Lamming Napoleonic Figures

A recent eBay arrival contained, among other things, around 20 Lamming Napoleonic foot and eight mounted figures. There were one of each of the foot figures and some duplicates among the mounted, which included four different types of horse.

This is a significant addition for me as I have never had sight of most of these figures - I have a couple of units (yet to be repainted) and a few odds and ends, mostly command figures.

The foot figures contain more of these (command figures), two four man artillery crews (RHA and French Foot), and a number of standard infantrymen.

The artillery crews do not quite include all the gunner figures which were produced. There is also one slightly intriguing figure, of which more anon. With this exception they are all from the first series Napoleonic Range (before Bill Lamming replaced them all with "heroic 25 mm" versions. While all the figures are very welcome additions, I am particularly struck by the mounted figures as I am not sure (without an all-day expedition into the loft) whether I actually have any of the first series cavalry already.

I will also need to do some further investigation into the horses, in case I can identify and/or find a list for those with visible codes - this may provide a further post.


BRITISH FIGURES

British Line Infantry BI 1,2 and 5 - advancing, officer and drummer

British Light Infantry BI 8 - advancing

Royal Fusilier Officer BI 10

Royal Horse Artillery BA 1, 3, 5, 6

Royal Scots Grey Officer BC 6

FRENCH FIGURES

French Line Elite Company FI 1

Imperial Guard Grenadiers FI 4, 6, 3 - officer, drummer and advancing

French Line Fusilier FI 8

French Line Foot Artillery FA 1, 3, 5 and 6

French Cuirassier Officer FC 8

Dutch or Polish Lancer FC 19

PRUSSIAN FIGURES

Prussian Line Infantry PI 3 - officer

Prussian Guard Grenadiers PI 5, 2 - officer and advancing

FIGURES - IDENTIFICATION NOT CONFIRMED

I have not been able to provide confirmed identification of these figures and any help with this would be gratefully received. In some cases I have a strong idea but don't yet have 100% certainty.

Mystery Prussian Line Infantry - PI 1?

French Hussar Elite in Busby FC 13; or FC 1 Chasseur a Cheval of the Guard? Or other? Horse is not necessarily a clue - haven't done any work on the horses so mounted at random

Possibly British Hussar BC 1

I have two further British Cavalry figures to photograph - British Lifeguards BC 3 and 8 - trooper and officer.

When I have done whatever I can on the identification of the horses (which may not, of course, have been the right ones to start with) I will add new photographs. I also hope to add individual posts for each of the figures in this post.

And next I will post something about the mystery Prussian Fusilier pictured above. I have been talking to the Hinton Spieler about this figure and I think it is fair to say we haven't reached a consensus on it, so I think Matthew will be also be posting about it there,

Douglas Spanish Infantry Grenadiers NP2

If you have been waiting years wondering how to paint those Douglas Spanish Grenadiers - your wish is my command

Rose Napoleonic project 2019: British Infantry

Line infantry - five battalions of them - two refurbished, three painted from scratch.

Half a battalion of heavily converted Highlanders from the Peter Goldsbrough collection. There is an officer to add who needs a repair to his sword arm.

Half a battalion of lightly converted Rifles, with their rather nice command element.

Rose Napoleonics project 2019:: Austrian Infantry

 Austrian German Line Infantry battalion converted to shakos.

Austrian German Grenadier converged battalion (with the line unit in shakos behind)

Austrian Hungarian infantry battalions - 3 converged Grenadier battalions at the front with two line battalions behind.

Small unit of Jagers (converted figures)

Rose Napoleonics project 2019:: French Army

The whole French army - in the blue trays - British army in red trays behind.

The whole army comprises:

3 battalions French Line Infantry
2 converged battalions French Carabiniers
5 battalions Guard Grenadiers, one painted as Dutch
1 battalion Bavarian Line Infantry
1/2 battalion Nassau Infantry (2 light companies, 1 company Grenadiers)

1 squadron Carabiniers
2 squadrons Cuirassiers
I squadron Dragoons
1 squadron Lancers
1 squadron Line Chasseurs a Cheval

3 guns and crews.
Gunners are Rose and I have given them 2 8 pdrs and 1 howitzer, all of which are Hinchliffe 20mm models.

Guard Grenadiers are of course grossly over represented, but as this is an army constructed out of what I've got and in particular from two main collections, one originally painted and the other originally unpainted figures, it hasn't been created to order.

In the end a good variety of troop types. The originally painted collection figures, which have just needed a small amount of refurbishment, are finished to a better standard than those I have painted from scratch, However, because of the stylised nature of the figures and in particular the two infantry poses, I think they look very good en masse.

Rose Napoleonics project 2019:: French Infantry

Carabiniers (with Line Infantry behind)

Line Infantry

Guard Grenadiers - as you can see a disproportionate  percentage of the whole, but probably representative of how many Grenadiers re probably sold by any Napoleonic range.

Bavarian infantry - not sure what the base figures are, possibly Austrians, the drummers and standard bearers must ne French Grenadier conversions, the mounted officer is again a Wellington, this time with an Austrian helmeted head.

Nassau infantry. After taking the picture I found another base of four light infantry. I think the base figures are French Carabiniers; again there is a converted hornist. Busbies for the Grenadiers may have come from Garde Chasseur a Cheval figures.

GHQ Guardsmen

I have posted this listing from the Walthers catalogue before and I am now indebted to Bob D from the States for sending me the following pictures of the sets of figures he has. The first five pictures show how the figures came in their boxes.

    

The remaining pictures show individual figures:

French infantry, showing separate heads and assembled:

French infantryman (firing) and Line Chasseur a Cheval:

Cavalry figure in three parts, showing the distinctive design and assembly:

And finally the underside of the bases, showing the stylised "G" marking.

There is also a photo of two boxes of ACW infantry:

I have some packs (Prussian Fusiliers, Grenadiers and Dragoons) of the GHQ Guardsmen 25mm SYW figures manufactured in the UK by New Hope Design. These were sold in small plastic bags with card headers, and separate compartments for bodies, heads and muskets.

I may post some pictures of these later if there is any interest.

Lamming Guard Chasseurs a Pied

Lamming didn't list any Chasseurs so these will be Grenadiers with a slightly different paint job. The pioneer/sapper is an S Range figure.

These figures came together with the SEGOM Dutch Grenadiers which can be seen here.

Unit Pictures - Douglas Napoleonic Spanish battalion

using NP1 and NP3 figures

Kirk Napoleonic British RiflemenN

Not 100% persuaded these were originally intended to be riflemen rather than just painted as them - though their bayonets are long enough to be sword bayonets.

I'm beginning to think Kirk may have been a little too much maligned - by me, among others - as while they definitely had some pretty awful figures others are perfectly acceptable.

Der Kriegspieler 187 Baden Infantry

I was slightly surprised by these being in shako rather than kasket, and the single breasted tunic is unlike any Baden uniform reference I have seen. I painted them as a generic German State infantry unit on campaign.

Alberken/Minifigs 20mm Swiss Battalion

Refurbishment of a fairly recent e-bay purchase, FN8 advancing fusiliers painted as Swiss, with the addition of officer and eagle bearer from the spares box.

Brunswick infantry: manufacturer to be confirmed

I'm not 100% sure of the maker of these figures so any confirmation would be welcome. The drummers and one of the officers are S Range, the other officer is Hinton Hunt - it is the rank and file who are a bit more mysterious. I also have some Brunswick Hussars (which I couldn't locate just now) which I remember as possibly being from the same manufacturer.

I have made other Brunswick figure posts today on the Lone S Ranger and the Hinton Hunter blogs.