As many readers will know, Russian officers in the early Napoleonic period seem to have worn bicornes (and they continued to do so to some extent until the end of the wars). However, after 1805, officers were allowed to wear a shako, and at least by 1807 there was a distinctive officer’s shako with anContinue reading “Russian officers in shako”
Category Archives: Russian
Russian artillery and skirmishers
Cracking on with the last few pieces which I still need to round out a division of 1808 Russians. The artillery is a mix of Perry and Warlord Games figures; the artillery pieces are Perry and Elite miniatures (I think?). The Elite and Perry 6-pounders look very similar, and as I happened to have enoughContinue reading “Russian artillery and skirmishers”
Russian artillery limber
A small step for the Russian 1808 collection. In fact, even though this is just one piece, limbers are always some of the most labor-intensive models that you would do for Napoleonic figures. This 6-pounder limber is the third I have done, which means I have one limber team for each brigade, two 6-pounders andContinue reading “Russian artillery limber”
Skirmishers
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.Continue reading “Skirmishers”
Russian division 1808
As I have already mentioned in previous posts, I have been working on re-basing my Russians for the 1808 setting. This has included expanding some of the units, so that all line infantry is in 24 man units, and the jäger units of 16. I have now come as far as rebasing all of theContinue reading “Russian division 1808”
Russian progress
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.Continue reading “Russian progress”
Some Russian additions
With little painting time, I have at least finished some additional figures and guns for the Russian army of 1808. I have prepared many more. The primary goal is to be able to field a battery of two guns for each of the three brigades. Two of these will be 6-pounders, the third a 3-pounderContinue reading “Some Russian additions”
Swedish HQ
As most of you who are reading this will know, the Perry miniatures range of (very excellent) Swedish figures does not (yet :-)) include generals or colonels. I have converted various figures for this purpose previously, as can be seen in older posts. However, those have been single mounted figures, meant as brigade commanders. InContinue reading “Swedish HQ”
Russian orders of battle for the Finnish war of 1808 (sort of)
In a previous post, I have tried to provide details of the organization of the Swedish army in Finland as it was fielded in 1808. It would be natural to do the same for the Russian army. However, this is not quite as straightforward as one might expect. The brigade organization of the Swedish armyContinue reading “Russian orders of battle for the Finnish war of 1808 (sort of)”
Russian progress
After having painted quite a few Swedes/Finns for a while, I switched over to give the Russian army some TLC. I painted the very few figures that were still missing to complete the 3rd battalion, 3rd jäger regiment and the 1st battalion of the Petrovsk regt. These have been standing almost finished for much tooContinue reading “Russian progress”
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