28mm Napoleonic French: Maréchal d'empire

 

Here is the C-in-C of my French Napoleonic army, although which marshal has yet to be decided.

28mm Napoleonic French: 19th Legere, 1st and 2nd battalions.

 

I have painted these in 'almost' full dress. I say 'almost' because although they have their plumes, and some have their epaulettes as well, none of them have their laced boots. That's because the Perry plastic sculpts don't have them. Colourful chaps though.

40mm SYW: Lieutenant-General Friedrich Wilhelm Baron von Seydlitz

Here is a two-figure command group for the cavalry of my Prussian army. The Seydlitz figure is a cuirassier officer (in resin) from Day of Battle Games and the hussar is a metal Fleischhacker from Sash and Saber, both in the USA. Postal rates to Europe from that country have gone up enormously so I'm having to limit future orders.

 

15mm PunicRomans: Cromarty Forge Hastati

Here are some beautiful printed figures from Cromarty Forge, the first printed figures I have ever painted. They are available from The Plastic Soldier company in the UK and Excellent Minis in Europe- I bought from the latter. Actually the best place to see detailed pictures is on the Cromarty Forge website.

They are a little tricky to cut out (you need to get the shields out first) but lovely to paint. The issue, and it's a small one, is with the shields. The detailing is microscopically raised so difficult to pick out with paint with any accuracy. If someone made decals or transfers that fitted these shields then that would be perfect – I wrote to Steven Hales at LBMS but have not heard from him.

Highly recommended and next up on this project will be some Numidian cavalry. Impetus basing.

 

18mm Eureka: WAS Austrian Cuirassiers

 

Two squadrons of Anhalt-Zerbst Cuirassier regiment (of a planned 4 squadrons).

12mm Epic Scale ECW: Royalist Cavalry 5 and 6

 

Two more units of Royalist cavalry.

18mm Old Glory: WAS Austrians: IR Deutschmeister 1st BTN

 

Another battalion of Old Glory's SYW Austrian range. The glorious flags are from Dave Morfitt's range of Charles VI flags which are suitable for the WAS and early SYW.They are much more interesting than the common 'yellow' in use by the end of the SYW. Plus the infantry form up in 4 ranks.

15/18mm WSS Khurasan – Tattenbach Bavarian Regiment

The third of my Bavarians battalions.

 

15/18mm WSS Khurasan – Maffei Bavarian Regiment

 

Second of my Bavarians battalions – four are planned.

12mm Epic Scale ECW: Royalist Cavalry 3 and 4

 

Two more units of Royalist cavalry.

15/18mm WSS: Khurasan – Dutch Regiment Friesheim

 

15/18mm WSS: Khurasan – Dutch Regiment Pallandt

The first of the 4 planned Dutch battalions. I painted this one because I love the flags and yellow facings.

15/18mm WSS: Khurasan – 3rd Foot Churchill's

 

Another lovely battalion of 36 figures.

18mm Old Glory: WAS Austrians: Karlstädter-Lykaner Grenzer

These are very nice Old Glory figures – the detailing is superb although the muskets are rather vulnerable. I want to do a couple of battalions (duplicating them in close and skirmish order) and here is the first in close order. I found this illustration of a flag on the web but I have no idea concerning it's accuracy. It's certainly unusual in it's swallow-tail guidon form. Dave Morfitt has done lovely artwork, as usual.

 

12mm Epic Scale ECW: Royalist Cavalry 2

 

The Queen's Lifeguard, the second of the cavalry regiments.

18mm Old Glory: WAS Austrians: IR Lothringen

 

Both battalions finished. I could do a third battalion, as that was quite common in this period, but I prefer to stick to two battalion regiments.