Up to now my French artillery of the period has been manned by uniformed riders, this is of course wrong for batteries (both foot and horse) before 1800 when Bonaparte formally created the arm. Frankly I have been meaning to get around to this for ages and have finally got them done. Not the best focused of my photographs but I can't be arsed to do them again so there you go.
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Dave.
Handsome civilian artillery drivers, glad to look at something different, they look superb!
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Deleteexcellent looking gun teams Dave. Most of my artillery drivers are in 'mixed' dress but a few need to be civilianised.
ReplyDeleteThanks Colin, all the best for the festive season.
DeleteSplendid addition to the look of the FRW game! Happy Christmas to you and yours also.
ReplyDeleteThanks David, all the best.
DeleteI really like the use of colour to add variety into a limited number of figures, they look great. I'd have been tempted to try and modify one to match the black driver on the piebald horse in Lejeune's fabulous painting of Marengo.
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