"Perry Dismounted Dragoons! Need Sugestions." Topic

Hello everyone
Need the help of my fellow gamers if you can. I have roughly 80 Perry miniature's dismounted dragoons that I have to find a use for. I would like to ask if anyone has any ideas on what they could be converted into. I have Perry, French, British, Prussian, Austrian and Russian Infantry boxes. Victrix British artillery, and French 1805 infantry. All the French Cavalry sets as well as British Hussars. So I have lots of spare pieces, just need some suggestions. Any ideas on what they could be converted into would be greatly appreciated. Thanks. Cheers! Joe

Here is an example of one figure I converted into a dismounted carbineer trooper. But I need all the help I can get in finding other ideas for the rest. Thanks again. Joe link

Why convert them at all? Dragoons often fought dismounted in skirmishes in the Peninsula.

They can be converted to Swedish infantry 1808, using Victrix loose heads:

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I used all my spares to make dismounted Dragoons for AWI

I made them into horse artillery for the East India Company during the Sikh War. I also converted them into Sikh Dragoons.

That Carabinier is absolutely ingenious. The bare head and helmet in hand is inspired.

The Swedes disprove my notion that the potential of these figures is limited by heavy cavalry boots. Great ideas both

Two suggestions;

Easy one. Use a French hussar's shako head and he makes a great driver of artillery for the guard. Give him a light cavalry sabre, shortened slightly. Cut off the musket carried in the right hand, drill a hole and give him an artillery bucket. He'll add variety and colour to any Guard artillery unit.

More complex and my favourite (but that Carabinier is brilliant). Buy a nice bottle of Rioja (with the brass wire cage). Drink the contents but save the brass wire, ready twisted and to scale, for aigulettes (superglue and microdrill to fit). Use a bearskin elite dragoon head and saw off the head side, preserving the bearskin. Reverse on a helmeted dragoon. Saw off the helmet "skull" but preserve the head and the peak (easier than it sounds). Stuck together you have a peaked bearskin. Convert jacket to a surtout (remove lapels and make single breasted). You have a Gendarme d'Elite! To individualise, again chop off the rifle at the carry and swap it for a sword in scabbard (cut in half, remove a handwidth section and glue on)

I do hope we hear more here. I am thinking about 2nd Eclaireurs of Guard in plastic from various Perry's , but may settle for the Carlist War early Poles, heavily modified, on new horses.

Wonderful ideas! I must get some of that Rioja "stuff," and use the cords!

Simple conversion: Spanish Madrid Dragoons as shown in osprey series in the Peninsula. Just use a French shako head.

A little more complicated, the French Guard Horse Grenadiers wore this jacket at Waterloo. Bearskin with no plate, cords or plume. Musket and arms from a Victrix infantry set. No aiguelettes for Velites of the Guard, but could add for the veteran "Big Heels."

I just wish they were the earlier French with long-tailed "v" notched habit. I would do 4 dismounted for every one of my (current) 8 mounted "squadrons" of 6 each.

GdeP

I made them into horse artillery for the East India Company during the Sikh War. I also converted them into Sikh Dragoons.

Pictor, can you post pictures of these?

Hi. I would buy them or it you want to trade them for other 28mm figs i have a lot of extra figs Foundry Perry and others. Barry ultimatewargamer@hotmail.com