Start of 1806 Prussian Army

Ok so am am getting close to where I want to be with my French and wanted to start working on my 1806 15mm Prussian Army probably in August, anyway I got a wild hair and decided to mount up several of the units on sticks to get them ready for priming. They are Essex figures, I wish they were AB but this many figs from AB would be a small fortune. Given that I will probably will not start them for about 40 days or so I thought perhaps priming them early and letting them sit and cure would be good. So here is what you see so far

5 Musketeer units 32 ea.
1 Grenadier unit 32 figs.
1 Fusilier unit with 32 figs
1 Jaeger unit to be mounted as an irregular unit of 20 figures.

I still have 1 more fusilier unit, 1-2 more Jaeger units, 4-5 more Grenadier units and some cav plus artillery to mount for painting.  I will also be ordering some more Musketeers from AB along with some more cav and artillery if everything works out around the beginning of August.  Anyway here are the "lads" mounted up ready for priming.

15mm Essex French 20th Dragoons Update #2

Ok so these guys are almost there, I have done some of the uniform details but they still need some touch ups here and there, also the helmets need to be finished. I should have these guys done today and will post more pics of them when completed.  I am still waiting on my flocking material to come in so that will not be done on any of my units until then.

15mm Old Glory French 5th Hussars Update #1

Ok so I am trying to paint up all of the units I can as I may be playing Lasalle with my friend that owns our local FLGS.  Anyway I had this unit of Old Glory French Hussars that I had ordered a while ago and decided to paint these up as well as another unit of Hussars this time Essex(unit not figured out yet)(nor pictured). I will post these up again when finished along with the other Hussar unit when I decide what unit to make them.  This is not much to look at yet, but here they are...

15mm/18mm AB French Dragoons finished

Okay so my mate Galpy gave me some tips on finishing these guys up, so I have just completed them. I only need to finish the basing but I do not have the the stuff I want to use to base them so that may be a bit before that is done, but at least they are playable.  My friend the local FLGS owner is coming over next weekend to play Lasalle, I got General d' Brigade as well but he wanted to try Lasalle as he sells it in his store, I will post pics and descriptions of what happens in the game after wards. I hope they turn up in the photos, The macro on this cheapy Nikon L10 just is not that good, so here goes...

15mm Essex Dragoons Update #1

Well as I stated earlier I had these laying around and thought I would do them up as a comparison to the AB's.  Well there is none, enough said on that!  I question the accuracy of these Essex Dragoon's specifically the Saddles and the mounting for the carbine's.  These are painted up to represent the 20th French Dragoons.  They are not done by any means so this is the first update for these guys. I do have to say it is going to take a lot of work to get them up to the AB standard.  The AB's just paint as if it is a natural act and well the Essex... I will leave that to your imagination.

15mm AB French 15th Dragoons update #2

Ok so here are the AB 15mm/18mm French Dragoons.  I ended up going with the 15th for them as I wanted some color other than red, white and blue on my side of the table.  They have Green and Pink colorings which you can find a complete list of French Dragoon colors at this website.

http://www.napoleonguide.com/cavalry_frcoldra.htm

So here they are, I still have to paint on buttons but they are mounted on there bases now.  So here they are, again please comment if you have constructive criticism, I can use all the help I can get.  In my next post I will post the Essex Dragoons that I had laying around, and I have to say that they are like melted hunks of metal when compared with the AB's.  The one BIG criticism I have for the AB Lasalle units packs is that the flippin' Eagle bearer does not COME WITH THE UNIT!  What was the Eagle optional? LOL  So now I have to spend $2.00 for an eagle bearer and horse and that will give me one extra Dragoon as the units of French Dragoons in Lasalle are 12 to a unit and I will have 13!  Anyway enough O' that...

AB Ney 15mm/18mm Update #2

Damn this camera, no matter how I try to do the lighting I just can not get them to come out right!  Anyway I hope these pictures turned out okay??? I still have some final touch up's to do but they are almost finished.
Let me know what you think... I shamelessly copied what the owner of Napoleonic Adventures did as far as lay out as it just looked "right"...  The center mini is the same but the rest are different, just painted somewhat alike...  Anyway is the lighting okay on this?

Update #1 AB Marshall Ney

I still have some highlights to do, but here is my first AB mini.  I am going to use this Ney mini and 2 others, 1 as Neys' ADC and another Cavalry officer to make up the command stand.  Anyway let me know what you think so far, please.  I have posted a bunch of pictures and had no one but my mate Galpy has bothered to really respond to any of my posts, so please if you have constructive criticism's please add them... I will never get better if you do not.  I have no real historical painters local to get idea's from...so anyway.

Cheers...

15mm AB French 15th Dragoons update #1

Well I thought I would make these the 15th Dragoons, no reason really other than some color variation on the battlefield.  I have not checked yet but I kinda hope that they were at Waterloo.  I guess I should of thought of that before painting facings... LOL oh well.

Update: I just checked an the the planned 15th and 20th that I have were at Waterloo and in the same division!!!  Too bad I did not plan it that way but I guess the result is the same...

Cheers...

15mm Old Glory Suisse Infantry Update #1

well these guys have been knocking about for a bit so I thought I had better start finishing them.  In case you are wondering why there are NO 28mm ECW mini's here yet, well I can blame that on my mate Galpy in NZ.  He is the one that convinced me to get the new AB's I have but I told my self to finish this suisse unit first.  So anyway here is the first update on them.

Cheers...