Friday, 9 February 2024

From KentG: 28mm Napoleonic cavalry and 40mm musketeers (261pts)

 Here we are again this week has been a busy one
I did two 11 hour days along with painting every other night 3-4 hours
most of the time was spent on doing fine details on the two regiments
 of cavalry, which I must admit I am very very happy with


These fellas are 28mm Perry Miniatures painted as 
Polish guard lancers, the Pennants once again are from 
the free download that you can get from Piano wargames
then painted in the correct colors, it sure does make life a little easier


I tried to use a three different ways of using white on these guys
brown base on plumes and lace, blue base fore the gloves and on the
 belt actually used white as the final layer



had fun painting the leopard skin on the commander



I wasn't sure if I was going to do the fiddly work on the 
saddle blankets but was then how can I not after spending 
so much time on the rest

These fine young gentlemen are 
1st Reg French Chasseur's a Cheval


I started painting these and another 76 cavalry on day one
I have just 12 cavalry to go and I will need to undercoat some more so 
I better get gluing figures


it was so much fun painting the cords around the trumpet
and the lace work on the guy, when it all came together
I'm sure I had a wee grin on my face


Lastly I manage to complete 3 more 40mm figures from the 
Musketeers set I have, just two more figures to start then the 
tables and chairs and stuff and that's all completed





They really are fun figures if not a little clumsy being sold metals
and seem to tip over unless secured to the base
I might end up putting magnets in them.



There’s a couple of pictures of the Napoleonic French cavalry 
That I’ve painted in this challenge. 66 cavalry figures so far.





                Points

               12 x 28mm Polish Cavalry 120 Pts

                12 x 28mm French Cavalry 120 Pts

                 3 x 40mm foot    21pts

                For a grand total of 261pts


From Millsy: You've pushed all my Napoleonic buttons with this post Kent. French? Check! Cavalry? Check! Lancers? Check! Absolutely beautiful work as always mate, especially the Poles who are one of my favourite units of the period. Congrats on producing such a wonderful collection of troops. Please tell me you won't just sell them all now!

28 comments:

  1. Love the lancers, fantastic painting

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    1. Thanks Martin, they are my favorite unit so far.

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  2. Well done Kent, superb painting as we've come to expect - Polish lancers are one of, if not the most iconic Napoleonic units and these are ace

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    1. Cheers my friend, in over 40 yrs of collecting this is my very first time painting them, but it won't be my last I think I'll buy them again and do the Dutch ones now.

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  3. Great painting ... love the classic Napoleonic's!

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    1. Thanks Jez, I've always loved Naps, just the variety of uniforms and colors

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  4. Excellent brush work Kent. Great work on all and the lancers are fab.

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  5. The Musketeers are great. The horse are fabulous and really show all the effort you put into them.

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    1. Cheers Tom, I had to fix a few broken tails on the horses so I was really happy that they all came together so well.

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  6. That's a wonderful collection of Cavalry, love the lancers especially but also the workhorse chasseurs. I too like doing the details like bugle cords and lace.

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    1. Thanks Peter, I was really happy with how the Chasseurs came out. I also have a box of the Perry Chasseurs somewhere in the cupboard.

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  7. Your cavalry looks very impressive en masse like that!

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    1. Cheers, I love painting cavalry and thought Id get them out see what I had painted so far

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  8. Gorgeous cavalry Kent. Love 'em. Those musketeers are top shelf stuff as well. Lovely painting as always.

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    1. Thanks so much Curt, I really had a lot of fun painting these, the 40mm are something different for me, but funny enough a customer has just sent me some to paint.

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  9. Awesome Krnt. While the Napleonics are very good, the Musketeers steelmthe show for me!

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    1. Cheers Sanders, they are rather cool, just two more to paint and all the extra bits and they will be compete

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  10. Lovely work. I think you need a more realistic target...

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    1. you are probably right I'll email Curt to see if I can raise it.

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  11. Very very nice Kent! Really like your versions of white. Great attention to detail on that one colour, it works really well!

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    1. Appreciate the comment, I was sitting there thinking now how can I make the different whites stand out.

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  12. Superb work on those lancers Kent

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  13. Lovely work. I love the basing on the nappies.

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  14. Thanks Peter, I need to order some more flowers gone through quite a lot in the comp so far.

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