Anyway, I've had 2 weekends in a row with reenactments that soaked up a lot of my time(this last weekend being teh Seige of Old Fort Erie, and all-weekend affair). and in between them i did a rush job on a trio of 40K Baneblades for a friend. I also got another squadron of Metzger Cuirassier mostly done along with a few more curiassier command for my imagination army.
Also I finished the french brigade. Actually I finished painting it about 2 weeks ago, I just hadn't grassed the arty and 2 infantry units until this morning.
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| Full Perry French Brigade |
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| Close up on Artillery battery and Brigade commander |
These are a commission for a friend. i was paid for this(and another unit each of line and skirmish, 24 figures, to come) with 2 Warlord Russian starter armies. unfortunately I'm going to have to wait until i can get command to start painting my Russians. i was rather horrified to find out i had 192 Russian musketeers with no command! In the past with other plastic sets, the command were also in plastic(like the ECW battalion starter army) so i just assumed there would be. i mean, who would want 96 musketeers with NO command? so I'll have to make a order direct to Perry Bros. for 18(!) command sprues. on the plus side, it does mean once i acquire the perry command, i wil only have to add my artillery and jagers to finish off the corps.
Speaking of Russians, I did start painting a few and re-testing colours for Russian green. to do this i painted a perry Russian high command set. One of the first things i thought of when i heard the Perry's were doing russians was that i would finally get a good command vignette. and to not dissappoint, the perry's scuplted a scene from the battle of Borodino, which appears on hte back cover of the F.-G. Hourtoulle book about the same battle.
the characters pictured are as follows from the left: General Wilson(Britsh Observer) General Yermolov, General Barclay de Tolly, General Osterman-Tolstoy, General Kutuzov, General Ouverov, General Kutaissov, and Colonel Toll.
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| Perry command vignette picturing a scene from Borodino |
hte next army command stand I'd like to get would be Foundry's Napoleon & staff(at Borodino). it has Napoleon looking decidedly unhappy, with arms cross and feet up on a drum.
over teh next few weeks I'm probably going to be working mostly on imagination stuff, with perhaps a little tangent on some peninsular war British.
Really nice Stephen
ReplyDelete"The Russian Napoleonic Army Deal contains:
ReplyDelete5 Early or Late War Russian Infantry Boxes
2 Pavlovsk Grenadiers boxes
1 Command set
1 Casualties pack
Total Cost if bought individually £146. Our Deal Price £130."
As each infantry box contains some two metal standard bearers, a drummer and an officer haven't you been short changed? While I quite like the stolid look of the Warlord Russian rank & file I was less than impressed by the metal castings straight out of the box - the Perry plastic Russian command are simply in a different league.
Beautiful paint jobs on the French Perry infantry.
Little Armies,
ReplyDeleteI agree about the Warlord command. one of the standard bearers is particularly atrocious. seeing the command, in some ways I'm almost glad. I also have a more local store that has a pack of foundry Pavlov command, so i should be able to replace at least part of that.
also, on the Russian starter army box it lists:
96 Russian Musketeers
32 Pavlov Grenadiers with command
1 Mounted officer
so it is very specifically correct, however, in the past, as with the battalia starter army, which lists" 80 p&S infantry, 24 Cavalry, 12 Firelock musketeers" the command in the case of the cavalry and infantry was included.
Any additional infantry(specifically my 4 Jager regiments) are going to be perry. that's because i like my jagers in forage caps to differentiate them more readily.
That French Brigade is utterly gorgeous!
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