AOE 20mm - Battle of Buçaco - French army finished with video and all!!

For months I left the 50éme de Ligne undone maybe cause I was afraid to finish one of the armies that gave me more joy to do: L'armée de Portugal of general Massena. This is its last regiment and the last 60 of a total of over 1000 figures built and painted in the last few years for this army. 

This regiment is a mix of Hat and Ykreol plastic figures.

The Tête de Colonne is an a Ykreol stand  and the figures are just great! 

Damn!! I forgot to erase the "6" from the flag and replace it with the "50". I will do it now as soon as I post this one. 

Hat grenadiers. 

Hat Voltigeurs. I couldn't find correct uniform info for the 50éme Voltigeurs so I hope this one is close. 

The Hat and Ykreol figures go very well with each other having a toy like look and seeming as being sculpted by the same hands. 

The direction these guys were looking at the end of the 27th September 1810...

And now a small video for you to see the full Massena's army for AOE in 20mm.

      http://youtu.be/9E-dslTMBLo

Pineapple Miniatures - 1/32nd scale - Mamelukes

First group of four Mamelukes from Italeri are already in Museu Militar do Buçaco. 

The Mamelukes were not in Buçaco of course but a detachment was on the peninsula and were used against the  Madrid riots on the 2 de Mayo as Goya portrait shows. 

On the back of picture you can see Sula, no, no, not the 2nd place for the battle of Buçaco but my dog. 

Detail of the Mamelukes. 

Pineapple miniatures 20mm - Waterloo lancers and individual minis -Buçaco 1810

New 20mm both boxes and individual hit the shelves of the Buçaco museum:

20 mm Portuguese and French grenadiers. 

Spanish (Talavera 1809) and French line. 

Polish Blue lancers for Waterloo 1815.

Dutch Red lancers for Waterloo 1815.

Next there will be more boxes for Waterloo as the 200th anniversary of this battle is closing by.

Pineapple Miniatures - first of the first - Brunswick Army, Quatre-Bras1815

How could I forget to take a picture of the 1st Pineapple of them all?

Of course! No one would think that Pineapple Miniature could reach the world wide prestige it holds now as number 1 product for sale at the Museu Militar do Buçaco! 

The first was a large box packed with 30 Brunswick miniatures - infantry, cavalry  and artillery - Esci transformed miniatures, including a figure of the Duke itself from Waterloo1815.

The flags are hand painted in paper. I remember using avıdly the excellent Osprey book on the subject for painting and scratch building my Brunswickers.

I found this rarity in Izmir, Turkey by puuuuure coincidence in OB house.

How was this possible? 😳

Pineapple Miniatures 1/35th scale - New figures for Portuguese flags,Buçaco1810

This is the second model you can change in the ACTA Belgian figures in order to have new Portuguese flag bearers.

 

To the right you have the original figure.

After a lot of X-Acto work you can take out the musket as you can see in the left figure. 

Then it's time to apply the heat of a lighter to bend the left arm into the desired position.

Finally use the drill (1,5mm)  to make holes in both hands. 

 

A thick broom thread heated also with a lighter, squashed at the end and cut to shape enters both hands and here you have a new figure.

These new ones will carry the military region flags (white, yellow or red field). 

As usual you can find the unique Pineapple Miniatures at the Buçaco Military Museum.

Pineapple Miniatures 1/35th scale - Leal Legião Lusitana, British 52nd light infantry, French infantry - Buçaco1810

ACTA Leal Legião Lusitana made from the British light infantry box. The flags are the generic Dom João VI era flags. 

ACTA 52nd LI (avenge General Moore ...!).

Hat French coated infantry (Voltigeurs and Grenadiers). 

All this at the usual place, Museu Militar do Buçaco. 

Pineapple Miniatures - 1/32nd scale - 95th Rifles, Buçaco 1810

Brand new from ACTA : the famous 95th Rifles, which fought around Sula Village at Buçaco 1810 against Ney corps.

If not for the tucked trousers and the bayonet in the rifle (hindering aiming) these miniatures portray nicely these famous soldiers. 

'Were can I find them?' is everybody asking, right? Buçaco Military Museum, as usual...

Pineapple Miniatures - 1/32nd scale Portuguese artillery - Buçaco 1810

Latest additions for the Buçaco museum:

The ACTA 9 pdr gun manned by four ACTA crew. 

Originally these figures are Waterloo British, but with a few carved out details and some putty they become Portuguese artillery for the 1810 campaign. 

Pineapple Miniatures - 1/32nd scale conversions for the LLL and theBritish Line infantry

This post is about some changes I made on the A Call To Arms (ACTA) Belgian infantry equipped with the Belgian Shako (based historically on the Portuguese Barretina) in order to produce Stovepipe equipped infantry.

This happened because I quitted waiting for the ACTA British Light Infantry, equipped with the Stovepipe, from my normal supplier.

The Belgian Shako had the cords taken out with a X-Acto and GreenStuff was modelled to the back part of the Shako and a pompon was placed in the front.

The Loyal Lusitanian Legion was a unit present at Buçaco that used the Stovepipe as it had been equipped in England.

Here they are with the correct headdress.

 The ones I painted before were wrong and the best I could do was to paint an old model of Barretina used in 1808.

Using the same changes you can also produce the British line infantry as these 88th Connaught Rangers. 

The only few other small extras are the woolen shoulders also made in GreenStuff.

Pineapple Miniatures - 1/32nd scale Portuguese and French cavalry

Pineapple is now riding 1/32nd scale horses. Portuguese cavalry are A Call to Arms Life Guards conversions. The helmet is not absolutely accurate even after some GreenStuff applied.

The French are again A Call to Arms. This  time straight out of the box Dragoons for the 26th regiment.

Also a few more 1/72nd scale boxes:

Also painted is another group of 30 individual 1/72nd scale miniatures, Scottish and French line infantry.

French line infantry, Buçaco 1810.

79th line (Scottish) infantry, Buçaco 1810.

All These can be found as usual at the Buçaco Military Museum.

Pineapple Miniatures, 1/32nd scale, Batalhão Académico 1809

Last figures from the painting station:

The Batalhão Académico was formed from students of the Coimbra University and distinguished it self on the conquest of the fort of Santa Catarina in Figueira da Foz and the combat of Pombal during the 1st and 2nd Napoleonic invasions.

The Batalhão was formed of 6 infantry companies, one company of cavalry and another group of artillery. I don't know nothing both on this unit cavalry and artillery uniforms. Any help?

Look, a new Pineapple breed is born ...

 

The one who guesses 

1. brands (there are three)

2. scale ...

...gets one PAINTED for  free!!!

If you look closely there are some hints to help you...

   And here they are at the Buçaco  Museum itself. From this perspective you have more hints to help you find the solutions. 

  And you better rush as the miniatures to offer are only a few hundred. Now to the many who asked (as you can see in Comments): someone who answers correctly will have to come here at this basement to collect his miniature.

Pineapple Miniatures, 1/32nd scale 6pdr cannon and flags, Bussaco 1810

Latest from Pineapple:  6pdr portuguese cannon.

And a few more...

Portuguese infantry flag (bandeira esquartelada):

and company....

If you want some of these rush quickly to the Military Museum of Bussaco, before they are sold out. And remember only there you can find these exquisite models. Other parts of the world are completely "depineappled".

Pineapple Miniatures, 1/32nd scale Massena's grenadiers

Latest additions from  left to right: Légion Hanovrienne; Carabiners of the light infantry and Légion du Midi grenadiers.

The light infantry boots shouldn't exist in the two foreign units  but these figures were made out from the Hat box of French Light Infantry Carabiniers. Also the plates in the bearskin headdress are just painted. 

Pineapple Miniatures; 1/32nd scale LLL and Portuguese infantry

The Loyal Lusitanian Legion:

More 21st Portuguese infantry regiment :

Another  batch ready  for the Buçaco Military Museum. 

Pineapple Miniatures; 4th batch of miniatures, 1/32nd French officersand specials- Buçaco 1810

Latest models for sale in the Buçaco Military Museum:

All Hat 1/32nd scale. These are Eagle bearers made from NCOs with Victrix flags and hand made parts.

Carabiniers officers.

Voltigeur officers of light infantry regiments.

Voltigeurs of light infantry regiments.

Carabiniers of the Irish regiment.

Light infantry officers.