Shiny Napoleonics… The 3rd Regiment Etranger 1811-1814 (The Irish Regiment)

Greetings…

Here we have my version of the French Napoleonic ‘Irish Regiment’…

The 3rd Regiment Etranger 1811-1814. 

My inspiration for this unit was the work of my good blogging comrades…

Matthew from Hinton Spieler.

https://thehintonspieler.blogspot.com/2024/04/united-irishmen.html

And David from Miniature Minions…

http://miniatureminions.blogspot.com/2024/04/legion-irlandaise.html

Of course for inspiration read ‘shameless copying’ 😁

So… Here we go.

The figures are Ros 25mm Figures…

For more information on this company may I suggest Bobs excellent blog…

http://ros25mmfigures.blogspot.com/2015/02/beginnings.html

I did have to do some work on them… Shortening the coat tails and gaiters then adding short swords to the Chasseurs.

The command are Minifigs…

When I bought these figures I originally thought they were Minifigs… And they do fit rather well with both ‘S’ and ‘Intermediate’ ranges.

For the standard I used a GMB Designs French light Infantry flag which I altered to say 3rd Regiment Etranger … This does not survive close examination but works okay for me…

The Uniforms are… Foundry… Forest Green Shade 26B.

The Yellow bits are… AK Interactive… Volcanic Yellow AK11042.

The Red bits are… Citadel… Evil Sunz Scarlet.

The Green bits are… Citadel… Warboss Green.

The White bits are… Citadel… Pallid Wych Flesh.

The Gaiters are… Citadel… Corvus Black.

Everything was given a wash of Aly’s Brown Liquid then highlighted with the original colours… The lighter colours were then given an extra highlight to pick them out a bit more.

The paints were Citadel, Wargames Foundry and AK Interactive.

https://www.wargamesfoundry.com/collections/paint

https://www.games-workshop.com/en-GB/Painting-Modelling 

https://ak-interactive.com/product-category/paints/

The bases are as always…

https://warbases.co.uk/product-category/bases/round-cornered-bases/mdf-rc/

The Flag is GMB Designs…

https://gmbdesigns.com/

I have read that the Ros French Infantryman is one of the ugliest figures ever made…I am sure I have seen worse.

They take a bit more work than Minifigs or Lammings but I am very pleased with the results.

The Butterfly has managed to land on something new and interesting…I will reveal more when I have painted something…. There is also some more shininess on the go. 

All the best   Aly

Shiny Napoleonics…. French Foot Dragoons.

Greetings….

Another shiny thing…

The French 6th Regiment of dragoons… Deployed as infantry…

I got these lovely Garrison Foot Dragoons from Rob Young and absolute age ago… And typically when I decide to paint them my Sarcoidosis ( look it up if you must but take my word for it… it sucks. )decides to flair up and just for fun it has affected my right eye… 

It is a condition that just keeps giving 

They took a lot longer to paint than I thought they would….But I persevered and now they are done.

Maybe not as slick as I would want them to be…

Anyway…Here you go.

To add insult to injury as the varnish was drying on these I discovered that at the battle of Jena there were two composite regiments of Foot Dragoons that were attached to the Imperial Guard… Meaning I could have mixed the facing colours instead of just using red… Ha! Well… maybe next time 😁

The Tunics are… Foundry… Forest Green 26B.

The Breeches are… War Front (Scale Colour)… Braun SW28.

The Waistcoats are… Citadel… Pallid Wych Flesh.

The Gaiters are… Citadel… Corvus Black.

Everything was the given a wash of Aly’s Brown Liquid… Then highlighted with the original colours… some of the lighter colours were given an extra highlight…

The paints are Wargames Foundry,Citadel and Scale Color.

https://www.wargamesfoundry.com/collections/paint

https://www.games-workshop.com/en-GB/Painting-Modelling 

https://scale75.com/en/123-miniatures-paints

The bases are as always…

https://warbases.co.uk/product-category/bases/round-cornered-bases/mdf-rc/

I am going to take it easy for a while as my eye issues calm down…but I have some nice shiny Irish Legion on the go… plus all the other butterfly nonsense 

All the best   Aly

A New Book…

Greetings.

A while ago I was asked to make a short talk at work about art that has inspired me…

There were no restrictions as to whether it was historical or fantasy… it was about what inspired me…

Baron Louis Francois Lejeune…

I’ve always loved his work… There is so much to see in every painting… Lejeune was a serving officer in Napoleons Army and was at a number of the battles portrayed in his pictures….

Although only in the French language I am fortunate to be surrounded buy French colleagues… So if I need any help it is very close…

There are so many good ideas for interesting vignettes to be found in every picture…

I would love have a nice sized copy of The Battle of Moscow/ Borodino on my wall…

Pretty pictures and not toys…I know.

Shiny things next time…

All the best. Aly

Shiny Napoleonics… Prussian Command.

Greetings…

More Shiny and this time it’s a couple of command types…

Both are conversions and are also (mostly) Hinchliffe…

This first one is a converted Blucher figure… A simple head swap… The head came from another Hinchliffe figure… A French officer on foot…

The horse is a relatively early model as it was cast without any reins … I made mine from flattened fuse wire… 

Next up…

A Prussian Fieldjager acting as a messenger…

This is the body of the French officer that donated the head to Blucher ( It’s all getting a bit Frankensteinian here).

The horse is an early Minifigs with saddlery add in Greenstuff.

These were a lot of fun…

Everything was the given a wash of Aly’s Brown Liquid… Then highlighted with the original colours… some of the lighter colours were given an extra highlight…

‘Bluchers’ Coat is… Citadel… Administratum Grey.

The Collar is… Citadel… Evil Sunz Scarlet.

The Fieldjagers Coat is… Foundry… Forest Green Shade 26B

The Trousers are… Ak Interactive… English Grey AK11020.

The paints are Wargames Foundry,Citadel and AK Interactive…

https://www.wargamesfoundry.com/collections/paint

https://www.games-workshop.com/en-GB/Painting-Modelling 

https://ak-interactive.com/product-category/paints/paints-acrylics/3rd-acrylics/

The bases are as always…

https://warbases.co.uk/product-category/bases/round-cornered-bases/mdf-rc/

All the best   Aly

Shiny Napoleonics… More Prussian Artillery.

Greetings…

Here is my next Prussian artillery battery…

The 10th Battery…

White uniforms on Prussian Artillery…😱.

Are you mad Morrison I hear you say…

No… well not as far as this is concerned…😵‍💫

During the campaign of 1813 the 10th Batteries uniforms became so worn that they needed to be replaced…

They received new uniforms in the October while they were stationed in Detmond … The uniforms were taken from the Lippe-Detmond reserves which they found locally… They only got new Prussian uniforms in 1814/1815…

Can you imagine trying to keep them white and looking clean whilst working the guns…

These figures are converted Minifigs French Artillery crew… I added Green Stuff shako covers and overalls… As there were only four figures to do it didn’t feel like too much of a task…

The Uniforms are… Citadel… Pallid Wych Flesh.

The Facings are… Foundry… Forest Green 26B.

The Gun Carriages are possibly… Citadel… The Fang.

As always everything was given a coat of Aly’s Brown Liquid and then re highlighted with the original colours…

The paints are Wargames Foundry and Citadel 

https://www.wargamesfoundry.com/collections/paint

https://www.games-workshop.com/en-GB/Painting-Modelling

The bases are as always…

https://warbases.co.uk/

All the best.   Aly

Shiny Napoleonics… Prussian Artillery.

Greetings…

It’s time for something shiny…

A couple of Prussian Guns…

Now the eagle eyed amongst you will have noticed that these a Hinchliffe fighters and not my go to Minifigs…

For some reason Minifigs Prussian Artillery and Command don’t seem to come up on the likes of eBay that often…

However I found these in a box…  I have a lot of boxes at the moment 😁

Now I’ve never been a great Hinchliffe fan ( Nor a Marmite fan either… Just so’s you know)

Peter Gilder made them look magnificent ( As do my my chums Rob Grace and Robbie Roddis ) but they never really did it for me… I prefer the toy like quality of Minifigs… Especially the Intermediate Range.

But there they were… All Prussian and Artillery like… It would have been rude not to.

I did actually enjoy the challenge of painting these … I even painted a couple of command types which I will post later…

The Tunics are… Citadel… Kantor Blue.

The Red bits are… Citadel… Evil Sunz Scarlet.

The Trousers are… Ak Interactive… English Grey AK11020.

The Gaiters are… Citadel… Corvus Black.

The Greatcoats are… Scale75 War Front…Slate Grey SW-42.

Everything was the given a wash of Aly’s Brown Liquid… Then highlighted with the original colours… some of the lighter colours were given an extra highlight…

The paints are from…

Citadel…

https://www.warhammer.com/en-GB/build-and-paint-lp

Ak Interactive…

https://ak-interactive.com/product-category/paints/paints-acrylics/3rd-acrylics/

Scale75…

https://scale75.com/en/123-miniatures-paints

The bases are as always…

https://warbases.co.uk/product-category/bases/round-cornered-bases/mdf-rc/

More shiny to come…

All the best   Aly

Crimean War… Russian Guns.

Greetings…

After reading David’s latest post on…

https://talesfromghq.blogspot.com/

I realised that I hadn’t actually posted a picture of my rebased Russian artillery…

So here they are… Squeezing themselves into the photo booth.

I’m having a bit of a rest from rebasing now… But when I have cleared some space on my wargames table I will have that promised parade…

The figures are of course Great War Miniatures… Painted by Dave Andrews.

https://www.northstarfigures.com/list.php?man=20&cat=175&page=1

The bases are as always Warbases…

https://warbases.co.uk/product-category/bases/premier-bases-metric/

Next I have some shiny toys on the way… 

All the best   Aly