Here’s some Napoleonics that I’ve been painting and converting.
These are converted French Horse Grenadiers - Grenadiers A Cheval de La Garde Imperial, some musicians, painted up Lucky Toys, and a couple of Line Horse Artillery guns.
I also did the Empress Dragoons.
Finally a lone Cuirassier. I guess I’ll get ‘round to doing the unit, but I ran out of steam.
I also did some English units, these being Waterloo Hanoverian. There’s a company that put out these guys in 28mm plastics, and I just seized upon the look of them to paint some 1/72 Prussians up.
I also did some artillery. Basically they look just like the English artillery, but I painted the artillery drivers in red like the earlier Waggoner corps. Just a whim on my part.
And finally I painted up French Foot Artillerymen as Russians and Gave them a couple of limbers.
Twice a year is better than none🙂
ReplyDeleteThose Grenadiers a cheval have some impressive bearskins!
Are those 'Giant'/Christmas-cracker guns? They paint-up well don't they! Lovely!
ReplyDeleteH
Hi Hugh. Yes that’s them alright.
DeleteGood to see some colourful conversions including the Hanoverians - nice to see some familiar Airfix gunners in there. Mark Man of TIN
ReplyDeleteI think the converting part is the most fun, especially with the increasing brittleness of some figures as they get older.
DeleteHello Ross. Those bearskins are dowel rod. I did something similar with my Chasseurs a Cheval last year. I didn’t like the look of the plastic headgear, to me it was too small. The only other way I could beef them up was with black flocking, and I tried it, but it’s too messy. So I got out the razor saw and made new hats.
ReplyDelete