Handmade Persian Napoleonic Infantry and other stuff - MartinC

Today I completed my 1st ever Napoleonic units. They were amazingly Persians for the Russian Persian way of 1807-1813. Whilst you can buy the figures from Westfalia and Irregular miniatures I decided to make my own.

This is the target uniform

I made a body out of an old zombie body and added some milliput to give baggy trousers and straps

Cast 20 of them - I had 220g of swarf collected

Added a Mahdist head and ACW arms and musket from Perry Plastics

Modeled the tall woolly hat

Painted them up with a standard bearer and an Old Glory Persian officer'

Really very pleased  with them. I purchased some Old Glory camel gunners. These come with matchlocks so I replaced the matchlocks with 1/2lb culverins for 3 of the 6. I also changed the hats

Camel gunners

These mixed with irregular Afghans will give a pretty good Persian army

I've had a few figures lying around that I've been painting up with left over paint

Hasslefree Boudi figures. These are great sculpts

Sub-Roman Brits from Crusader

British Zulu war figs with mealie bag and bucket

Copplestone Detective

Northstar Greek

Slave market

Overall 34 foot and 6 mtd figures (230pts) plus what ever bonus is awarded for casting my own figures my lovely minion deems fit to award

MilesR: Hand cast? Hand casted figure - oh good lord that takes the cake.  I stand in utter amazement at your industriousness.  As for bonus points, I'll need to confer with the snow lord but have awarded 10 points as a placeholder for sheer audacity.  You get the the homemade points bomb award this year!