Monday, June 26, 2017

Spanish Militia

These are the spanish militia, the other half of the Spanish Guerilla set from Hat Industries. There is enough on that set to come up with these 3 small units of militiamen.

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There is rather scarce information on colors of napoleonic spanish militia uniforms on the web, but what little I could find suggests white, blue and brown were the main colors used, so I painted each unit in one of those.

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With these, I finally finish that which was one of my first kits of napoleonics 1/72, bought a few years ago and left to sit on my shelves for a while before getting their well deserved turn on the painting qeue.

Sunday, June 18, 2017

Spanish Guerillas

Here are my spanish guerillas. This is about half the Hat Spanish Guerilla kit, the other half being militia, which will be appearing here on the blog in sequence.

I never painted that many skirmishers' bases at once, but now I have enough to come up with 4 small units of those guys. Plenty to harass those nasty french columns!

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An interesting fact about this set is that 2 sculptors of rather distinct styles worked on those minis, some models being slim and more realistically proportioned, others being bulkier and a bit more heroically scalled, instead. My preference goes for the first, but overall those are pretty cool sculpts, only I could not mix those models on the same base, lest it'd look a bit off.

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Among those skirmishers are a few dressed as militia, which I might use together with my regimented militia, to represent a mixed order formation.

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Each of my small units of skirmishers comprises 6 bases of 2 models each, like the one pictured below:

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Next up, the spanish militia!

Thursday, June 8, 2017

Russian Foot Artillery

Here is another kit of russian artillery from Zvezda, this time line artillery. As always, gorgeous sculpts, a joy to paint.

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The kit also includes an ammunition wagon and a limber:

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I added to the base of the ammunition wagon a small ammunition cart that comes in the Guard Artillery kit.

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Thursday, June 1, 2017

Russian Guard Artillery

Here is my first unit of artillery for the russians. These are Zvezda's Russian Guard Heavy Artillery kit, the "old" kit, which comes with 3 guns + plenty of crew:

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