From PeteF: Old School 15th Dragoons completed for The Gallery of Ancestors (105 points)

Way back in the mists of time, around the mid 1980s, my Dad painted 10 Minifigs French dragoons as the 15th regiment - nice pink facings & turnbacks. For some reason when he painted French cavalry units he would just do 6 or 10 figures - with his Anglo-Allied army he painted the units on a scale of 25:1 - which means I have a lot of British Light Dragoons and Kings German Legion Hussars. 

Bugler painted by my dad in the 1980s

For 100 Days Campaign/Quatres Bras project I'm doing cavalry units of 12 or 18 figures depending on how many were at the battle - the dragoon regiments were quite big so I'm doing 18 of them for this regiment. I added 8 men and 9 horses (extra horse so I could put the bugler my dad painted on a gray one) to complete the unit.

2nd Row painted by my dad

In a way all my Minifigs units could qualify for the Gallery of Ancestors since the Bloody Little Soldiers (as my mum called them) were part of my childhood and many of them lived in a giant cabinet in the dining room for 30+ years. The remaining soldiers were boxed up last year when new carpets went in. They will travel out here to the US whenever I can finally make it to the Old Country for a visit. Darned pandemic.

Minifigs are always fun to paint - although I use acrylics I can still smell the humbrol and oils that my dad used. I would have brought the humbrols out here but could never work out how to ship the tiny flammable tins across the pond.

9 horses and 8 riders plus a room bonus for a total of 105 points.