I suppose I did get a fair amount of Napoleonics done at around the same time I was doing the ACW stuff. My first interest is always the 1812 Russian campaign (some of that is seen here), but second, I love the Peninsula campaigns - possibly because of Sharpe. I just cannot get around to this stuff, though I intend to. I never thought T would get into 25/28mm either.
Again, in about the 1990's somewhere, I started up what was gonna be a pair of armies for Empire. British v. French. And, as is typical, I do everything but the hard stuff, the rank and file first. (I have some British finished (60th Royal Americans), but not a single Frenchman in this scale.)
So I started with a baggage train to give purpose to whatever fight was to occur later. There was one last element of crate-laden mules, which I finished up over this weekend. They join the rest of it that was painted decades ago:
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| The drovers I did not bother to touch up, apart from a flesh wash. Otherwise, they were painted at the same time as the other elements seen below: |
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| Tempting to touch this up a bit, but I won't. Forgive the medieval era wheels. |
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| The burros at right are surely from Essex? Correct me if you recognize them. |
Together, this is a tempting prize for a competent French commander. Though apart from the drovers, these could be used in any number of theaters, not just Iberia.










Wonderful work as usual.
ReplyDeleteYou're right about the mules on the right in the photo being Essex Miniatures. They're from their Colonial Sudan range.
Barry S