6th Chevau-leger Lancers 2nd Squadron

 6th Chevau-Leger Lancers 2nd Squadron 

Next squadron completed for the lancer regiment, I have elected to mount them on bays although by 1813 I suspect horses were in short supply. Next up the command Sqaudron 

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Matt

6th Chevau-leger Lancers 3rd Sqaudron

6th Chevau-Leger Lancers 3rd Sqaudron

When Warlord recently had their Black Friday sale back a few months ago I could not resist and I purchased a 4 boxes of Lancers plus a few sprues from the sprue sale. I have organised these for General de Brigade/d’Armee and In the Grand Manner. I settled on three six figure Sqaudrons so per regiment. The 6th chevau-leger lancers uniform is quite striking, red pantaloons, and buff belts and gloves

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Matt

Roman Sagittari

 

 Roman Eastern Sagittarii

5 figures to add to the Roman Imperial Army, a mix of Warlord Games miniatures based for Impetus. 

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Matt

Roman Auxillia and Legate

 A skirmish unit that I completed for the analogue painting challenge. I will sell these as I am only using foundry now for my Imperial Roman’s.

Figures are a mix of plastic Warlord Games and metal Foundry. The vexillum, Cornu and are foundry, the optio centurion is Warlord metal the remainder are plastic warlord with LBM transfers. 

The legate is Warlord Games metal. 

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Matt

Stratigós, Achaean hoplites and skirmishers

 

Stratigós, Achaean hoplites and skirmishers 

More additions to the Greeks last week, my first command base, skirmishes and Achaean hoplites. Again miniatures from Immortal Miniatures now sold by Warlord Games. 

Hoplites 

Psiloi

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Matt 

5th Century Greeks part 5

 More Greeks off the table, again Immortal miniatures now sold by Warlord. VVV decals, again for the analogue painting challenge 

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Matt

5th Century Greeks part 4

 5th century Greeks part 4

Some more Greeks completed, miniatures from Immortal miniatures now sold by Warlord Games. Again another entry for the analogue painting challenge. 

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Matt

5th BC Greeks Part 3 infantry

 More Greeks off the table, I am slowly getting through them, again Immortal miniatures now sold by Warlord. I did mange to dame two spears one whilst basing, the other during flocking. I used VVV transfers and hand painted the designs on the shield cloth. These were completed for this years analogue painting challenge. 

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Matt

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. 

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Matt

3e Chevau Leger Lancers 2nd Sqaudron

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

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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

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Matt

5th BC Ancient Greeks part 1

 I have finally commenced my Immortal/Warlord Plastic Greeks over the last three weeks as a change up from Napoleonic cuirassiers. 

They are quite a simple paint jobs, based for Impetus, base colour, wash and one highlight.  I have used LBMS decals on these, but they are a little oversized (I am thinking perhaps they sent the wrong set) 

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Matt 

Judge Dredd - mixed mobster, mutants, robots and apes

 Judge Dredd - Mobsters, Mutants, Robots and Apes 

A few bits off the table in preparation of the Analogue Painting challenge commencing next week, some of these figs have been kicking around for a long time. I found more this week whilst looking for Napoleonic lancers! 

K7 - mongoose games 

Mutant - foundry 2000ad  range 

Zombie mistress mongoose publishing 

Mutant - Foundry 2000ad range 

Orangutan-  I think Foundry 

Big Al mobster - Warlord Games 

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Matt

Imperial Roman Praetorians

 Completed some Warlord Miniatures Praetorians for a commission in Australia.

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Matt