoon's painting later and they were done. Lovely figs, lots of detail and outstanding casting quality.  Even if I do say so myself, I think the yellow and blue livery looks great!  Readers may remember that Venexia decided to close down and sold their range to another company.

After they went up on Curt's blog, the frst comment suddenly grabbed my attention. Mr J directed me here on the assumption the range was now available.  Now I knew that Sgt Major Miniatures had taken the Venexia ranges, but I've not seen any sign on the figures on their site.  The last email I received from the owner didn't give any indication of when they would be available and I've not seen anything.

After going through every catagory on their site, I'm fairly certain that they're just not there.  So that sadly means no resumption of my Italian Wars project, for now anyway.

BTW, if I'm wrong, can someone please point it out to me!  I'd quite happily look like an idiot on the internet if it meant that this range of figures were available again!

Just A Quick Update

An early Christmas present is (hopefully) on it's way to me this week!  Tabletop Fix ran a competition recently for a Spartan Games prize, which I didn't win.  However, the actual winner never claimed their prize and I won the subsequent rerun!

So a Covenant of Antarctica fleet box and Dystopian Wars rulebook en route.  After this drubbing, maybe these guys will perform a bit better than my Prussians.

On the Italian Wars front, however, actual work has yet to start.  Seriously, what is it with the Royal Mail? There's one day of flooding and a couple days of icy weather up here, and our mail delivery is running five days late?  I've some miniatures on order from Vexillia Limited and Museum Miniatures, although when they arrive is anyone's guess.

I have been having a look through the various army lists and have decided to start off by building up early French and Milanese armies.  The deciding factor boiled down to the local book store only having Osprey's Fornovo Campaign book in stock.  This has been a fairly entertaining read, charting the first campaign of the Italian Wars, leading upto the Battle of Fornovo - a score draw between the French and Italian City States.  It's also given me some great modelling  ideas, including a command stand of Charles VIII taking a leak (where he was almost captured!)