Weekly backlog posting for week 13, and here are some more French Generals. I didn't really need extra generals, but when Perry released these I thought it would add more character to refight games to have the proper figures respresenting distinctive generals like Lasalle, plus Lannes, and the others are nice to have as well.
In the front row left to right we have Generals Franceschi-Dalone, Lasalle, Pully and Pajol.
In the rear row we have with Fournier-Farloveze with a Mameluke musician (this figure from Gringo's 40) and Marshal Lannes with an ADC.
Quite a varied range of clothing adornes these generals, in true French fashion!
These figures also involve the challenge of trying to approximate the markings of the various large cats that comprise much of the horse furniture!
Hopefully we will see some more characters being released - especially Davout!
Week 9 of backlog and a smaller post this time, a couple of French 12 pounders. These were made using some spare metal 12 pounders from Perry French Limbers, and spare plastic crew from Victrix kits. Helpful to have a couple more French heavy artillery from these spare bits!
Another Friday and week 3 of the backlog posting! Next up is two units of French Hussars, the 7th and 11th regiments. Perry kits once more. Hussars are typically the most challenging of Napoleonic units to paint due to all the lace, but the uniforms are impressive. The first units I posted to this blog were the 5th and 9th Hussars back in 2013, so it's taken some time to get around to adding more French Hussars. I also seem to have a thing for the odd numbered regiments!
11th Hussars with an attractive dark blue uniform with white trim on the pelisse, and red plumes.
And the 7th Hussars, with their green dolman and pelisse and red trousers, and red over white plume.
Thanks for looking and more Napoleonics next Friday :)
And in the meantime if you want to see even more Hussars, there are also my six Austrian regiments!
Friday backlog post number two, is another 144 French Line Infantry. These are four boxes of the Perry's new(ish) 1807-14 French Infantry. I much prefer these to their 1815 set, as they are all in dress uniform rather than having a smattering of dreary looking greatcoats! Also I think the quality is better, for example more options with the officers.
This is a great set. I also painted up the skirmishers in these sets as Tirailleurs previously, as I already had enough skirmishers for my needs.
These are done with one company per base, with Grenadiers in bearskins, and Voltigeurs long plumed shakos.
With four boxes that is enough to detach flank companies and make a unit each of combined Voltigeurs and Grenadiers. This is my usual approach now of doing these in four units of 36, which can become six units of 24 for games where this is the standard size.
Tempted to get another four boxes for Neapolitans! We will see... Thanks all, and more from the backlog will be posted next Friday.
Long on my to do list, I finally completed a couple of these very nice Perry supply wagons. In addition to being nice scenery pieces, they are very useful for objectives in scenarios, such as many in Michael Hopper's scenario books. And of course some rulesets also have rules for them, e.g. as markers of reformation areas.
And a You Tube video of them also.
The canopies and the main body of the wagon are now cast in resin, with the axles, wheels and yoke, horses and crew in metal. Each has a Driver and Cantinière as crew.
I wasn't sure what colour to do the horse furniture, as my other French Napoleonic wagons have much of it in white, but the wagons are shown with black on the Perry site so that is what I went with. I imagine such details varied a great deal in any case over the course of time. A detail I really like on these is that the metal traces on the yolk actually match up with the harness on the horses, rather than having to make this rope detail yourself.
Here's a series of pics from different angles.
The canopies are optional, and sit in place nicely without gluing so I have left them removable. The wagons are otherwise filled with a range of chests and tarpaulins. and a greatcoat slung over the rear chest. So they were not identical looking, I instead did some extra tarpaulins on the bottom one in pic below, out of green stuff. Not the finest work in existence but passable. These together with the canopies I painted in a yellowed linen colour.
One other detail with these kits, is that they came with an extra piece (circled), that is just a duplicate of the bit now included in the resin sculpt on the underside of the wagon. Previously when the wagon was metal rather than resin you had to glue it on. So you don't actually need this piece which caused me some confusion until people on the The Napoleonic Wargamer Facebook group pointed this out, thanks again!
