Wahey, many thanks for the nice comments!
@DintheDin: Well, guards units deserve special attention.
And these projects are always just a handful of figures, which of course won't let me rely of 'the massed impression' to work in my favour.
@OSHIROmodels: Thanks, Sir!
@archiduque: Thanks for dropping by and commenting. Much appreciated.
@LazyStudent: Thanks very much. Mustn't forget about the horses. Uniforms will always look nice due to in-built contrast and all, but the horses play a big role in the overall look I think.
@flags_of_war: Many thanks!
@OB: Cheers!
@ZaOtlichiye: Thanks, and your site is a treasure trove of useful info. Great resource. The gentleman I paint these smaller units for usually gives me excellent instructions on the units he wants done (and how he wants them done), but especially in Napoleonics the more info the better! Not the least just to confirm other sources. Also of course many thanks for the info on the vexilium!
@Calimero: Exactly. Thanks very much!
@Digits: Thank you!
@schoey: Absolutely. I can't quite decide whether I prefer FR or Perrys. Currently I'm veering towards Front Rank, simply because they're so nice to paint and cast to a great quality. But then I get a unit of Perrys, and these are just really, really good sculpts as well. For my own Napoleonics project I'm using mostly Front Rank (and Victrix plastics) now.
@JohnFoA: Thanks, Sir! Yeah, I'm rather sure they didn't take them with them into battle. But then again, maybe they did for show to upstage the other Guards cavalry unit they've been feuding with constantly and when they were ordered to charge they had some junior officer quickly return it to safety or something? Either way, the things is that we always abstract a bit on the wargames table (to varying degrees). And when depicting guard units I'd rather have all the bells and whistles on them, even if they didn't carry them into battle, simply because it looks pretty and let's be honest - how often will we get to do these units? And if we do, would we rather do them in their extra impressive variant or a 'realistic' one? I'm sure there'll be people who disagree on that, but I tend to go for more colourful when it comes to wargames units rather than less colourful. But then I'm also one of those perverts who paint their rivers blue, so my judgement just may be off.
