Time for more French side units for the Russian campaign of 1812. These two were glued to some ugly strips of card waiting for years for a definitive set of rules and bases. Even so the Dutch Grenadiers needed four new figures and the Vistula infantry some ten.
The Dutch imperial guardsmen are all Airfix and one pioneer from Esci. Exceptuating the pioneer figure, the Airfix box had everything you need for the foot Imperial Guard, flag bearer, officer, drummer and NCOs.
The Polish Vistula Legion infantry is mostly made from Esci French due to the short jacket in Bardin style. A few Esci Russian bodies were also used with French shakoes. Apparently the Vistula infantry didn´t use the Czapka making these Esci figures a reasonable choice. The lapels were disguised with several coats of paint. Here the problems start as the different sources (or interpretations, if you want) show many different details regarding cords, cuffs and even chin strap colors. The only thing they all agree is the white epaulettes for the grenadiers. I hope that the amount of yellow on these figures makes them stand apart from the masses of French infantry near by
Again the figures are glued to each other in order to have a sturdier base with no paint coming out.
The problem with these old boxes from Esci is the lack of equipment in many figures. So all of them had a backpack from a deceased figure namely the kneeling figure at the front row and the shooting figure in the second row. In the third row there are some Airfix French artillerymen with a Pom Pom made of a piece of heated plastic. Finally there are also some Hat figures for variety.
The flags were taken from this image on the Web.This is my usual way to produce flags: I simply doubled them into a word page and resized it into a convenient size.
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Lovely work!
ReplyDeleteThanks mate. Oldies but goldies :)
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