These are my first attempts at making some members of the Gyllenbögel free corps, a volunteer unit composed of various ex-soldiers and civilians. It was created in the summer of 1808 and saw action at a number of battles. The figures are simple conversions from Perry AWI figures and a Brigade Games Canadian 1812 militiaman (if I am not mistaken). The converting and painting on these is very quick and simple and I hope to be able to make quite a lot of these shortly. They will be complemented with Finnish uniformed officers and NCO:s, plus a few uniformed soldiers mixed in. I will need three, possibly four battalions; the free corps will make up the equivalent of a small brigade. Apart from the above ranges of figures, Ill use Perry French (1814 national guard), Norwegian landevaern and perhaps some Spanish and Prussian (Landwehr) figures. Some of them will need no converting at all, such as the many figures wearing caps or no headgear at all as well as the uniformed men. One of the battalions will consist of a larger part of uniformed soldiers, representing the “sharpshooter” battalion, which consisted solely of escaped soldiers.
These figures are great ones to make and paint, each one is individual and one gets to be quite creative in making little changes to make them as heterogenous as possible.
Pancratist 