From IanS: 6mm Russian Napoleonic Horde continues (390pts)

I would like to dedicate this post to my nephew Simon McGoldrick who died suddenly on Sunday leaving three small girls and another on the way, a dutiful son,  great father and husband and will be sadly missed by everyone who knew him. 

Here is the next instalment of the Great Napoleonic Russian Paint off.

This is the 27th Division part of Sackens Corps 1813.  This division consists of 3 brigades, 2 infantry and 1 Jager, along with Skirmishers, Generals and attached Artillery battery unfortunately the skirmishers and generals are not ready yet.

I have taken on board the advice after the last post and am trying out utilising a black background.

So the first Brigade is of 3 Battalions of Jager's from the 49th and 50th Jager regiments.  All figures are resin from MC miniatures and each Battalion is 96 models.

2nd Brigade is of 2 line infantry Battalions representing the Vilnius and Sibirsk regiments.

3rd Brigade is again consists of 2 Line infantry Battalions, representing the Odessa and Tarnopol regiments.

                                                                         and rear 

Attached Artillery is a light battery of 3 bases each of 2 guns with 6 limber teams.  All my Artillery batteries for the Russians will be 3 bases of both guns and limbers representing a 12 gun battery.  In my club rules artillery are very expensive and a Russian army can end up very small if you are doing historical orders of battle.  Again all figures are resin.

                                                                          Limbers 

                                                                          and Guns

So i just need to finish the Skirmishers and generals and then on to the 16th Division this is a small division with just one brigade of 4 line Battalions and attached artillery battery.  Then its the Cavalry and if i have time yet another Russian Infantry Corps.

Although i have been asked to paint some Austrian 6mm army whose battalions are 142 figures per battalion.

Points to be claimed

Infantry - 672 6mm figures at 0.5 pts per figure = 336pts

Artillery - 6 guns at 1 pt each and 36 gunners at 0.5 pts each = 24pts

Limbers - 6 guns and 6 limbers 12 mounted drivers 12 limber horses = 30pts

Total to be claimed = 390pts

I'm very sorry to hear of your loss. 

Excellent work and output, Ian!

Tamsin

From IanS: 6mm Napoleonic Russians (288pts)

 

So this week the emphasis has been on the Napoleonic Russian 6mm army.

All these figures go towards the 10th Infantry Division of Sackens Corps at the battle of Leipzig.  this Division consisted to three Brigades,  two of Line Infantry and one of Jager, totalling 8 Battalions.

I have struggled with these figures for a number of reasons:

I did not like how I painted the Jager's and had to redo them.  The other main reason is that the flags are not coming out how I would like then, so I an toying with the idea of printing out flags and finding a way to secure them to the figures.

 

But here goes:

Belozersk Infantry Regiment of 2 Battalion, this with the previously posted Crimea Regiment gives a 3 battalion Brigade.

 

 

 

 

Next up is the Jager Brigade of this division of three Battalions made up of the 8^th and 39^th Jager regiments.

 

 

 

Finally its one of the two battalions of the Yaroslav regiment, form the last brigade.

Hopefully next post will have the final battalion for this division, plus its Commanders, Skirmish formations and attached Artillery Battery.

 

 

So the points I would like to submit are as follows:

 

3 Infantry Battalions – 288 6mm figures at 0.5pts per figure = 144pts

3 Jager Battalions - 288 6mm figures at 0.5pts per figure = 144pts

 

Total 288pts

 

Does any of this get me a squirrel?

That's certainly a good show of the massed ranks effect that 6mm allows. It's just a shame that the lighting in the photos means that we can't see them in all their painted glory.

As far as squirrels go, if you haven't already submitted 6mm Russian Naps then this lot will count for one.

Tamsin

From IanS:15mm Palmyrans, and 6mm Russians (160pts)

Dear All

So here is my first post of the challenge as per usually with my painting i am behind in my schedule with projects.  First up are some Palmyrans which should have been finished before the challenge even started and only half the army was done so they are being carried over into the challenge.

All figures are from Forged in battle from their Palmyrans or Sassanid ranges. The Draco standards are home made from green stuff as is the foot officers cloak.

First up are the Cataphracts which the army will have 5 units this is the fourth unit.

Light Horse which there will be 3 units and this is the first.

And rear view or is that front again never can tell with these type of units.

Finally for the Palmyrans, some Heavy Infantry, inspired from an Osprey men at arms book on eastern armies took a long time to find these figures but forged in battle came up trumps in their Sassanid rage.

So Plamyran pts:

Cataphracts - 12 x 15mm figures at 4pts each = 48 pts

Light Horse - 8 x 15mm figures at 4pts each = 32 pts

Heavy Infantry - 16 x 16mm figures at 2pts each = 32 pts

Total = 112pts

The next submission is the one that i was actually planning for this challenge.  6mm Napoleonic is the scale and period i have been doing for over 40 years and this year my club Farnbourgh Wargaming Club in the UK decided to try out 6mm Napoleonic's but based on 15mm figure basing for a massed effect.  So i declared i know what for this years painting challenge i will do Sackens corps at the battle of Leipzig.

I costed up figure options and knew the wife would kill me if i spent that much on toys soldiers especially ones that small.  Then Chris at the club came to my rescue and agreed to print off some resin figures.  I brought 5 STL files from MC models at £2 each and a week later the figures arrived.

2880 infantry

480 cavalry

36 guns crews and limbers.

The figures come on strips of 16 infantry or 12 cavalry and guns with crew attached.

Each file has two strips one with command and one without.

Each Battalion will have 1 command strip and 5 marching strips giving a battalion 96 figures based on 2 x 60mm frontage bases.

Front view

Back view

6mm Russian;

Battalion of Infantry - 96 x 6mm figures at 0.5pts each = 48 pts

So total for first submission 

15mm Palmyrans - 112 pts

6mm Russians - 48 pts

Total 160 pts.

I am hoping that i have complied with the rules for posting especially as my Minion is TamsinP.  

Yes i am very afraid.

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Well Ian, fear not as Tamsin is not on duty as Minion until January 3rd. Instead you have me as your humble servant, so you can rest easy in fearful anticipation for another week. That being said, I'd suggest you re-read her missive on not publishing to the blog yourself (ahem), otherwise things will get messy, I can guarantee it. :P

Lovely work here! I really like the vibrant Palmyrans with their red spears, blue tack and colourful shields. The Russian Napoleonics are excellent as well, especially as you've made great use of the scale to mass them on your bases. They look terrific.

Great work Ian, and welcome back to the Challenge!

- Curt