I have been working on rebasing my 1808 Russians for way too long. But now everything is at least mounted on the new type of bases and I have applied the Vallejo texture goo, which is the more time consuming part of the process. After that I will drybrush the bases and paint the edges. In the final step I will apply some flock and static grass. Pictured is half of the total Russian force, the other half I have already finished basing.
As you can see, I have a few skirmishers, of the Sevsk and Mogilev regiments. The plan is to have three skirmish bases of jägers and three of musketeers for every brigade. My main goal right now is to get to a position where I have a fully useable army of three brigades of four battalions and one artillery piece each. Cavalry is not a priority for this setting, but I have painted (but not yet re-based) one cossack unit of 9 figures and will need to paint a few more hussars to get them to the same strength. For the Finnish war, one will rarely need more than two cavalry units, although there is certainly room to paint both uhlans and dragoons – although dragoons only participated in one or two battles and they were not present at any of the major engagements. Uhlans however, were a bit more commonly seen. Also, it should be said that the Russians often did field slightly more cavalry than the Swedes.
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