Continuing to re-base my Napoleonic figures. Ive now done almost everything, even down to these old figures. First off are the Warlord Games 95th rifles, some of the first Napoleonics I ever painted. Ive had some ideas about doing a brigade or two of British to use for a “what if?”-scenario for the Finnish war. in the spring of 1808, a British division arrived in Gothenburg to support Sweden, one of Britain’s last remaining allies. The division was primarily intended for the Swedish invasion of Norway, which never happened. For that and various other reasons, the British division never came ashore. The Swedish king even tried to convince the British to use this force offensively against Russia, something the British were not prepared to do. Understandable considering the circumstances, but also sad, as the Swedish army could certainly have used some help!
The Russian jägers are part of a larger collection which consists of quite a few miniatures, although mostly too few in each unit to make up useful battalions/squadrons in the new basing scheme. The skirmishers are of course easy to do as they are. Im hoping to add the necessary figures sometime in the future, so maybe more to come there further down the road. In particular, Id be looking to paint a jäger battalion in the style of these chaps.
These French dragoons just happened to be very nice figures which I really enjoyed painting. I think there are a few more of them somewhere, including a horse holder with a couple of horses. Most of that stuff is packed deep down into boxes since we moved house about a year ago though. I do have some more Napoleonic French, but not more than a single battalion’s worth of infantry and some officers. Itd be great to paint up some more to make at least a brigade. I have a lot of left-over French figures I could use for that…
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