try-out 28mm warlord hanoverians

[petercooman]

So, while the napoleonic bug is still strong, i decided to try my hand at painting some in 28mm.

I got these for free in my crisis goodie bags two years ago ( always get two goodie bags, as i bring my wife  ), and decided to paint them, even if i probably have no use for them. (i will probably go for peninsular campaign, so will have to do a bit of digging to see if any unit used that headress, but it seems they were a later thing)

Not based like i want them based, but i don't have the correct size lying about. Biut it's just a try out anyway!

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

Nice job.
All the sources I have say they wore either stovepipe or Belgic shako. 

[petercooman]

Nice job.
All the sources I have say they wore either stovepipe or Belgic shako. 

Yes indeed, can't even find a regiment of line that wore them in the 100 days campaign   

Presumably some of the landwehr wore them, But the models are sold as hanoverian LINE infantry.       

Anyway, won't have to worry about that when doing peninsular troops. Stovepipe chaco for everyone 


This is all Sean Beans fault really, been watching the sharpe series again!

[petercooman]

Guess i have found one:

bataillon de campagne d'Osnabruck (and just my luck they are wearing green uniforms)




But it doesn't matter, as i painted mine to resemble the Osnabruck landwehr




Seeing as i will be aiming at 24 men per unit, i just got to get the other ones in shako to gt the right mix  IF i want to go on to the 100 days after the peninsular campaign.

[Leman]

Really! So have I Peter, and reading the books. I am going Baccus with Lasalle rules for larger games and Sharp Practice with 28mm for skirmish-style encounters.

[petercooman]

Still one of the best series ever!

I watch them (or at least part of them) about once per year! And everytime i do, i want to get started on napoleonic wargamig 

Last time it inspired me to get my 2mm armies for the periods, this time i want bigger. The uniforms are fun to paint at 28mm scale. Don't know if i'll still say that after 100 blokes 

[Techno]

Nice work, Peter !

Cheers - Phil

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

Some units even wore tropical issue White shakos, due to equipment shortages!

[petercooman]

From: The Very Thing. By Jonathan Crook. 'The Memoirs of Drummer Richard Bentinck, Royal Welch Fusiliers 1807-1823' Page 121.

"While Laying before Toulouse, Bentinck's Regiment, the 23rd Foot, captured a French vessel, coming unscrupulously up the river. She was laden with cloth. This was a god send to the ragged Soldiers, the best clad of whom had tattered trousers made out of old blankets; the worst clad had nothing much in the way of clothing to describe. The Colonel at once portioned out the cloth to each Company, gave orders that every man who could cut or sew must be put to work and in a day or two had every man rigged out in new trousers. As the cloth embraced every colour of the rainbow, blue, green, red, and even yellow, the effect was laughable in the extreme, but the poor fellows had so long been near to breechless that the wore them with pure joy."

[jimduncanuk]

Here's how I did my Hanoverians.

http://jim-duncan.blogspot.co.uk/2015/11/hanoverians.html



And:

http://jim-duncan.blogspot.co.uk/2016/02/hanoverian-top-up.html

[petercooman]

Yes i remember seeing them. They look great! Nice big block of troops!

Don't know if i like the warlord or the perry boxes better. Am i wrong or do the perry boxes lack marching poses for the british?

[jimduncanuk]

Yes i remember seeing them. They look great! Nice big block of troops!

Thanks!

Don't know if i like the warlord or the perry boxes better. Am i wrong or do the perry boxes lack marching poses for the british?

I've never done any Perry British so can't say.

[petercooman]

I've never done any Perry British so can't say.

Well the perry box is designed to be in firing line or at the ready :







They are nice, but no marching anywhere..

[Norm]

Nice paint jobs Peter and Jim.

I think the British uniform is quite a complicated paint in 28mm, I am just doing some ACW. - so a bit more of a relaxing paint!

Peter, accepting that the British may have been a challenge to paint, has your experience with these left you wanting to do more with 28mm?

[petercooman]

Well, seeing i started work on these figures on tuesday and had them finished wednesday evening, it wasn't all that bad.

Yes i think i'll want to do more, but i can definately see me being bored out after a 100 

That's why i would go for the peninsular campaign, gives you some change in the line-up with the portugese and spanish.

Off course you can say the same for the waterloo armies, who had nassau troops and all that, but i think waterloo, wich was a huge battle, is better suited to my 2 mm forces. The peninsular campaign had all kinds of battles, big and small, so more 'gaming scope'.


ps: the hardest part was actually getting a good coverage on the red. It was also a try out for some different colours i picked up from the arts and craft stores. The red and white didn't cover all that well, but the grey and black where good.