Tuesday 30 July 2013

The Emperor's cherished daughters


I've just completed my first unit of Napoleonic artillery; a pair of 12 pounders of La Garde.


I felt that the Perry crew of 4 was somewhat meagre, so added a couple of Foundry gunners and a couple of Perry/Victrix plastic hybrid figures, for variety.  The other figures also had greatcoats which ties in with the look of the army I am slowly building for early 1814.  The buckets are conversions, and the ammo boxes are from Front Rank.

Basing posed a bit of a dilemma.  I had wanted them on a 45mm frontage, to match the base size of my infantry, but found that 60mm was the bare minimum width for the gunners to be positioned around the guns in a broadly historical manner.  I could be tempted to go even wider...

8 comments:

  1. These look great. I love the fact all the divergent makes fit in.

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  2. Fantastic work, Simon. As with all your work, museum quality. Best, Dean

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  3. Beautiful. They will open holes in your enemy's ranks
    Rafa

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  4. A beautiful work on these units, basing is excellent!!

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  5. Thanks chaps. Hope to add a couple more guns in the autumn...

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  6. They have a real "on the job" look to them. Superb!
    Cheers
    Ths

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