Efforts so Far

My painting efforts have, so far, been a bit sporadic and random. I have simply been painting figures as they have taken my fancy and without a particular plan in operation. Starting with the figures from The Assault Group (now with Alban Miniatures) that brought my attention back to Napoleonics, the first few stands I have painted are Austrian Jagers.


Part of the attraction of this unit was trying to get the grayish blue colour right for these figures. The basing is what I am adopting as my standard for infantry; six figures on a 60mm x 50mm base. Two bases for a battalion.

The Eagle Figures Spanish by Ian Mountain, are very fine and a pleasure to paint. There is a great selection from full uniform through partial uniform to entirely civilian clothing:

The only cavalry in my chosen ranges that currently exist are hussars for the Austro-Hungarians. The plastic cavalry from Perry Miniatures are a good substitute. The cuirassier and hussar boxes are both excellent and there are some British hussars on the way.


The French figures from Alban are currently limited to infantry from light regiments but only the Voltiguers (the light company) from line regiments and this leaves me potentially short of the bulk of French infantry. The Perry French are too late for my needs so I have tried an experiment of using spare Perry hussar heads on Victrix bodies. The results are reasonable but I am hoping for figures from Alban to fill in this gap.


I do love the flexibility and ease of conversion that plastic figures allow, so earlier Perry French infantry would be almost as acceptable.