from RayR - Retreat from Moscow - Illyrian regt 40pts

I've been chasing my tail over the Christmas festivities, painting whenever the chance came my way, which to be honest was quite a lot, but due to a spilt pot of uniform grey, instead of painting just one unit like I planned, I've ended up starting a few units at the same time, so today, I put most of the figures aside and chose one unit to complete, which i did in the last 5 minutes! Its not my planned unit of WWII Finns either.

Here we have another unit for my and Lee's Retreat from Moscow project and no, before you ask, we haven't had a game yet........

Four regiments of the Illyrian regiment served in Marshal Ney's 10th Corps, in Razout's 11th Division, under Brigadier Compere, along with two regiments of the 2nd Portuguese.

The figures are a mix of Front Rank and Perry Miniatures, and some have a distinctive blue/grey cost, for no real reason other I wanted them to stand out .

Trying to find any info on the units proved quite difficult, I hoped that they'd have a different uniform colour, like the green coated Croatians, I'd have used different figures if that was so, but it seems they wore an identical uniform to normal French line......how boring!

Points mean prizes

My Illyrians will give me 40 points

8 figures x 5 pts each.

From DaveD . Welcome back to the fray Ray. Thats not such a disaster I feel.. you are now ahead of the game for next week. Those lads look suitably chilly . I like the choice of the blue grey greatcoat . I certainly works . 40 points it is .