| Markconz | 19 Feb 2017 2:46 a.m. PST |
More late Empire troops, enjoy!
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 Jeff Ewing  | 19 Feb 2017 7:58 a.m. PST |
I learned something new today, thanks! |
 deadhead | 19 Feb 2017 9:42 a.m. PST |
Really clever. I love to see conversions. So what is the fate of the shako heads? I do hope that you do not regret instead cutting off with a fresh scalpel blade (I do have an access advantage there) as cutters can crush them at the neck. Were Marie Louises' even this well turned out? Ragged is the impression I get. Very imaginative whatever……. |
| Drocton | 19 Feb 2017 11:54 a.m. PST |
I think I have WG and Victrix pokalems/pokemons too, I would have liked to swap them in exchange for Young Guard Victrix heads for instance… are you still interested? |
| Markconz | 19 Feb 2017 8:55 p.m. PST |
Thanks all! I think these are very well turned out Marie Louises Liam, some even have an extra pair of shoes on their packs! Defacto Shako heads will be used for casualty markers (the shakos not the heads – I'm not that morbid! :)) @ Drocton, sorry I'm not after any extra heads, thanks for offer though. |
| deadhead | 20 Feb 2017 4:25 a.m. PST |
I do think the pokalem must take a prize as the ugliest and daftest piece of headwear ever. Earflaps OK, I will concede, but no peak. The Prussian version is almost worse as it seems a perfect cylinder, without the "pie-crust topping". I do like the bonnet de police, (however useless) provided not overdone. It can look like Thunderbirds crew puppetry. Presumably these ad hoc units would not have had the traditional flank companies or, if so, no chance to kit them out accordingly…as greater priorities? |
| Frederick | 20 Feb 2017 11:34 a.m. PST |
Very nice! And I have to agree – to me the Pokalem, pillbox hat and side cap are in a race for "least functional headgear" |
| Markconz | 20 Feb 2017 12:36 p.m. PST |
Cheers, I'm not sure about the flank companies, I am actually going to do some for them though I think! |
| Musketier | 12 Mar 2017 7:09 a.m. PST |
@Deadhead: I remember reading some 1814 correpondence in the Vincennes archives that provisional and national guard units were petitioning for permission to form flank companies after they had proven themselves under fire, but that was several years ago and I was after something else, so I didn't transcribe it all – sorry! |
| Markconz | 16 Mar 2017 4:58 p.m. PST |
Interesting thanks for the information Musketier! |
paints the Dogman from the Flintloque starter set.
