| Rich 1818ish | 10 Feb 2021 5:09 a.m. PST |
Have finished all 24 of my Lithuanian Tartars. The figures are from Boki Wargame Miniatures. The figures have great detail but do need some squeezing in depending on your base size (I squeezed the lance arm and the legs on each figure before undercoating). I added the lances using 0.8mm brass rod and the flags were from Essex Miniatures (they will sell just the lances if you request). In reality I think a 24 figure unit is very high for this regiment, but I wanted to show them as Napoleon imagined them to be… (to be honest I just liked them)!
I have some picture on my blog if anyone is interested.
1818ish.blogspot.com |
| nickinsomerset | 10 Feb 2021 6:07 a.m. PST |
Very nice, must get mine done, thanks for the inspiration! Tally Ho! |
| Redcurrant | 10 Feb 2021 6:27 a.m. PST |
I was under the impression that the Lithuanian Tartars of the Guard were only 1 squadron strong, like the Mamelukes. Am I mistaken in this? Very nicely painted. |
| Rich 1818ish | 10 Feb 2021 7:35 a.m. PST |
Thank you for the kind comments, I think Napoleon envisaged around 1,000 but only about 120 turned up and embarked on the Russian 1812 campaign. This left around 880 Lithuanians feeling they had really dodged a bullet in January 1813. |
 deadhead  | 10 Feb 2021 1:57 p.m. PST |
They are not yet on the linked site and I would love to see them. I did this unit in 28mm from Gringos40, but I do not think I managed the detail in painting that you have, in a smaller scale. I am not upset….sob… They are beautiful as a unit. Obviously a tiny unit, but my "purely display" collection does not have one single French Line Infantryman, but instead over 30 Gendarmes d'Elite (with no fewer than three eagles) |
| Rich 1818ish | 10 Feb 2021 2:53 p.m. PST |
Hi, thanks for the kind comments. The other photos are on the link but I painted and posted the first two in December and added the new ones over the last few days. If you filter on "French" on the labels you will soon find them.
link
Hope this helps and thanks again for the comments. |
| SHaT1984 | 13 Feb 2021 2:10 p.m. PST |
Yeah I agree a wonderful rendition of a scarcely modelled unit I'm betting. A 'proper' size unit isn't any more a heresy than substitute figures for other reasons. We all model differently, some like masses, where I'm customising and making one-off figures for nearly all my French. And yes I have one of these in 25mm as a sample bought, and quickly sample painted, 40 odd years ago.
I could even be convinced to create such a unit because, in my timeline, Napoleon called them up in 1807 to fight ;-)
cheers d |
| deadhead | 14 Feb 2021 1:49 p.m. PST |
I hope people will follow your link provided above. En Masse they are even better. But, individually, they are better than I managed in 28mm. That is skilled painting. Now I know why I went to Vietnam in 28mm and then 2eme DB Liberation of Paris in 20mm |
| SHaT1984 | 14 Feb 2021 2:59 p.m. PST |
People are quite lazy so you need to link to the article, not the header old chap! Lithuanian Tartars. Also, just a note that your scandalous banner isn't very readable- the old gold shade of ink has scarely enough contrast to the background to be noticeable. (I mean readable really…) dh is right of course, the clearer pix are much betterer…
cheers d [Summer monsoons bring Covid again,,, ahhh…. ] |
| Fredloan | 17 Feb 2021 3:16 p.m. PST |
Nice Russian Army Rich. I am working on the same and have the First Western Army completed now except for limbers, caissons, wagons. |
| Rich 1818ish | 23 Feb 2021 4:00 p.m. PST |
Thanks again for the comments and suggestions. Yes, better to link straight to the page referenced !! Thank you making and adding the link. Also good advice on the text. Will have to look at changing that. I think I was unsure about the 1818 concept and left it a little unreadable subconsciously as a result ! Fred, Hope progress is going well for you. It took me some time to get this far with the Russians. They were supposed to be a side project to my French army. Just to balance things up and make sure I had some opposition, but it has taken on a life of its own. I still have some more pictures to post at some point. |
| SHaT1984 | 24 Feb 2021 3:29 a.m. PST |
Hi Rich
Even an old dyed-intheweool heretic like me enjoys a little sideways fantasy 'whatif' every now'n'agin…
my sideways step from the Austrians to include a few Russian bodies, well because… even tho my main venture is the IVCorps Soult at Austerlitz.
;-) dave |
| 14Bore | 24 Feb 2021 5:01 p.m. PST |
That I have all of the 1st Western Army of Borodino but a few and not many are stand ins, this is one unit but mostly didn't have the figures. Fantastic job on them, wish I had them.
Your apothecary wagon is interesting, didn't see that listed. |
