Teamwork

 Here are some just completed British Artillery teams. HH original figures, but Hinchcliffe limbers.

In the background, under prep, are the Inniskilling dragoons and the Life Guards.

I'll just get on my mare 'n go

 Here's my French Horse Grenadiers of the Guard, just recently completed.

Fnurr, Fnurr!

 Please forgive my puerile sense of humour, but I was just prepping some British artillery teams for re-painting, and as I stuck this RHA limber rider on his bottle top I couldn't help thinking, "Wow, he looks like he's in desperate need!". I'll get me coat.

French Carabiniers

These are 9 x FN 106 (horse attached) and 3 x FN 311 (dismountable). The FN 106 came with a reasonable paint job which I've tried to replicate on the FN311, not quite my usual painting style but close enough. Next up will be 12 x FN 56, Guard Horse Grenadiers, dimly seen in the background in this photo. Any tips for painting black tack on black horses in a toy soldier style would be much appreciated!

Six of one, half a dozen of the other

Here are my French Guard Lancers, 1 x FN41 Guard Lancer Trumpeter, 2 x FN40 French Guard Lancer Officer, 2 x FN40 converted to lancers holding lance upright, plus 7 x unidentified lancers with couched lance. I think the unidentified ones might actually be Austrian Uhlans, the bases have been filed smooth so can't see any catalogue numbers. I have pinched an idea from Mark of the Ilkley Old School blog and painted half as Polish Lancers and half as Dutch, I don't believe that's too much of a stretch as I think I read somewhere that they where brigaded together at Waterloo?

 

A mixed bag

Been busy painting over the last couple of months but haven't got round to posting on the blog, so here's a bit of a catch up.

British 7th Hussars, a mix of HH OPCs, HH KGL hussars with the peaks filed off the headgear, plus some Lammings to make up the numbers.

Coldstream guards ( or at my level of paining detail, a generic British regiment with blue facings!)

The 33rd foot (West Riding of Yorkshire regiment)

And finally, I converted a couple of Fusilier officers to ensigns and did a head swap on a Newline drummer to add a command stand to my 23rd fusiliers.

Quick wins

Another British Light Dragoon unit, this time the 12th.

These are 12 x BN50, a recent ebay purchase, already painted very close to my own style, just needed some touching up and black lining, then re-basing. The horses needed a little attention, they were all a uniform chocolate brown.

A certain Arthur Wellesley joined the 12th as a subaltern  in 1789, I wonder what happened to him?

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