Start of Napoleonic French

[Apoc]

Evening all,

Been lurking for a few months looking at everyone else's great projects and wanted to share my first pendraken/10mm historical figures. I've been interested in Napoleonics for years, but paralysed by indecision around scale. However, I've had fun painting some old 10mm GW Warmaster fantasy figure the last two years, so thought it might be a good scale to finally give Napoleonics a proper go!

Dipping my toes in with some French with a bit of a mix of stuff for a first go:
(Bavarian dragoons ... I like the hats? Just exploring the range a bit!)




Question if anyone knows and this is a suitable place to ask: i'm thinking of getting some limbers for my horse artillery – did horse artillery limber drivers wear busbys and dolman/pelisse as per the horse gunners? I've seen this in the italeri 1/72 plastic kit, but elsewhere have only seen limber crew in shako?

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

Those are fabulous and a brilliant first post

[Steve J]

Welcome on board and I must say your troops look very impressive!

[toxicpixie]

Very nice indeed!

[Ithoriel]

As the others have said, great looking figures and an excellent first post. I'll wish you a belated welcome to the forum!

[Shecky]

Impressive.

[paulr]

 

Welcome Apoc

Definitely an impressive first post

[Lord Kermit of Birkenhead]

Moaning - good stuff there 

[Techno II]

A very warm welcome to the forum, Apoc. 

Terrific work on those figures ! 

Cheers - Phil.

[fred.]

Welcome - that is a cracking start, great looking set of figures.

Do share your WM armies too!

[DecemDave]

I like the hats.   
And welcome to the wonderful world of 10mm

[Westmarcher]

Welcome from me, too. Great start to your collection. 

It's been a couple of decades since I owned a Napoleonic collection but if for French HA, I think it was the Shako for Line HA and Busby for Guard HA. But no doubt one of our Nap experts will soon be along to confirm. As for other nationalities (e.g., Bavarian) - sorry.

[Apoc]

Thank you for the warm welcome all

Do share your WM armies too!

I won't post the full pictures here, as I don't want to detract from the Pendraken-ness of the Pendraken forums, but you can find images of my high elves here:
https://www.specialist-arms.com/forum/index.php?topic=9033.30 (army shots about half way down)
and my nurgle plague circus here: https://warmaster-fr.niceboard.com/t3925-armee-cirque-de-la-peste
And a sample image of each: (mods feel free to remove if non PD images not the done thing here! )


– i  like doing conversions, not worked out where the scope for that is in Napoleonics yet, hat swaps aside.

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

That's amazing. Us mods won't mind such talent!

[fred.]

That Nurgle army is super impressive, and very very mad! How did you come up with the circus theme? And what are the base figures for the nurglings?

The elves are very smart too - I really need to revisit my WM Elves and give them a bit of a refresh, they were my first 10mm army, and could do with some updating and just fixing of damaged paint from being played with a lot