"AB 18mm König Chevau-léger Regiment for 1809" Topic

As a notorious non-baser, I have finally plucked up the patience to go back and add some dirt and grass to my figures.

Working through my Allied army for 1809 I decided to base one of my oldest units on the shelf. The König Chevau-léger Regiment in their dark green coats.

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I base on a standard 18mm base: 40mm x 30mm.
I add grit, and paint with a Dark Umber artist acrylic, with a dry-brush of successive earthy tones from green brown, grey and buff. Then to top it all off I add some dead grass flock from Gale Force 9 and woodland scatter for shrubs.

I paint the rims of the base black, but I have been toying up whether or not to paint a little symbol on the rear end to mark out regiment affiliation; especially for my Austrian and French units.

Any thoughts on the best, and most aesthetically pleasing way to make it easier to identify units?

Nice unit!

The question about identifying units is a good one- I put labels under them but that doesn't help much on the table top

there a lot of wargamers are into monstrous standards and colours, you could create a mobile one, placed behind the unit – a sort of identification standard – like the usual Bavarian colour with the regimental number on it.

Nice work!

yes nice work and to my delight, seemingly one of the few wargamers who resists showing fictional or non worn standards, so maybe my idea is not that all good.

So, von W, I must ask, do you wargame or do you "just" produce the kind of figures you have shown us before for display?

If you do throw dice, how do you identify units? I have seen and like this clever idea of circular bases for casualty counters, but hate to see labels, rulers and beer bottles with sandwiches all over a beautiful bit of scenery.

Would your Scots Greys not have a Guidon? One day my Life Guards will, as I bought the GMB standards years ago…but never got the Perry figures. Do you not give even the smallest unit of French hussars an Eagle?

I stick to the historical use – When I had my 3000 miniatures strong wargaming army (Prussian and French) – 15 mm – I had no trouble identifying units, on a French colour attached to an eagle you won't be able to identify the number of the unit, so I did different great coat colours for different regiments, rolled on the pack, different overal colours, some units in great coats, the rest i could identify well with the uniforms.

I find it a pity that in wargaming the trend to those monstrous colours or even worse gigantic cavalry standards are in high vogue.

Nice work. Very clean lines and attention to detail.

Thanks all for your kind words.

I am a user of flags, but only when necessary and to a scale that looks right. I have found it difficult to rank up the appropriate Austrian battalions, even with the facing colours, and now starting with the French may find myself in the same situation.

I like the idea of the rolled greatcoats being one neat colour. Though I am partial to a wide varieties of browns, orchres and tans for my figures. Thank you the insights.

I may paint the rear left hand side of the base in an appropriate colour and unit number.

- Kurt.