3e Chevau Leger Lancers 3rd Sqaudron

 The final Sqaudron for the 3rd Chevau Leger Lancers. Again warlord miniatures, this time armed with swords and carbines. 

Cheers

Matt

3e Chevau Leger Lancers 2nd Sqaudron

 The next Sqaudron for my Lancer Regiment, all armed with lance. Again Warlord Games miniatures

Cheers

Matt

Plans and Goals for 2025

2025 goals and plans 

I have a few big goals and lots of plans in sand. I main focus is in two main directions this year Napoleonics and WW2. I really want to complete my French guard cavalry (all front rank), add more Prussians and then in 20mm, American Armour, infantry and Airborne units. Germans units this year will be more units for Normandy and then bits for the Berlin project. Another big goal is to complete my 28mm HYW collection, I need to concentrate on completing the Scots and a few more English foot and mounted. Then my Cold War kit additions the Russian naval infantry division is close to complete, then I would like to add a Russian motorised brigade too, then for opposition BAOR units, the six day war will also get further additions. The other stuff is all ready to be worked on as the mood grabs me. 

Purchases on the horizon French guard foot, Front Rank, 10 Mamelukes guard Gringo 40s, Prussian Landwehr cavalry, Austrian 1805 Dragoons and Cuirassiers Perry for my Napoleonic collection, then some more 20mm Waffen SS AB and PlanaMayor for a autumn camo unit. 

My plan is for the next three months concentrate on my French Guard cavalry, 20mm Americans and the British Army Waterloo project 1/72 Cuirassiers during the analogue painting challenge. 

28mm Napoleonic 

Complete my French Guard Cavalry (96 cav)(front rank)

Complete 4 battalions to French Line in greatcoat (warlord) 1812-14 (156 foot)

Complete  2 regiments of (warlord) Lancers 1812-14 (36)

Complete Baden foot infantry regiments x 6 (200 foot) (Skytrex-Warlord)

Complete two regiments of Prussian Hussars (36 figs) 

Complete two line battalions Prussian foot (72 figs)

28mm Other

Additions 13th century collection 40 cavalry, 60 foot (Mirliton, wargames Atlantic, Fireforge, Gripping beast)

Additions my French 1488 Mad War Ordonance army 60 foot, 20 horse, 2 guns. (perry)

HYW Scot’s 60 foot and 12 mounted (Perry)

HYW English 20 cavalry, 30 foot (Perry)

5th century Greek 80 foot (immortal-Warlord)

80 Thracian foot, 12 cavalry  (Foundry)

20mm Napoleonic 

120 French Cuirassiers for the British Army Waterloo Project 

20mm ww2

82nd airborne division 

210 foot, 6 artillery and 18 vehicles, 4 x 1/72 gliders (AB, Alder and Simons soldiers, heller, italeri, airfix SHQ)

US 5th Armoured 

30 tanks, 90 foot, 4 guns and 12 halftracks, 12 trucks and other vehicles (heller, italeri, AB, Simons Soldiers, Alder)

90th infantry division 

70 foot, 21 vehicles (AB, Alder and Simons Soldiers)

US landing craft x 12 various sizes marked up for Omaha. (Airfix and italeri) 

17th SS 

4 x StuGs, 4 x JGD IVL,  60 infantry, 12 vehicles (PSC, italeri, Plana mayor, Battlefeild, FAA)

101 panzer ersatz training battalion 1 pz iii, 2 x H39, 2 x R35, 10 infantry, (heller, first to fight, Battlefeild) 

Panzer Lehr 

15 tanks, 26 vehicles, 60 infantry, 4 guns, 4 x Flak guns.(elhiem, Simons soldiers, PSC, Airfix, Italeri, hasegawa) 

British airborne 

5 gliders with correct markings for operation Tonga. 1 Hamilcar glider (airfix, italeri, planet models) 

20mm Cold War 

67 War Israeli 

7 tanks, 5 half tracks, 60 infantry, 3 jets, 1 helicopter (heller, italeri, dragon, hasegawa, airfix, cpl overby)

67 war Egyptian 9 tanks, 5 APCs, 2 jets

Cold War Russian 

Naval infantry 12 APCs, 3 t55 6 other vehicles, 60 figures, landing craft x 3, 1 helicopter (Britannia, Ammo, elhiem, italeri, S&S models)

Motorised Russian infantry x 60, 12 APCs, two Sam launchers  (elhiem, sSmodels, Armo)

British Cold War 

6 tanks, 8 APCs 60 infantry, helicopter, 2 jets. (Dragon, 3d prints, elhiem, Airfix, platoon 20)

That should keep me busy

Cheers

Matt

Happy New Year

 Happy New Year 2025

Happy new year chaps, I gave quite a list this year. Planning on focusing on Napoleonic and ww2, with gusts of coldwar, medieval and ancients, an odd ww1 piece and a bit of Star Wars. 

All the best to everyone 

Cheers

Matt

 3e Chevau Leger Lancers 1812-15 1st Squadron 

After visiting five of the 1814 battlefields this year in spring in the champagne district. I have decided to add lancers to my French army collection, the options are wide however I elected to purchase 4 boxes the warlord figures and a few sprues at the sales last year and finally got around to assembling them all in the last 6 weeks. After purchasing more sprues in the last Black Friday sale to make up three sqaudrons in each regiment that I intend to paint. The warlord horses are a bit of a worry with puddle type feet rather than a whole base and the metal horse is particularly week at the hocks as the metal is really soft, I needed to pin the officers horse in three places on all the command horses in the four boxes, another gripe is the lances I would of preferred no pennant on them and not enough vertical lances in the boxes and soft sculpting on the turnbacks flaps and portmanteau. For the elite company I added plumes from the plastic Victrix Bavarian infantry set, as a simple solution. 

With the units organisation  I commenced with the thought of the 1814 battles predominantly. The 3rd regiment of Chevau Leger Lancers served in a number of battles from 1812-15. An added bonus was pink facings that always look great contrasted against the green of the uniform. I am undecided upon the next regiment I am thinking either 5th with light blue or the 6th with its buff belts red combs and red facings. 

I am very happy though with the result and they paint up quickly. As always I commence with the horses, I have elected to have the dark bay, light bay and chesnut sqaudrons, in reality in 1814 I doubt much uniformity of horseflesh existed. The horses for the first regiment were completed by the end of November, the riders however sat to one side of my painting desk as I was renovating the house completing another bathroom on the third floor. With the commencement of the XV Analogue Painting Challenge I picked them up with intention of completing them as the first entry. 

Regiment history 

Created in 1811 from the 8th dragoons. The regiment retained one of the 1804 model eagles of the 8th dragoons and the standard, until 1812 they had a standard with the battle honours of  Ulm, Austerlitz, Jena and Eylau, the standard and Eagle were lost at Beresina (although conjecture surrounds some eagles being thrown into the river). A new 1812 model eagle and standard were issued for the 1813 campaign, using the 1812 pattern flag and served until surrender in 1814. The regiment was renamed with the restoration the Dauphin regiment, then with napoleons return in 1815 the regiment returned to regiment 3, receiving the 1815 model standard and its old 1812 eagle. After 1812 they did not carry the eagle into the field.

Colonels

1811: Baron Lebrun (Alexandre-Louis-Jules) (died of wounds 26th October 1812)
1813: Hatry (Charles-Joseph)(killed 14th October 1813 at Liebertwolkwitz)
1814: d'Hautefeuille (Eugene-Gabriel-Louis-Texier)
1815: Martique (Charles-Francois)

Battles 

1812: Polotsk and La Beresina 
1813: Bautzen, Reichenbach, Dresden, Leipzig, and Hanau 
1814: Champaubert, Vauchamps, and Troyes 
1815: Ligny and Waterloo

Battle Honours Polotsk 1812, Bautzen 1813, Dresden 1813 and Champaubert 1814

Cheers

Matt

Greek skirmishers

 Greek skirmishers, these figures are First Corps which are lovely figures, although getting long in the tooth they are one of their best ranges. Again LBMS decals 

Cheers

Matt