Perry Miniatures - 28mm - FN18 Foot Artillery loading 6 pounder

Talking about boredom earlier... well french normally do not sound like fun at all, but if you are painting up one gun you can also do your second one...:))



FN18 Foot Artillery loading 6 pounder

Manufacturer: Perry Miniatures
Scale: 28mm
Metal/Plastic : Metal

Number of Model:

4 Miniatures
1 Gun

Perry Miniatures - 28mm - FN17 Foot Artillery firing 6 pounder

Back to the "normal" schedule...

After selling off all my remaining british napoleonic line infantry (as I found it totally boring painting them) I finished my FN17 French Napoleonic Foot Artillery firing 6 pounder.

Manufacturer: Perry Miniatures
Scale: 28mm
Metal/Plastic : Metal

Number of Model:

4 Miniatures
1 Gun

Perry Miniatures - 28mm - FN55 Mounted and dismounted Staff officers (1 Ajutant-commander, 2 Adjoints)

I will use these as my artillery commanders for my french brigade.

They consist of:

Manufacturer: Perry Miniatures
Scale: 28mm
Plastic/Metal: Metal
Miniatures: 3 horses, 3 Miniatures

Victrix - Napoleonics - 28mm Line Infantry Middleguard (12 Miniatures) - leftovers Part 2

Manufacturer: Victrix

Scale: 28 mm

Plastic/Metal: Plastic

Miniatures: 12

 

These are my leftovers from the large Middleguard Box by Victrix. In some cases the moulds seem not be as normally good as there was some heavy cutting from my side upfront to get excess material away

 

 

Victrix - Napoleonics - 28mm Line Infantry Middleguard (12 Miniatures) - leftovers

Manufacturer: Victrix

Scale: 28 mm

Plastic/Metal: Plastic

Miniatures: 12

 

These are my leftovers from the large Middleguard Box by Victrix. In some cases the moulds seem not be as normally good as there was some heavy cutting from my side upfront to get excess material away

 

 

Adler Miniatures - 6mm - Napoleonic French Light Infantry

Sensational it is to paint 6mm Figures. Compared to the other scales i paint this really really really is tiny , but to the advantage.. if you paint 15mm afterwards you simply see more... sounds weired but it is perception...

So here we go with French Napoleonic Light Infantry

Manufacturer: Adler Miniatures
Scale: 6mm
Metal/Plastic:Metal
Number of Miniatures : 60

(in case you also miss in the front rank one strip of command, you are true, as the blisters I got first of all carry infantry only and the second unopened blister holds the complete commands... so commands (ensign or eagle bearer, infantry nco, drummer) will be for a later post..

Adler Miniatures - 6mm - Napoleonic Line Infantry (24 miniatures)

This is quite a funny thing. After reading a couple of blogs and regarding my own table space I decided to take a look at 6mm miniatures.
After a bit undecided I phoned both Baccus and Adler Miniatures for advice. I got the "better" answer by Adler and placed an order for a complete french division.

Here we got with a first piece.

Base size: 60 x 30 mm
Manufacturer: Adler Miniatures
Metal/Plastic : Metal
Pieces : 24 Miniatures

Perry Miniatures - Plastic French Husars (5th Husars) -Part 2

Perry Miniatures - Plastic French Husars (5th Husars)

 I finished the second half (thats 7) of the box from the fantastic Perry Miniatures Plastic Husars box.

Scale: 28mm
Manufacturer: Perry Miniatures
Metal/Plastic: Plastic


And down is a picture of all of them :)

Victrix Miniatures - 28mm - French Middle Guard (24 Miniatures)

The whole Victrix plastics box contains approx 60 Miniatures. Due to my regimental sizing I did paint 24 first which leaves me another regiment and then 12 spares... lets see what comes out with them..

I have to tell you that even as the box is one of their more latest additions the sprues sometimes suck as hell. I have had less problems with their other boxes when it comes to cleaning up of the models from their sprues. Here we have a couple of things that seemingly went wrong.

Manufacturer: Victrix Miniatures
Plastic/Metal: Plastic
Scale : 28mm
Number in Unit: 24

Perry Miniatures - 28mm - Dutch Red Lancers (12 Pieces)

This is one of my most favourite Regiments by now. The dutch Red Lancers. I had quite a hard time finding out about the uniforms. Even Ospreys pictures depict them nearly black. Different blogs paint them quite blue and red...

I went for the Osprey variation. The "blue" is 1/3 intense blue by Vallejo mixed with 2/3 of Negro by Vallejo. This makes them seemingly black. If you hold them in the sun or would strip them off their colour it goes blue :)

Funny effect.

So here we go:

Manufacturer: Perry Miniatures
Plastic/Metal: Metal
Scale : 28mm
Number in Unit: 12 pieces

Perry Miniatures - Plastic French Husars (5th Husars)

As to there I got the left overs from the previous post. I finished half (thats 7) of the box from the fantastic Perry Miniatures Plastic Husars box.

Scale: 28mm
Manufacturer: Perry Miniatures
Metal/Plastic: Plastic

33rd Elite Infantry Regiment de Linie (Napoleonics)

Everything comes in strange ways. My plan was to build up my Victrix Plastics and paint a new french regiment (possibly Middle Guard)....

Then I found my old boxes and some left overs... so I assembled 18 nice mixtured Plastics.

Left overs:

Victrix - Napoleonic French Line Regiment
Perry Miniatures Plastics - Husars (heads)

Scale: 28mm

19th Regiment de Linie - French Napoleonic Infantry - 24 Figures

This one also finished over the weekend.

28mm / Perry Miniatures (Plastic) / French Napoleonic Infantry - 19th Regiment de Linie

(in case someone notices.. in some cases I simply put on the flank infantry sabers)

Couple of words on painting

Nearly one year ago I started painting my own miniatures for playing wargames. Having done such a thing never before I used to learn painting by try and error and often find myself repainting my miniatures then I developed a new technic.


My miniature 28mm soldiers are mainly manufactured by the British companies Front Rank, Perry Miniatures and Victrix. I use Vallejo and Games Workshop paints for the figures and  for the horses.

Are my figures completely accurate? Well, although my philosophy is to get them as close to accurate as possible, there are limits imposed by the actual castings and the small amount of reference material I have available. But bear in mind that an infantry battalion of only 24 men is not accurate in itself, so other small errors pale into insignificance in comparison!
I don't actually get to use these figures in many wargames, but when I do, the rules I use are Black Powder.

My figures have not been specifically based for any set of rules, but instead use base-sizes that I find visually pleasing and leave room for any possibility arising. This means I do a one-to-one basing with 20mm x 20mm (single figure) for infantry and the fiting sizes for cavaly and artillery.

One last point - it is notoriously difficult to photograph the colour blue accurately. The colour of the uniform coats in the photographs on this site varies from picture to picture, and often looks much lighter than on the actual figures themselves. So please do not rush to email me to tell me my shade of blue is wrong!

French Napoleonic Old Guard Grenadiers in Campaign Dress 1805 (24 Miniatures)

As Victrix currently offers 30% off of each of their boxes I took hold of this bargain and ordered a couple of their miniatures.

Victrix provides them in plastic sprues which leaves room for variety.

After cross checking the boxes:

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 I found out that I could build a bit more out of the two I ordered. So the Old Guard Grenadiers in Campaign Dress of 1805 are born. In case someone might notice... I take my uniform colours from the Osprey books..

So here we go:

Frontrank Miniatures - Napoleonic French 9 pounder Foot Artillery

Of course its not all about the british... so french napoleonics got also their first gun. This one is a metal one by Frontrank Miniatures....

Colours used here are Vallejo... enjoy !