1812 Workbench

Coming off the workbench are mainly French for the 1812 retreat with a few Russians too. I am over in York with the basing department this evening off to watch the Blues Brothers tribute so thought I might get soem shots before I take them over for the first stage of basing.

So firstly the Russians, these are hte first of my line infantry, two more started so a group of 8 almost complete.

I have a dozen French complete, real mix of figures, mainly these are Perry miniatures retreat from Moscow but I wanted to mix in a few more figures so I have a bunch of old Foundry French and a sprue of Warlord figures all in great coats. I like the mix.

I am using a real mix of colour schemes, I want these to look particularly scruffyand mixing the greatcoat colours and cloaks/bedding/blankets etc helps with that.

To add to the scruffy look I am also being careful to not add these in ranks onto the base.

I intend to add an officer to the base with the eagle, but still a couple more figures to finish before I have a battalion for Black Powder. One officer and one more trooper should do it.

I also finished off three command figures, the peasant with the Pistol will be a level one leader for a unit of Russian peasent skirmishers. The middle guy an officer to lead the French and the Seargent on the end a Level one for Frenhc skirmishers.

And here they all are together before I send them to York for basing.

So just a  few more to do and we can play without needing to pinch figures from Steve and Chris. A couple more French and Russians then I can make start on French Cavalry.