28mm French Dragoons for Sharp Practice

[ansbachdragoner]

I recently finished these dragoons for my Sharpe Practice 2 Peninsular forces. The mounted figures are all the recent release from Perry, and are beautiful sculpts - and as far as I know the only ones which show Dragoons in the campaign dress common in the Peninsular war. I'm really tempted to get some of the elite company figures, with their bearskin hats, and painting up a group of them.

The foot figures are the excellent Paul Hicks sculpts for Brigade games. Paul's Napoleonic stuff is amazing, some of the most characterful figures around IMHO - the Spanish Guerrillas and the Sharpe character figures he sculpted are absolutely amazing.

I painted these up as the 17e Regiment, which claimed to have captured a British colour at the Battle of Albuera in 1811, however from my research it looks like all of the colours were captured by the Vistula Lancers. The main reason I painted them as from the 17e though, is the pink facings. My history students always find it amusing that before the Victorian era, pink was actually seen as quite a masculine colour, and was used frequently on military uniforms.

P.S. - apologies to anyone who has already seen these on the SP facebook page.
Ben

[Poiter50]

Ben, always happy to look at your work for a second time, such lovely painting. I am just about to undercoat some of the plastic dismounted ones for my 3rd and 4th units of dragoons.

[Malamute]

Loved them on Facebook, love seeing them here as well

[JamesValentine]

The French sure make pink look good

[jambo1]

Great work, really lovely looking unit.

[Lardy Rich]

Ben

I utterly hate you!  I've been looking at my French Dragoons and dreading painting them.  Then you make it look easy.   

In order to make amends, I think you should post these to me.  You'd see them regularly on Lard Island News, so in a way they'd still be yours...sort of...    

Rich 

[OSHIROmodels]

Splendid 

cheers

James

[Dr DeAth]

Jolly Nice 

[Arthur]

Top job indeed. I already have the BG dismounted figures - which are every bit as good as you say - and their mounted Perry colleagues will be in the post soon. 

[SABOT]

Cracking work.

[archiduque]

Excellent work mate!

[95th Division]

Very, very nice.

[PAULSPENCE]

Hi,

You've doe a great job there!

Thanks for sharing.

Cheers,

Paul

[Plutarch64]

Lovely work.

[Cool Dad]

Quite stunning, my wallet trembles at the thought of getting some in 20mm...