Wednesday 11 April 2012

Garde, Garde!

These are my Garde Chasseurs a Pied, which consists of the 1er and 2eme Regiments, each of 2 Battalions of 36 foot and 6 deployed skirmishers, and a small band of drums.  All photos very click-able.


The 1er (below) are led by General de Brigade Cambronne, he of the alleged “Merde!” incident at Waterloo (which I first read about in Zola’s “Les Miserables”, as a teenager).



The 2eme (below) are led by Général de Brigade Baron Pelet-Clozeau.



The two Brigades are led by General de Division Michel, who was killed, leading the attack of the Chasseurs a Pied at Waterloo.


All the foot figures are Victrix, and the mounted command Perry’s.  The foot were painted by 3-4 different painters (the majority by Shaun Duncan), although all were stained, detailed, varnished and based by me.  I painted a few foot, the officers and the Tambour Major and assembled drums (below).



Later, I plan to add additional stands with the earlier style of flags with the diamond design, and the later simpler flag used at Waterloo (for the 1st Regiment only; the second won’t have a flag). 

I’m currently working on the 2/1 Grenadiers a Pied and hope to finish those by the weekend.

8 comments:

  1. Excellent looking figures!!! great info too! Love the Tambour Major and drummers, very, very nice!

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  2. A great unit! Painting is very nice, and the drummers wonderful...

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  3. Exelent to see them this way in all their glory after the WIP shots!

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  4. Very impressively done, Sir! Best, Dean

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  5. A fine unit to grace any battlefield!!!

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  6. Thanks all. At one point I'm sure RTB was complaining that I had more battalions of Chasseurs than Napoleon did... ;-)

    Simon

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  7. Wonderful paniting and basing. Very impressed.

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  8. These guys are brilliant BRB.

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