Friday, 6 February 2026

From RichardM- Peninsular War 6mm Spanish and Dutch (135 points)

This weeks offerings are a bit meagre compared to prior weeks - a late start to the week's painting is simply to blame.

First up I have two regiments of Spanish cavalry.  They are the 3rd Almansa Dragoons with the blue facings and the 5th Villaviciosa Dragoons with the green facings.  I wanted to start with the Dragoons considering their yellow coats - the Spanish heavy cavalry are boring blue again.



Then there are 4 battalions of Spanish infantry in late war uniforms supplied by Britain.  They were supplied in both a light/sky blue and a dark blue colour.  Each had red facings apparently, although I have seen some (modern) illustrations with black facings also.  I intend to do four in total in light blue and I think six in total in the darker blue.  They do not represent any particular battalions - just too hard considering how the units and uniforms came and went on the Spanish side during the war.


Then I have continued with the Confederation of the Rhine troops that Napoleon used in the Peninsular.  This time it is the two Dutch battalions - one from the 2nd Regiment and one from the 4th Regiment.


With a lot of white uniforms to come - both Spanish but later and more significantly Westphalians and Austrians, I need to find a suitable wash or some other method to get some depth into the white uniforms.  

Points

Spanish infantry- 4 battalions of 24 figures @ 0.5 points per figure = 48 points
Spanish Cavalry - 2 regiments of 24 mounted figures @ 1 point per figure - 48 points
Dutch Regiment - 2 battalions of 36 figures @ 0.5 points = 36 points

Total = 132 points

From DaveD. Great to see more focus on this project . It’s always good to see people’s projects build up through the challenge period .Naps in small scale really allow that creation of armies and yours is looking mighty fine . I’m giving it 135 .


6 comments:

  1. Great additions to your project Richard. Very excited to see the whole army once completed. Well done.

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  2. Meagre or not I really like them!

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  3. Nice looking units, well done.

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  4. Terrific additions to your collection, Richard. Love seeing the Dutch units.

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  5. Really enjoying seeing the variety of units for the Penninsula. The Spanish often get ignored and I love those yellow dragoons

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  6. Good to see these again Richard, you must have pushed hard to make it given your comments in chat - excellent work again

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