Saturday 28 January 2017

A Return to Napoleonic Russia

Regular readers of this blog may recall that last February I commenced work on a Napoleonic Russian force consisting of an infantry division of twelve battalions and two batteries, supported by a couple of brigades of cavalry and some cossacks. I powered into this and by April last year I had five battalions and the command sets for another three, plus three units of cossacks - a total of 212 infantry figures, three mounted officers and eighteen cossacks - completed.

At that point I needed to concentrate on the Crimean War project and the Napoleonics went into a hiatus.  Now that the Crimean and Carlist projects are complete I have brought the Napoleonics back into focus.

The purchase earlier this month of four boxes of plastic infantry, 160 figures, is enough to complete all the infantry. The first phase was to complete the musketeer battalions of which there were these three units.




This completes all eight musketeer battalions. Still to be completed are the four battalions of jägers (one of which is three-quarters finished), two batteries of artillery, two regiments of dragoons, two of cuirassiers, two foot batteries and six mounted commanders. The three already completed regiments of cossacks have a dual purpose in that they are available for use in both the Crimean and Napoleonic wars.

16 comments:

  1. Excellent work, Mark! You really are a painting machine. Very economical to paint units once and use them in multiple periods. Smart!

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    1. Thanks Jonathan. Not really my best work, but get them in mass and you can't see the weaknesses. I am looking forward to working on the cavalry and artillery that will come next month.

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  2. Fabulous work! Bigger photos would be a bonus ;)

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    1. Yes a rather hurried post that one - it is a stunning day here today so I am minimising my time inside. The probkem with bigger photos is that they show the imperfections!

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  3. What a wonderful return to Nap! Most impressive Russians!

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    1. Thank you Phil. I have a soft spot for the Russian Napoleonic army.

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  4. Looking good Mark.
    You are apinting power house.
    Cheers
    Stu

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    1. Thanks Stu. Painting will slow for a few days while I complete a few more scratch built items for the WWI in East Africa project.

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  5. Good looking troops, quite a step forward to completing the force. Something satisfying in all that green.

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    1. I concur - the green does give a certain satisfaction.

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  6. I look forward to these Russian allies joining my Austrians on a table Mark - unless I am using French that day of course!

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    1. So long as I hold the redoubts that's fine by me.

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  7. You're certainly powering through the units Mark. Borodino at Tarawera this year?

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    1. No my focus for Tarawera this year will be East Africa in WWI and you will see the number of posts on this begin to rise soon. The Russians are really just a recreation of an army I owned in the late-70's and early-80's and subsequently sold.

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  8. Really nice work. I agree with the others: you are a painting machine.

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    1. Thank you Dale. The rate of painting will drop soon as the current project list is fullfilled - I am beginning to run out of storage space

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