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Miniatures Adventure => Age of the Big Battalions => Topic started by: alcal on December 18, 2020, 09:00:16 PM
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Hi
Thought it was time to catalogue what ive been doing with my 28mm French army.
Just trying to finish some Empress Dragoons ,there was other things in the queue but i couldn`t resist jumping in and painting them.
I struggled to find a make that showed them at there most dynamic at the end of the charge,the closest was Front Rank (beautiful figures with raised detail always make painting easy work)my worry was they are a larger cast than most but after speaking to Spike and looking on line i took the risk.And i`m so pleased i did they fit in really well( wouldn`t mix the infantry though).
The horses are slightly heavier looking (not enough to bother me) also a bonus for heavy cavalry.They only have a couple of poses that i really wanted and 30 odd the same would nt work so i test bent the arms to get other angles on the swords which i promptly chopped off and replaced with the steel thrusting type.
Cheers AL
EMPRESS DRAGOONS
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Looking good!
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Impressive work! Looking forward to see them based, in particular the general and ADC.
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This is great, especially that it's such a proper large unit. I'd love to paint the Empress Dragoons one day. Front Rank surely never is a bad choice. :)
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Those are real beauties! :-*
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Stunning :-* :-* :-* :-* :-* :-*
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Great work!
I really like those Front Rank figures :-* 8) :-*
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More Guard Cavalry
The 2nd Red Dutch Lancers (plus a squadron of Polish lancers).Plastic figures from Victrix, not a big fan of plastic figures and the cavalry are just so light . Ive added a plasticard /steel base rather than a plasticard/magnetic paper base to add a little more gravity to them,although they stick to the box so well now i have to be carefull how i pull them free :-[ .
Also i dont see those lances surviving long term but they are such a part of the seperate arm that i didnt risk cutting them off and replacing them with steel but if i loose any i will have to drill and fix in situ .
cheers AL
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Quite magnificent :o
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ADC`s plus a Brigade Commander , there are so many because we play General d`Armee
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Chasseurs A` Pied of the Imperial Guard
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Voltigeurs and Tirailleurs of the Young Guard
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6pdr and 12pdr batteries of the Guard
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Nice painting! :-*
You are going to need a football field to play a game! ;)
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Excellent collection, very well done.
Paul
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The 7th Hussars , Warlord plastic with metal command, once again i swapped the swords out for steel on these.
Cheers AL
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3rd Lancers these are Perry Metal
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3rd Chasseurs these are also Perry metal
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These are the two Brigade commands for the light cavalry plus a horse battery
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Fabulous collection with superb animation and painting . I can only imagine the time and effort needed to bring them to this standard. The Line Lancers , in particular , caught my eye . The Young Guard units are usually involved in any heavy fighting on a tabletop . I’ll certainly follow any future posts .
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Fabulous collection with superb animation and painting . I can only imagine the time and effort needed to bring them to this standard. The Line Lancers , in particular , caught my eye . The Young Guard units are usually involved in any heavy fighting on a tabletop . I’ll certainly follow any future posts .
There is loads more im posting as i take the pics cheers AL
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The 3rd Cuirassiers......... Perry`s with replaced swords.
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The 1st Cuirassiers......... Perry`s with replaced swords,with Brigade Command
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The 5th Cuirassiers......... Perry`s with replaced swords,with Brigade Command
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The 2nd Dragoons.... Warlord plastic (noticed the officers sword was damaged already in the picture,its now steel.
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Lovely. I just dig the look of French cuirassiers. Also really well done photos with proper good depth of field. Looking forward to seeing more. Merry Christmas!
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Brilliant work, inspirational in fact! I really need to find more time so I can progress my Napoleonic French project.
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Lovely work, truly inspiring :-* Some day I will have to get some cuirassiers, too, despite focussing on the peninsular.
Out of curiosity, what did you replace the swords with?
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Lovely work, truly inspiring :-* Some day I will have to get some cuirassiers, too, despite focussing on the peninsular.
Out of curiosity, what did you replace the swords with?
Some soft steel tag wire ,i flattened it with a hammer then thinned it down with a sand wheel on my dremel cheers AL
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The dragoons at the start are great! But the thread in general is a joy to look at! The idea with the steel wire for swords is particularly helpful! Thank you and Merry Christmas as well!
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Light infantry , just a few close up the rest are in the storage box.
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Line infantry , just a few close up the rest are in the storage box.
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Foot Artillery
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Part of the skirmish screen.
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The last pic cheers AL
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Thanks for the tip with the metal swords.
Lovely painting once more and an impressive collection :-* Too bad they are in storage.
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Amazingly beautiful collection! :-*
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Wonderful collection, very impressive, like the basing of your mounted officers.
Paul
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Two batteries of Guard Horse Artillery as my technique is quite fast don`t be surprised that I did these and a 24 man Prussian Dragoon Rgt (see Prussian army thread)since last Wednesday.
Cheers AL
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Front Rank French Carabiniers with steel swords and arm bends.
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Wow. Nice work
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Beautiful work....maybe I need to dust mine off but I won’t be able to field many of these in the Peninsular 😩
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Excellent stuff!!!! :-*
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A stunning collection :-*
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Super. Not by halves, then.
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Brilliant! I'm incredibly jealous!
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I’ve collected fantasy for years but have been rereading early Sharpe novels and watching a very interesting series of YouTube videos on Napoleonic wargaming basics, like what made all the combatant nations different and what a curraisier is vs a hussar vs a lancer (never had a clue). So playing with the idea of jumping into say Sharp Practice. But I’m totally thrown by what the scale differences will be between say Warlord, Victrix and Perry. But you seem to happily use all three interchangeably? Beautiful all of it BTW. Maybe you could do some comparisons when you next get the various units out? For example I’m playing with getting Warlord Russians and a guy at the FLGS has Perry French and I don’t want to tower over his.
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wonderful collection.