28mm Napoleonic Chasseur a Pied, General Foy & Bavarian Chevaux-legers.

Time constraints and PC woes got in the way of my blogging again but here are a few projects I have completed over the last few weeks:
28mm Napoleonic Chasseurs a Pied French Imperial Guard:

18 figures make up this 1st battalion of the 1st Regiment Chasseur a pied of Napoleon Bonaparte's Imperial Guard.

Chasseurs a pied

Perry miniatures provide a nice variety of poses

flag by GMB shaped after pasting with pva glue

The Commanding Officer 1st battalion of the 1st Regiment.

Sapper armed with two pistols and an axe.

The French Imperial Guard Chasseurs a pied is probably my favourite french infantry regiment, though I'm not sure why?

General Foy's command base; A simple 60mm diameter mdf 2mm thick base with a Perry miniatures General Foy and two infantry officers having a heated discussion.

 Bavarian Chevau-Legeres:
The first faltering steps of my Bavarian contingent will be provided by the 3rd Regiment Kronprinz, I have to order the command stand and remaing troopers soon.

These troopers have a really nice shabraque design of light blue diamonds on white strip. By 1814 I think all the Dragoons were converted to these Chevau legere uniforms.

Anyhow tomorrow I'll put up my Greek Trireme for the Peloponnesian war campaign I'm fighting at the moment. It is a 1/300th Langton model so there is  a significant amount of construction involved.

Any hoo, all the Best
Peter.

28mm Napoleonic French Cavalry 1814-1815

A nostalgic twinge over the last couple of weeks saw me going back to one of the classic wargaming periods: The Napoleonic Wars, so I thought I'd take advantage of the very best Napoleonic figure ranges available, namely 'Perry Miniatures'. I have a habit of selling off all of a collection from time to time and always regret it, even though I could expect to restock there are always a plethora of military wargaming periods which seem to get in the way.  So at last I bought some French Imperial Guard Empress Dragoons and some British 1st Regiment King's Dragoon Guards to start with.

The French Cavalry - Imperial Guard Empress Dragoons.

Of course restocking my depleted Napoleonics I'd have to start with the French so onwards with some Imperial Guard Empress Dragoons:

Each regiment of cavalry will be made up of 9 riders with horses, perry sell cavalry in boxes of three so there is some logic used here.

pack FN143 Empress Dragoon Troopers (2 packs of these)

pack FN142 Empress Dragoon Command (1 pack of these)

the riders were mounted on corks and painted separately from the horses, it makes it much less fiddly to do it this way.

A black enamel undercoat was applied all over each figure.

The first colours were blocked in.

I must admit I finished 3 troopers first to see how the colour scheme panned out.

This particular regiment had mostly chestnut coloured horses with a few bays thrown in and of course the trumpeters horse was the usual grey colour.

The Chestnut horses were painted in tan enamel paint washed over in burnt sienna oil paint - you must use artists quality paint for the oils! to get the best effect. The burnt sienna oil was mixed with tan and yellow colours for the highlights.

Basing achieved using 2mm plasticard 25mm x 50mm for each single figures 50mm x 50mm for doubles and 75mm x 50mm for threes. Basing effects created using polyfilla stones (ballast) tea leaves and grass tufts (available through this blog) and the odd bush etc.

Finally 'Testors Dullcote' matt varnished sealed the whole job.

I'm going to experiment with a number of Napoleonic rule sets, 'March Attack' by Crusader publishing will be the first rules I will have tried for some time.

Next in the pipeline will be a Regiment of British Dragoon Guards.

Cheers for now,
Peter.