"Perrys yes, napoleonic no, or not yet anyway" Topic

Now I know that the UK War of Intervention is not everybody's "cup of tea", but there is a massive literary following for "What if?" history…………confess I am a great fan and have read everything Harry Turtledove wrote on the alternative ACW……….right up the Confederate use of nuclear weapons in the 1940s.

Now, Perrys have just expanded their range to include cavalry and some of you may see a real potential for conversion here. For once, we have a single breasted, waist length jacket, no lapels with full length overalls. (Perrys' plastic ACW cavalry were almost as ideal for Napoleonics). Just swop heads, add the tails and turnbacks from Greenstuff, but accept you have a very "British" arrangement of kit, waterbottle etc. You could just stick Garde lancers heads on these for the stable jacket look. Just for novelty……..

I tried to make the 2e Eclaireurs from Chasseurs a Chev. and Carlist lancers, with Hussar shakos, some time ago (see below). Early work and the green is not that vivid in reality I promise you. These would have been far easier to convert from the new stuff.

Perrys do this all the time of course!

I scratch built three Gendarmes d'Elite, I struggled to grind metal to make the Scouts, I handmade cloaks and chopped heads, to convert Russian dragoons into Garde lancers in their manteaux and what do they then announce, one after another, they have been working on all along, but not told us, that could have saved me all the work (and proved far better)? But do I moan…….?

Your figures look great. It takes some skill to do what you did.

I like the Perry's new figures, but I will have to wait until next year.

Still, beautifully done, including your inspiring basing.

Nicely done. But watch the British figures for conversions. The water bottle and haversack under the left arm are quite unique.

Great conversations and great painting

Nice work all the way around.

Fantastic job again!

Can I just say a thank you, with an apology?

I did not want you to think how clever I was, I wanted to show how these new Perry figures could be converted and be so much better than my efforts (seriously).

Again, I will beg you to believe me that my photography was at fault here. The colours are horrific….it was the lighting, the white balance, the saturation…the green is not like this in daylight I promise you…..

Artilleryman, you are so right. But some Greenstuff could be added, shapes changed…you are still right……this is nearer Scots Greys outfit I know…..but it is the first single breasted jacket, easily converted to Napoleonic Era.

The Hussars are not for us, as full skirts. Funny thing….they are said to have "pre Crimean War" head gear though (I thought that was 1854 ish, not 10 years later……….)

God bless the Perrys tho'