Saturday, December 30, 2017

Russian Headquarters

I've just finished the first part of a long awaited project of mine, napoleonic personalities and headquarters. These here are the russian Headquarters, and amongst them, a lot of personalities.

Strelets has done a handful of command models for each major power of the napoleonic wars, often combined in sets of 2 nations (British and Austrian; Russian and Prussian). The french received 2 full kits of personalities.

Those kits are currently out of production, but most can still be found quite often on ebay. I managed to grab one of each, including the very rare dismounted french staff, which cost me a small fortune (!).

No set has more historical personalities than the russian one, which is understandable, given that Strelets is a russian company. These russians are some of the best sculpted headquarters from Strelets' adventure into that venue. 

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I put (mostly) one personality per base, and named each for easy reference. I used a handful of other models from Zvezda, Hat and Italeri to help "set the scene" of each command base.

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Finally, the Tsar. Note the pavlovski grenadier on the back. It's a conversion I did using an Italeri head on a Zvezda body, to create a late war uniformed grenadier of that regiment. Now that I see that it works and looks perfect, I'll be doing a full battalion of those corverts in the near future -I realised I have enough Italeri heads to execute such project.

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The Tsar is accompanied by the Quartermaster Volkonsky.

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9 comments:

  1. Great looking command stands. We did a bunch for our Borodino project a few years back.

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  2. Excellent work, a great finish to the year

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  3. Spectacular work on these, what an excellent command set!

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  4. You have done a beautiful job on these.

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  5. What a wonderful collection, Barclay de Tolly's my favourite...

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  6. Very good! Can't wait to see Napoleon and Wellington down the road as well as other personalities from other nations.

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  7. Wonderfull painted Command stands! And a Happy New Year!

    Greetings
    Peter

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  8. Thanks, everyone! Happy new year to you all!

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