"The Finnish War 1808-1809 in 28mm" Topic

Hi

I have decided to start up a small 28mm Napoleonic Skirmish project set during the Finnish War 1808-1809.

The Finnish War 1808-09, i.e. the war between Sweden and the Russian Empire was fought from february 1808 to september 1809. As a result of the war Sweden lost about a third of its territorie and a quarter of its population…

My first goal for this project are to preper terrain (much of my 15th centery terrain will be re-used) and paint 10-15 minis for each side to be able to play out some small skirmish games during the Swedish retreat in april and may 1808, and then we will see…

I´ll have a short historical background at my blog and will add more about minis and rules in the following posts.

Best regards Michael

Perhaps my club's site can be of assistance to you.
There's plenty of info under the dropdown menu.

link

Good luck with the project!

:)

Your exellent club site have already been to greate help and will continue to be:)

Best regards Michael

@Lonkka1Actual Fantastic site, very informative and great looking terrain and figures, very inspiring!

@Dalauppror great website and great start to the Finnish War lookign forward to reading more.

To both of you, many thanks for sharing with us all on TMP, it has been a pleasure reading your blogs / sites!

Fascinating read. Interesting to speculate if a landing of British troops were allowed on Swedish soil.

Look forward to reading more.

Cheers,

Thanks !

No landing of British troops on Swedish soil were allowed by King. More and his troops sailed away again, for Portugal if I remember right.

But the Swedish had good help of the British Navy in the Baltic Sea during the War and managed to keep greater part of the Russian fleet in harbor

best regards Michael

Sorry no pictures of minis yet, but I have put some pictures up at my blog about how I built me some houses for my Finish War setting and of course a brief history of the Falu Red Paint…

Best regards Michael

Hi

I just added some WIP pictures of the first Russians for my Finnish War Project at my blog.

Best regards Michael

The first 5 Russian Jaegers are finished

more pictures at my blog

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I have finished Some more Russian jaegers.

one more picture at my blog

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Hi

I hope that you all have nice weekend !

I have just posted some pictures at my blog of the first test minis for the Swedish infantry to my Finnish War 1808-1809 Project.

Here are a picture of how they should look like.

Best regards Michael

Here comes a picture of two finished Swedish infantry soldiers from the Nyland Regiment.

You can find more pictures of them at my blog as well as a short introduction of how they was built.

Best regards Michael

Great work Michael – wish I had the patience and ability to pull off something like that.

Thank you Gustav !

Here are some pictures of a couple of builds of Swedish infantry, some more at the blog.

Best regards Michael

IF I have the strenth and endurance my plan for Sharps Practice are to build the 2nd Batallion of the Nyland Regiment. a Swedish battalion was approximately 600 men in 4 companys, each company was subdivided in 2 platoons. Each battalion did also have 2 Jaeger platoons. My aim are to have 12 minis in each company, i.e. 6 in each platoon and of course some extra minis for the Officers/Big Men… 60-70 minis…might be possible…

Anyway, here are a pictures of the 1st Platoon of the 5th Company "Helsinge Company". You can find some more pictures of the first group of Swedish infantry for my Finnish War 1808-1809 project at my blog

Best regards Michael

6 more Swedes for my Finnish War 1808-1809 Project, 5 infantry men and an Officer..

I just posted some pictures of the finished 2nd Platoon, 5th Company "Helsinge Company", 2nd Batallion, Nyland Infantry regiment for my Finnish War 1808-1809 project.

Here are a WIP pictures, the finished unit you will find here:

Have a nice weekend !

Best regards Michael

The all out Swedish hero during the Finnish War must have been George Carl von Döbeln, of course we have few more aspire to the title, like J.A. Sandels.

For me von Döbeln is a perfect character as he was in command of the Nyland Regiment during the first 3-4 month of the war.

Here comes some pictures of my build of von Döbeln, you can find pictured of the painted mini i and a short re-cap of von Döbelns history at my blog.

and the Drawing by Albert Edelfelt that inspired me.

best regards Michael

Sorry for the Zombie topic, but I had some small progress in this project to during the summer….

Built me some Nyland dragoons, more pictures of the builds and Also the painted ones at My blog.

Best regards Michael