General Uvarov´s Guard Cavalry Division is preparing itself for the famous right flanking maneuver at Borodino.
These Guard Uhlans are the Russian Uhlans of Strelets that I had for years in the stash. As all Uhlans are virtually the same in all Napoleonic armies this group was close to finish his life painted as Austrian or French but ended up in the uniforms and colors they were supposed to have. The figures are rare, I suppose, as they are some of the oldest models Strelets produced back in 2003. The lances were replaced by broom sticks and paper pennants. After painting and gloss varnishing the paper looks like plastic.
The Guard Cossacks are the obvious Zvezda in their generous box containing 15 of these beauties. Due to the need of 16 figures I was forced to open a second box with the remaining figures becoming Bug Cossacks in the future.
Again Zvezda for the Elisabethgrad Hussar Regiment, a detached regiment to the Guard division.
Uvarov´s Divisional stand was not easy to make as I couldn't find other portraits of the man but the more famous ones with a bit too fancy uniforms ( we call it here "clothes to visit godmother"). So my inspiration came from the Uvurov's Perry figure in 28mm on their website. The other figure pretends to be a messenger from Elisabethgrad Hussar regiment.
Uvarov started his new life as the figure of Prussian King Friedrich-Wilhelm III but with the addition of some GreenStuff he quickly exchanged his Germanic origins for Slavic ones.
Both figures are Strelets and the horses are Revell from the British Dragoons box. With a bit of GreenStuff the shabraque can be turned into whatever model you want.
One more beautiful farm by Mário Laranja made of card strengthened with Super Glue. My only work was the painting which is really easy due to the detail that Mário puts into the models.
Next: More Russian Infantry for Borodino
Really nice work there as always JP and good to see some minor conversions too:).
ReplyDeleteThanks. This thing of trying to make some historical characters suits Napoleonics quite well. Maybe is the abundance of era paintings of the real people.
ReplyDeleteLovely work indeed. I become more attracted to 20mm . All I need to do is find a period I can do in that scale that I don't already have in other sizes.
ReplyDeleteThanks Big Andy. I got stuck with 20mm since childhood. Only made Waterloo in 28mm, Lebanon 82 in 15mm and Maipo in 12mm.
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