Re-booting my 40mm Napoleonics, AWI and War of 1812

[Alan Mercer]

Napoleonic (and 1812) Infantry base sizes are 50mm frontage and 60mm depth. Skirmishers and command figures are on 60mm round bases. This works well for Sash and Saber and Perry. I haven't decided on Cavalry base sizes yet, I suppose I should really as there are some on the painting table.

For AWI, the bases were the same size, but I used 60mm frontage and 50mm depth as the figures were bigger (Front Rank and Triguard) and looked a bit odd squashed onto a 50mm frontage. I'm going to start to re-visit the AWI this year.  In 40mm of course.

[schoey]

Cheers Alan, will give it a try, most my French are  Sash and sabre, my Spanish are Perries.

Paul

[Alan Mercer]

Another group of Voltigeurs.

And a base added to a AWI British Battalion, 15th. The uniform is speculative and based on a Troiani painting.

The bases on the left and centre were painted in 2018, so I had forgotten which paints I used. The new ones almost match. Kind of.

 They aren't my favorite sculpts, odd proportions, very large, and the officer has an odd arm.

[schoey]

Those British lights are looking good.

Paul

[CapnJim]

Those chaps look good to me!

[Alan Mercer]

Some Austrian Jagers, All 40mm Sash and Saber. Trying to get to grips with the camera on my phone.

The idea is to represent jagers skirmishing along a hedgerow.

[schoey]

Excellent jaegers, terrific basing, the shrubs/bushes is a great idea.

Paul

[Alan Mercer]

Here's the command base for a Battalion of Hungarians. I've made a silly error in that the Ensign should be wearing a shako but, for some reason, I ran out of shakos. Not sure what happened. Anyway, another 18 to go. Sash and Saber 40s.

Also added the start of my 40mm AWI reboot, 66% of 1st Maryland, 6 more figures and a flag to do. Front Rank miniatures. I'll probably start a new thread for this once it gets going properly as there will be a lot of it.

[Alan Mercer]

1st Maryland finished.

[Count Belisarius]

Those are very nice. 40mm is not a scale I've ever considered. Though I do have some 42mm shiny toy soldier types.

[schoey]

Alan, lovely looking Austrians, wonder the marching chaps could be used as German allies in Spain?

Look forward to seeing more

Paul

[Alan Mercer]

I think they could for some. The Austrian Germans would make good stand-ins for Wurzburg (with covered shako heads for later), Hungarians for Reus (would need shako heads).  They wouldn't be 100% correct, but close enough. Others might be more tricky to re-create.

My original intention was to use the Germans as Wurzburg, but I then thought 'sod it' I'll do Austrians.

[Alan Mercer]

A command base for my 40mm AWI collection. Front Rank miniatures.

[traveller]

Excellent work! 

[Bloggard]

they've come out a treat.