AHPC15 - Retreat from Moscow - French Cavalry Mixed unit no1

Perry Miniatures make a few packs of French and Allied Cavalry in various winter clothing, both uniform and non-uniform. I have bought these packs, which are still in the lead mountain of shame. So with my brain in overdrive I've searched every company I can think of who sell 25-28mm French Napoleonics Cavalry for figures with either greatcoats and or wet weather gear on.

There are NOT a lot, Front Rank to a few mounted command figures and that's about it really, So what to do????

Then I found these chaps, from Empress Miniatures Gwalior, Afghanistan, Punjaub and Scinde. range. Thinking " I might be able to uses these?", although they did break my heart and my wallet. £28.50 for 6 figures!!!

Originally I was going to use these figures as command models, but not now, although some may find their way into doing so????  Empress do sell more figures like these bad boys, that might have to join the collection at a later date???

As you know the Retreat from Moscow was a little haphazard. I've chosen not to have any formed units as such, I'm going for mixed adhoc units, made up from different regts. These figures can be mixed in with the Perry figures previously mentioned. The French cavalry lost many, many horses on the retreat, I expect most were slaughtered for their meat, or just died from the cold, so a lot of cavalry fought on foot, for this and many other reasons. Making them mixed units makes sense to me?

In the front row we have figures all from Empress representing the 2nd Cuirassiers, 4th Chasseurs and the 11th Hussars.

The two figures representing the 2nd Cuirassiers were originally going to be the Wuttemburg 1st Chevau Legere, as the helmet kind of match theirs, minus a plume, but after painting them, I found further info saying that the helmet changed to another kind in 1807, oh !!!!!!. So they became the 2nd Cuirassiers instead!

At the back we have figures from 10th Cuirassiers, the 4th Chasseurs and the 30th Dragoons. The two figures on the right are both the bravest of the brave, wearing no winter coats!! and are plastic figures from Victrix, (I think)

The Officer is a figure from Casting Room Miniatures, that I bought for my Haitian Revolution project that didn't get used,. Pack FN530

My favorite figure in the 11th Hussar, front row on the right, wearing a Father Christmas coat, firing his pistol over his shoulder.

Horses arse!

These poor souls all had their heads chopped off and replaced with a more suitable Napoleonic head apart from the commander on the left who's now wearing a nice warm and furry cloak.

As to the points...

9 x Mounted 25mm figures @ 10 pts each, gives me a total of 90, plus anything that Teemu gives me for the conversion work?

AHPC12 - Donnybrook - Polish High Command

My very last post for Challenge XII and not a badger or sandbag in sight!

A big thank you has got to go to Curt, Sarah and all the excellent minions, especially Greg, the Wednesday Minion. And a big congrats to all my fellow Challengers for helping pull me along during the challenge with all your works of art and comments.

Thank you everyone!

For my last post I have a selection of Polish High Command figures.

All based up on 50mm round bases.

Both these figures are from The Assault Group and come from the Janusz "the black" Radziwill, Grand Hetman of Lithuanian, pack

The flag comes from the website of Alex Pil, which for some reason I can't find anymore???

They shall be used as the Hero and Standard Bearer in Donnybrook.

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They both painted up pretty easily and cleaned up very nice, unlike the infantry.

Rear shot

One last pic!

Of both of them.

Now the other 3 figures.

All are from Essex Miniatures

This Commander isn't really a commander, he's actually a Kettle Drummer minus the drums.

I thought he'd make a great looking commander and I think I'm right?

This isn't a commander either, he's a King!

King Wladyslaw IV 1595-1648 in fact.

So truthfully he's a little early, but he's still a great looking figure and fits in perfect.

My least favourite of all the command figures, but we can't all look good can we?

He's a Polish Mounted Colonel

And the rear of the year award goes to......

Two great horse on the left and middle, But the right hand horse doesn't really go with the rider, in my opinion? But that's all I had.

Also we have 3 foot leaders.

The first figure on the left is from the same pack as the 2 mounted TAG figures above.

The other 2 figures are from Essex Miniatures. These 3 will be spare leaders and/or will be command figures, if I ever get anything else painted up.

50pts for the 5 mounted figures

15 points for the 3 foot figures

Makes a total of 65 points.

AHPC 11 Donnybrook - Plymouth Colony Militia 1675

 

Back to Donnybrook, now there's a surprise!!! But this time we've crossed the pond to the early English Colonies in America.

I've used these Empress Miniatures English Civil War figures to represent the early colonists

in the America's. I bought these a few years ago at SELWG in Crystal Palace as I wanted some Militia types for King Philips War  and other fights around that time. This is the first time I've painted Empress Miniatures before and I've gotta say they are crackin' figures in both proportion and to paint up.

The unit is made up of various Infantry and dismounted Cavalry packs to try and make them look more individual.

The flag is a homemade one I drew on Paint, I've no clue what kind of flag the Militia would have used if at all? So I used the flag of St George. And of course they don't have to just be the Plymouth Militia, they could be any unit of the war. And of course they could be from the ECW, IF I ever want to do Donnybrook ECW???

There are 20 figures in the unit. These of course can be any Militia unit that fought during King Philip's War, not just the Plymouth Militia.

Which gives me 100 points to add to my total.