I was ordering paint, and they kind of fell into my shopping basket... Honest guv!
Camera's playing up again
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Blurry advance
Charge
I'll go and paint the Caunter camo on that AEC Dorchester now...
At the charge
Heavy horse flesh
Clipclop
More figures than I'll ever need, what a shame!
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Pioneer supply wagon for my pioneer unit, goes with the barricades nicely
With removable canopy
Wagon team
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Suitably grimy
Off they go, into the sunset together
Wound markers
Some of the figures in action in last night's game.
Engineers and supply wagon on the move. Left my jump off points at home, so a Tardis sufficed!
My cuirassiers getting ready to charge the British deploying in an enclosure.
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In the midst of the battle, I am swinging right with my infantry. My artillery is pounding the British, but British shooting is crippling my cuirassiers!
They did get a charge off though, mission successful, even if one horse pulled up short! Game was a great draw.
Making a new squad, and the two spares will be added to purple squad, who are made up of everybody's spares and stragglers.
Top view
Trudge feels apt
They'll get there, eventually
"Let someone else do the fighting..."
You no doubt remember I was painting Napoleonic and SYW figures for Tom, the great chap who could not paint any more.
https://madlemmey.blogspot.com/2021/02/28mm-commission.html Yeah, those.
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Fire!
They do look good.
Well,
Tom a while back, gifted me several boxes full of his 28mm Napoleonic
figures from various sources (as well as an extraordinary amount of
research notes in several folders), just incredible. I went through the
boxes, and had a look at what I could use them for in a wargaming
manner. The obvious choice was Sharp Practice II as several of the
Leighton Buzzard club play it in Napoleonic times and it's a fun set to
play in an evening.
So, what did I find?
Many guns, good, and a
pack of Polish Legion artillery crew. That one I had to dig deep into
Tom's information to find their uniforms.
Many pioneers, as Tom
himself was in bomb disposal, this was a unit I had to do in his honour.
Tom suggested the Neapolitan 3rd Regiment, who was I to disagree.
A
lot of interesting command figures, including two mounted ADCs. Several
musicians and many standard bearers. That's a decent nascent force.
I
also had a couple of Foundry French from previous paint orders, so they
got added in to the calculations as I bulked these up to a full unit.
The
pioneers, lead by the dashing M. T. La Panthère, Legion D'Honneur. The
pioneers are made up of a mixed bag, 'volunteers' dragged out the
ranks. three Neapolitans, a Pole, some French including a pontonneur
that Tom had started. Communication within the unit is sometimes
difficult, (Latin covers a lot of ideas initially) but they always get
the job done.
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Ready for action
Back view
Ready...
The Polish legion gun and crew. Most people don't use artillery as far as I can see, so this should be a giggle.
I also painted up some gabions and a bag to add interest
"I really would not stand there!"
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Mounted ADCs
Nice animation on these
In a hurry lads?
Off they go!
Line fusiliers plus additional freebie. So, I set about unit building. A unit of infantry, an easy order. 
With drummer and officer
Marching marching
Away they go
Trudge
Officer,
trumpeter for the upcoming voltigeurs, a drummer and standard bearer
that needs me to make a decision which type to give him., an Eagle or fanion
Tom had already started the officer, I just finished it off
Back view
The batch, a nice Amuse-bouche before my next commission.
There
is also a unit of voltigeurs that will also be on the painting table
soon. Need to decide which unit to go with next, thinking dragoons or
hussars!
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