New to Napoleonic need abit of help?

[carlos13th]

I can't give any advice knowing very little about napoleonics but can I request you post your stuff up here for us to see when you get around to painting it.

[Cubs]

This site is a goldmine - http://empire.histofig.com/Organisation-and-uniforms.html

[John b]

This site is a goldmine - http://empire.histofig.com/Organisation-and-uniforms.html

This is truly a gold mine thank you

And I will keep this thread going with my progress but might start a new one and if I do il let everyone know

[Cubs]

I don't know what your budget is, but I've got the British version of this book and I have to say it was an absolute revelation. It was fascinating and taught me an awful lot of stuff I didn't even know I didn't know!

http://www.ospreypublishing.com/store/French-Napoleonic-Infantry-Tactics-1792%E2%80%931815_9781846032783

[John b]

What I'm trying to find is a painting guide??

[carlos13th]

http://bennosfiguresforum.com/viewtopic.php?f=15&t=7620

http://ploughsharestoswords.blogspot.co.uk/2012/04/voltigeurs-with-extra-painting-guide.html

[John b]

http://bennosfiguresforum.com/viewtopic.php?f=15&t=7620

http://ploughsharestoswords.blogspot.co.uk/2012/04/voltigeurs-with-extra-painting-guide.html

Thanks for this its brilliant

[Gary Peach]

The boxes are great with paint uniform references...  http://centjours.mont-saint-jean.com/ has many uniform plates for all regt etc.

[John b]

Borrowed this from a friend and its helping loads

[joroas]

There are also two Napoleonic War guides for Black Powder, Peninsular War and Waterloo.  Check the Warlord website, although they are probably cheaper on Amazon.  Foundry have a nice book on Napoleonic gaming, too.

[John b]

Ok so after reading through blackbpowder and asking a lot of questions and using google to do a lot of research Iv made an investment in some miniatures and this is what Iv got so far



These are Victrix French 60 miniatures for about £20


Thes are perry french again for about £20 a box

I bought 2 boxes of the perrys and one box of the Victrix and I plan to mix and match them to give more of a variety in size and uniform as the scales size is spot on

[Slekke]

Mixing perry with victrix ?  Absolute not.  They don't match, and after a while you will be terrible disappointed.  Victrix bayonets break off !!

Use you perry boxes (buy 4 boxes of inf) a blitz of extra officers, and father a while you will need some extra perry blitz (flank inf).  Perry plastic is very solid, victrix is NOT.  Use Perry Dragoons, Cuirrassiers (&Carabiniers) and some hussars for your basic horses.

You have to understand, that you are very lucky you can make a french army (and not a British), because in Napoleonic you will always need French, and only exceptional British.

The guy who is writing this, has already 6.000 units of 28mm Napoleonic, mainly foundry & perry (French (several brigades regular & guard), Italian, Westphalian, Bavarian, Austrian, Brunwick, KGL's, ... and working very soon on Russians)

I made a victrix Old guard chasseurs & grenadiers, but there were crap, so i sold them.  Everything of plastic broke off, terrible !

If you need some help in building up.  Sometime i sell some painted units (very soon some French Guard 3e Grenadiers the well known Dutch guard). 

It can be interesting to buy some well painted units to have some examples what result you can make.  And please remember you need painting quantity and not 100+ quality.  It is the amount of painted units on the table that count.

Greating from Flanders (30km from Ypres)

[Gary Peach]

Hi

Its not totally true you cant mix Perry and Victrix, and a lot of the Victrix kits just require some thought about gluing them together, and take your time. I find that you can mix parts from the 2 types to get a broad variety of poses too.

Where the mix is a problem - is the Victrix are pre 1813/4 uniform changes.  If your looking for uniform painting guides this will show the differences.  The main visual difference is with the tunic and waist coat.

[John b]

Thanks for the advice slekke, I'm not to fussed with mixing them as I'm not trying to be 100% accurate to a set time scale I'm just after a visual representation so I can play a few games and my painting level is above average I would say so I'm ok with that, the advice on how I should build my army is great as this has been a sticking point for me for a few weeks

[wrgmr1]

Here is a website for French Uniforms for the Waterloo period. The basic colors are the same however, and will give you an idea for Line, Light,  and cavalry.

http://centjours.mont-saint-jean.com/unitesFR.php

Click on Types d'unités
then Unités
Then whichever unit you wish to look up.
It will bring up a box with the unit, blue highlights give you battalion and or officers.

I use this all the time.

Cheers,
Thomas