Russian Dragoons - Perry 28mm

Week 19 of backlog, and here we have four units of Russian Dragoons from the Perry plastic set. You need a lot of cavalry for Russian forces so I've added a bulk lot here, in addition to the previous two Mounted Jager regiments.

 

I chose to do these without banners, but might add them at a later stage by expanding the unit sizes.

Russian cavalry have some more unusual facing colours compared to France, which tended to go with reds/yellows/oranges/pinks which are complementary colours to the green, so creating the most contrast and visual effect. Russia seems to have just mechanically worked though the rainbow instead, which I was keen to represent. Thus here we have turqoise (greenish blue) for the Kurland Regiment. And another regiment above has a medium blue for the Tver Regiment.

Additionally I went with some more common facing colours that offer a stronger contrast with the green, like this pink for the St Petersburg and Moscow regiments, and the yellow above for the Smolensk and Kinburn regiments.

Monesterio Refight - 4th January 1811

Here's a short video of my friend Paul using his newly painted Spanish, aggresively trying to intercept a French Supply Train! This is a small scenario from Michael Hopper's 'Rise of Albion' book on the Peninsula War.

Eastern European Buildings

Week 18 of backlog. For games set in Eastern Europe  (East Prussia, Poland, Russia) I wanted some simple buildings of wooden construction to match the typical villages found there during Napoleonic times. I collected this selection from Renedra and Pegasus as a start on this.

Renedra church and barn, theoretically Amercian I think, but pretty generic. Simple modest structures that could be used in many settings. 

Possibly I may replace the steeple of the church with an Eastern Orthodox dome if I can find something suitable. E.g. see this conversion of this kit.

Small Renedra Outbuildings, in stone, wattle, daub and timber.

Pegasus Hobbies, Russian farm houses. (172nd Scale but close enough )

Pegasus Hobbies, Russian log houses (also 1/72nd scale).

Western European Buildings

Week 17 of backlog. This is a selection of resin buildings that I picked up and painted (well 3 of them), mostly in an estate sale of a local wargaming buddy who sadly died over a year ago now.  

These buildings will supplement my existing Tabletop Workshop (now Warlord), range of plastic buildings. 

I'm not sure of the providence of these two thatched buildings, if someone let's me know I will add the details! (EDIT - thanks for comment from Mark Strachan below, he made the one on the right for Military Miniatures Range approx 1990, now out of production).

I believe this building is from Steve Barber Models German Renaissance range. An impressive structure that takes some patience in painting with all the panels! 

Lastly some of this range that was popular in the 2000's but now out of production. They came pre-painted and were a good price. Made from some sort of hard, but relatively brittle resin.

Southern European (Mediterranean) Buildings

Week 16 of backlog. With some Peninsula games planned, I thought I should get a few buildings that are more atmospheric for that theatre, and will also useful for Italy. These are 3D printed buildings I purchased from Tabletop Battlefield Terrain in 3D in Australia, the owner Dave Knowles being very helpful in the process. He also ships to US if anyone from there interested.

A Spanish style chapel. The roof is removable.

The regular buildings come in three parts, a bottom section, middle section and roof, but of course you can combine to make single or three or four story buildings. You could also do more work than I bothered with on the interiors, if you wanted, so as to use them for skirmish gaming. There are  seven different designs of buildings, in terms of the layout of windows and doors and detail, so I would ask for some variation as I did if purchasing.

Happy with these and will help games in these theatres feel more thematic :)

Russian Mounted Jager - Perry 28mm

Week 15 of Backlog. Two units of Russian Mounted Jagers from Perry. Eight regiments of these were converted from Dragoons in December 1812 to provide more light cavalry.

Here is the Dorpat regiment with crimson/pink facings. For this I used Vallejo Game Colour Warlord Purple.

And with the orange facings, this is Sieversk Regiment. For the orange I used Vallejo Game Colour Dwarf Skin, which seemed a good match for the slightly pinky orange colour shown in the Perry guide.

A great kit from Perry, that lets you make Russian Dragoons or Mounted Jager, or Prussian Dragoons, and with kitbashes from other kits a whole range of other units. Plus you get enough bodies to make an entire extra unit if you purchase some extra horses from Perry.

Russian Horse Limbers - Commissar 28mm

Week 14 of backlog, here are two Russian Horse Artillery Limbers, from Commissar Miniatures. I painted these up for our Leipzig refight last year, as Russian players didn't have limbers and I like at least horse artillery to have these!

There are a lack of companies making these unfortunately, though I guess you could do head swaps on Perry or something. See my previous post on Commissar Miniatures for more details of these ones, though given the tragic Ukrainian war these are sadly unlikely to be viable option at the present time.

These are the first of my Napoleonic Russians to be painted, though many more are planned...