Thursday 5 April 2012

Heroic Poles and commands

 We recently had a Borodinesue battle at Chez Blaireau featuring 2,000+ figures. The players were moi, Ken P, Big Red Bat, and Will "the cabbage" De Pretre. And Puss.............
 The Russians won but BRB is covering the battle on his blog but I wanted to show some pictures of my Perry Russian command.
 Perry's - lovely to paint, f*cking horrible to preoare.
 I love this shot Simon took of Ney!
 Napoleon et boys.
 Kutusov (Ken?) is p*ssed and Bagration (RTB obviously) looks dashing.
 The only French unit that performed well was the Poles!  They very nearly swung the battle on their own! Note the inpet Bavarian light infantry..................
 1st and 2nd battalion of the 5th regiment.
 Below are some very old Foundry French line infantry painted by me. I think they may be the first I ever painted actually.  I dont think they ever made it to the front line!
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11 comments:

  1. Doc Smith5 April 2012 at 12:24

    Roger - the boys look marvelous! Definitely ordering some skirmishers off you next time. I liked your Russian command stand too. Urrah! Looks like a cracker of a battle - post more please (and an AAR?) Great stuff!

    Cheers,
    Doc

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  2. Rodger5 April 2012 at 12:38

    Top notch photos! Excellent stuff.

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  3. john de terre neuve5 April 2012 at 13:49

    Great looking troops and I love the command stands. It looks like it was a great game. I like the big command stands, I still have my British to convert (bit of a challenge because the lack of appropriate figures).

    John

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  4. Iannick5 April 2012 at 14:15

    Excellent pics and great painting! Well done Rog.

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  5. fireymonkeyboy5 April 2012 at 17:53

    Lovely mass there, and some really nice vignettes on the bases.

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  6. Curt6 April 2012 at 19:18

    Beautiful game. I really like the command and skirmishing stands. Well done!
    Curt

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  7. Paulalba8 April 2012 at 04:51

    what a stunning collection Roger and your Poles look superb!!!
    Best regards
    Paul

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  8. Phil5 May 2012 at 11:18

    I must repeat what was said: those figs are really amazing, command stand of course...and the photos, also, are great!
    I'll come back, a wonderful work!

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  9. Unknown5 May 2012 at 12:48

    I came here via the link from Grossbeeren 1813. This is some bloody brilliant painting here. Nice table too.

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  10. RTB7 May 2012 at 11:14

    You are all too kind.
    It should be noted that Ken and I were rather ratted by about 4pm as we took our Russian roles to heart............Simon and Will hardly drank.............

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  11. William De Prêtre7 May 2012 at 15:43

    I was still recovering from the night before the battle!

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