Alex's even longer post thread.

[Alex]

Shame you don't do 5mm. I could have sent you a couple of sprues of French troops Warlord included as freebies for me.

I did see that Wargames Illustrated is including a 15mm tank next month, but I guess that isn't much use to you either.

I deliberately avoid Napoleonics simply because I get very bored painting the same uniform over and over. Doing it for my WW2 armies has been a real pain, and I know how a lot of the Napoleonic guys get when you don't paint everything 100% accurately. Hell, when I in two weeks painted an entire German army for an exhibition match in early war grey, I had one guy complaining that it wasn't accurate for a force resisting the D-Day landings because they weren't using those uniforms at that point in the war. Yeah, I've seen stocks of uniforms 20 years out of date still being kept in case of shortages and that was in peacetime, never mind when you are on the losing end of a war with a shortage of resources.

[Dr. Whom]

Yeah, I know the type. The kind of chap who will pick up a stand, look at it closely, put it back and say something like 'wrong kind of mud for Italy'
As for Napoleonics, there are those who painstakingly reconstruct the various regulations, and then you see contemporary sketches or pamphlets, and you realise that the soldier's kit depicted consists of the last three regulations jumbled together.
I tend to have both Horse and Musket and other stuff in production at the same time, so that depending on my mood I can go for uniforms or do more flamboyant things like landsknechts. Keeps me from going mad.