 deadhead  | 07 Nov 2016 9:49 a.m. PST |
Not sure if these pictures of the Gringo40s Engineers and Sailors of the Guard have been shown here before. I have just ordered both units and want to have a go at some diorama of the taking and clearing of the Bridge. Nice modelling and finishing gone into these, do not know if I can compete!
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| wrgmr1 | 07 Nov 2016 10:06 a.m. PST |
Wow, looks like quite the project. Please keep us apprised of your progress. |
| HP2Sport | 07 Nov 2016 11:31 a.m. PST |
Lovely figures. Do wish Gringos would do some basic French line infantry to the same standard. |
jammy four  | 07 Nov 2016 4:56 p.m. PST |
Hp2sport…………..some wishes do come true!! nice post Deadhead…………. regards
gringo40s.com |
| HP2Sport | 07 Nov 2016 11:03 p.m. PST |
Hurrah!! Good news. 1812 uniform or pre1812? |
| Gunner Dunbar | 08 Nov 2016 2:08 a.m. PST |
Nice dio, I think I will do a plastic conversion of some of these for my sharp collection, I have some of these marines already, so good to go. |
| C M DODSON | 08 Nov 2016 2:14 a.m. PST |
Very nice figures, superb painting and a really nice choice of diorama. Chris |
| deadhead | 08 Nov 2016 2:21 a.m. PST |
Plastic conversion obviously dead easy. Grenadiers of Guard with Perry Carabinier heads basically. I was just about to say Gringos40, like Westfalia is known for doing the obscure stuff and does not pay any attention to commercialism….by producing French infantry in what I call "March attack" (wrongly I now know)……….and then selling thousands. |
| deadhead | 08 Nov 2016 2:28 a.m. PST |
Of course, on the bridge, both units were in campaign rig, probably with overcoats as well, and you can bet not a helmet in sight! But that is too realistic. We want a bit of spectacle…. |
| jammy four | 08 Nov 2016 2:42 a.m. PST |
HPSSport and Deadhead the French ligne and Legere
will be a misture of pre and post bardin with many
new variants………….. cheers
Ged
gringo40s.com
ps Deadhead the Engineers as the Old Guard company were
seen in full dress ….the bridge was taken without casualities by them having been "taken" by Pajols 1st hussars at the gallop after some dismounted skirmishing. |
| deadhead | 08 Nov 2016 3:43 a.m. PST |
Good news then. No fallen figures needed and full dress suggested.
The action itself is very poorly recorded. Siborne and Adkin both briefly suggest the hussars were stopped (only reasonable if the bridge was barricaded) and the Guards stepped in to open the bridge. He who must not be named has recorded all the early hours of the Campaign in exhaustive (-ing) detail but, for this, just says that, by 11 am Charleroi was in French hands. In dozens of books on the campaign I am hard put to find anything about the event, other than that wonderful print. Ah ha…Tim Clayton's recent book has a whole chapter on the fall of Charleroi. He also says cavalry were halted, but seems to suggest that the clearing of the bridge by seamen and Genie was largely unopposed, as the Prussians had scarpered. |
| cavalry47 | 08 Nov 2016 10:35 a.m. PST |
Ged Hp2sport…………..some wishes do come true!! What about shrinking size again 40mm>28mm>18mm I would love your Marines and Engineers of the Guard in18mm Christian |
| HP2Sport | 08 Nov 2016 12:52 p.m. PST |
Will be looking forward to getting some of the line infantry when released. You can never have too many French! |
| jammy four | 08 Nov 2016 6:29 p.m. PST |
cavalry47 Christian now that's an idea………….
I have just commissioned a 10mm mounted
figure "just out of interest" so 15/18mm
would not be to great a stretch… HP2Sport
your quite right ..the French army of 1796-1815
still thrills!! regards
Ged
gringo40s.com |
| jammy four | 08 Nov 2016 6:32 p.m. PST |
Deadhead Paul Dawsons book on the French at Waterloo
has a great section on Charleroi and an even
better on on Gennape…….
the French cavalry ran riot…(for a while!) cheers
Ged
gringo40s.com |
| Marc at work | 10 Nov 2016 6:57 a.m. PST |
Forget ten mil – 1/72 is where the best figures are (ducks for cover) Seriously, there is some excellent work being done on the continent with 1/72 so if you wanted to expand… |
| deadhead | 10 Nov 2016 7:27 a.m. PST |
Some of the best animations and the best proportioned figures are indeed in 1/72. The charging Netherlands Carabiniers, posed from that oft seen painting, I will not forget as a prime example. The Germans especially are just brilliant at creating huge dioramas in this scale. |
| jammy four | 10 Nov 2016 5:36 p.m. PST |
Marc at Work 20mm is indeed a great scale but I will probably
stick to 28mm at the moment!!
cheers
Ged
gringo40s.com
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| Marc at work | 11 Nov 2016 6:39 a.m. PST |
I know that the full dress is a really colourful uniform, but did they ever take to the field in it? The marines that is (yeah, I know, "Sailors" – so sue me, I grew up with Minifigs ok). |
| deadhead | 11 Nov 2016 10:32 a.m. PST |
They would have been daft to do so…… their uniform was particularly ornate and impractical too. Even their simpler campaign rig was still highly distinctive and different, but I will take any excuse to paint aurore lace (top picture captures it perfectly I feel) |
returns to Flintloque to paint an Ogre.
