Monday, January 29, 2018

French Old Guard Chasseurs a Pied

Having spent most of my efforts last year on building my russian army from the scratch, this year I'm going to invest more on the french and other major armies, and here are my first 2 units for my Grand Armeé in 2018, the Chasseurs a Pied of the Old Guard.

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These are Hat Industries models, I managed to grab a couple kits of them on Ebay, they are currently quite rare, being out of stock for a while now - although Hat has announced they'll be restocking their entire line in time.

With 2 boxes, I built 2 batallions and 8 bases of skirmishers, and still have a few models left on my spare box for future projects. I use 4 bases of skirmishers per unit, to represent mixed order, thus the need for 8 bases.

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The kits don't come with an officer of flag bearer, so I had to make due with what I had in hand. The flag bearers were converted by trimming the musket off the NCO's and using bits I had in stock for the poles/eagles.

For the officers, one of the battalions received an officer from the Zvezda Old Guard box, the other received an officer from the Italeri set, with a head swap. Both required a few adjustments on their uniforms to look correct for Chasseurs.

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Monday, January 22, 2018

British and Allied Staff

Here is the British staff, along with a couple command bases of allies. As usual, these are a mix of personalities from Strelets and a handful from other manufacturers, such as Hat and Waterloo 1815.

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First, the british personalities:

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I have two versions of Picton. The one below is from Waterloo 1815:

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And this one here is from Strelets. A very cartoony Picton, in the style of Strelets. It's quite interesting to compare two very ditinct styles of sculting on the same subject.

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 The Duke of Wellington:

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The Duke of Brunswick:

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Prince William of Orange, accompanied by a Nassau Jaeger officer:

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A handful of unnamed commanders to complete my british headquarters:

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As I like dramatic vignettes, this one below represents a reunion of commanders chivalrously debating the best course of action. 

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