28mm ACW Union and Confederate infantry (Perry miniatures plastics)

Here are some Perry miniatures plastics which I painted for someone in the USA.

28mm Perry miniatures ACW plastic infantry

28mm Napoleonic French Gendarme à Cheval (Bicorne miniatures)

These are 28mm Napoleonic French Gendarme à Cheval. The metal is from Bicorne miniatures. These are unusually fine figures in these days of chubby recruits.

 28mm Napoleonic French Gendarme à Cheval

28mm Napoleonic Russian Grodno Hussars

These are my Napoleonic Russian Grodno Hussars. The metal is from Elite miniatures. You can find something about the history of the regiment here. They were formed in 1806 with squadrons from other Hussar regiments and finished the war being awarded the Military Order decoration. Later they were taken into the Guard.

28mm Napoleonic Russian Grodno Hussars

28mm Napoleonic Russian Ural Cossacks

These 28mm Napoleonic Russian Ural Cossacks are from Elite miniatures. When I couldn't find Cossacks in these uniforms I contacted Peter Morby who kindly supplied me with the plate he based the uniform on. Contacting the designer can be handy when you don't know how to paint something!

They are a nice irregular unit to break up the solid blue of my Don Cossacks.

28mm Napoleonic Russian Ural Cossacks

28mm Napoleonic Russian Militia armed with Muskets

"The bullet is a mad thing; only the bayonet knows what it is about,"

"Attack with the cold steel! Push hard with the bayonet!"

General Alexander Vasilyevich Suvorov

These lads are very forward with the bayonet but they can't shoot for toffee! The figures are from Elite miniatures. I have four of these and another four armed with pikes.

Elite miniature 28mm Napoleonic Russian Militia armed with muskets

28mm Napoleonic Russian Musketeers, Grenadiers, Jagers in greatcoats with skirmishers

Here are some more of my Elite miniatures Russians. These chaps are in great coats (except for the skirmishers). I have 23 battalions of line in great coats and another four militia armed with muskets. They won't all fit into my light box at once. I also have 36 skirmishers.

I've finished 4 units of Guard and 8 or so line in regular uniforms. I think the pictures of these are on the blog. All in all there are 70-80 units of Russian infantry. I guess I have done almost half.

I like to do quite a few shades and colours of great coats in order to make these units look interesting. The hat lace style is something I picked up from Mansfield wargamers when doing Russians. As you can see, Elite have some figures in fatigue caps and with bare heads which also looks nice. There is a lot of great stuff in the Elite miniatures range. The figures are not well known. So they are nice to have on the table. There is an Elite miniatures (HQ) in the UK and another in Australia.

Elite miniatures 28mm Russian line infantry and skirmishers

Württemberg Jäger zu Pferd Regiments Herzog Louis and König

These lovelies are from Firing line miniatures (Bicorne miniatures sell them). I love an umlat in the morning - so much so that I've ended up doing the Württemberg cavalry with Front Rank as well as Firing line miniatures. Not sure if I've taken snaps of the Front Rank yet. I have a lot of photos yet to upload, so they could be in there.

The nice thing about Firing line is that the heads are separate which makes it easier to convert them. Firing line sell separate heads. You can get baldies and beardies as well as guys in forage caps and with bandaged heads.

Württemberg Jäger zu Pferd Herzog Louis

Württemberg Jäger zu Pferd König

Both units together. Chaaaaaaarge!

Württemberg Jäger zu Pferd Regiments Herzog Louis and König