"New metal infantry on Perry site!" Topic

I confess I don't know much (anything?) about these units. I recall they may have been Spain, but I never found them in an order of battle facing the British.

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I'll have to browse through Knoetel to see if he has any info.

There are two more:

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and….

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I see a lot of conversion potential in these. Still looking for Perry-style figures for the Frankfurt Bn that faced the British at Talavera; and the two battalions of Dutch that served with them.

GdeP

Oh my! The Perry's have covered a small but largely ignored area from the Confederation. Thanks for this information. I must buy these. For those of us with Confederation, Lippe is a real problem. As you can see, distinctive uniform. Anhalt you can convert -- but this is great. Yes, you can use them in Spain. Not aware of any other campaigns but for those of us who collect Confederation that is not the point. We just love to build the bizarre units. Thanks again.

Nice. Maybe they'll do 1813 Baden at some point….

I hope this page from knoetel copies! I didn't do so well with the three above.

Are these troops represented by these in metal?

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Here are two more, from Anhal and Lippe:

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and another.

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GdeP

Here's a (very) old website of mine, but it may prove useful in this context.

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It is now tempting to redo this project in Perry figures.

to be honest I'd like to eventually do these too – but would prefer pre Bardin 1812 French first.

I am in the same boat with you, Gustav! Can't have enough French! I have a start on 22 "French" battalions of 36-38 figures – old Stadden 30mm figures – and only foreign units are 3rd Swiss; 4th Baden; Hessen Erb Prinz; 4th Polish and mix of 7th/9th Polish. Thats under 25%, and I'd like to keep that proportion.

I worked on 15mm Old Glory 7YW for years until late last year when I got 60 Victrix French in bicorns as a gift. They became my version of the 36th Line (flag the only designator, plus an invented drummer uniform of buff, purple facings, edged aurora!). Now have another set of 60 to do, so need to decide which Pennsular French battalion to do.

These metal figures have an appeal for conversion to Dutch, maybe Frankfurt with coat conversion. Perhaps center companies for 2nd Nassau.

The Schaumburg Lippe figures would be very useful with a head swap to do French sergeants and corporals – no epaulettes, but short swords and bayonets. But Perry already makes two types of French command troops with sergeants, drummer, eagle bearer, for units with grenadiers in bearskins, or shakos.

GdeP

Hello, Roly! I enjoyed your Kapiti Fusiliers site, and this segment, even before I ran across the Miniatures Page. Great to see that "old" entry again! (At 76, I enjoy "old" stuff!) I recall you did mosty Front Rank figures.

GdeP

Would these do for 1809 Hessians as well?

The most common appearance of the Hessians in Spain are as shown in 3c on this plate from Histofig (I hope it contacts!):

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Knoetel also shows them as such:

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The artillery are somethimes shown with "padded" shoulder boards with a round end – black or dark blue – edged red. Cane be made from French artillery with epaulettes cut down a bit.

These figures in bicorn would workif they are in shor-tailed coats. Might just choose to have them on the move in bicorns, with shakos in company wagons?

GdeP

to be honest I'd like to eventually do these too – but would prefer pre Bardin 1812 French first.

Try packs FN156 through FN163 (except FN161, which is a wagon):

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