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Saturday 6 April 2013

Hat #8186 Peninsular War British Infantry

Hi everyone,

A nice Friday night here in Athens, after a long and tiring week in work and in other errants. One of them, was to paint something completely out of my league - figures from the Napoleonic Wars. I bought a kit of British Infantry yesterday, after a brief (in terms of convincing me) discussion I had with Dimitris, and today I am going to show you the result of my harvest.

I am not sure if I painted these two lads correctly (I told you, this thing is way out of my league, and for this reason I am going to paint just a few of them, only to be able to play SDS wargames with my friends).

I leave them to you to see if they were painted correctly. 
All in all, it was a nice experiment, even though it took me 1.5 hours to paint them both - gosh, I am starting to miss my good old drab WW2 figures... :-)















Have a great Friday night everyone - and, behave properly! ;-)
T.

26 comments:

  1. Perfect. I see you went for a Scottish regiment as well. Now I have to paint some Carabiniers for the next time you come over :)

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  2. They have turned out brilliantly Thanos, top drawer.

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  3. Lovely T! I know what you mean about he change from painting 20th Century figures mate.

    Well done!

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  4. They are excellent Thanos! Well done sir.

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  5. They look great Thanos!! Nice to see a bright colour on your blog instead of all those Khakis and greys. Keep it up Sir!!!

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  6. Nice work, Mr. T. Wow, there is a lot of colors on these uniforms.

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  7. Hi Thanos, great job, I think white pants would be more accurate for this uniform, the figs represent early Brits with the stove pipe shako, which is the uniform used for most of the Peninsula war, when the Brits changed to the Belgic shako, they change to grey pants, this info is of the top of my head and you would be best researching it yourself, as there are some instances of stove pipe and grey pants together, I believe there was 1 regt at Waterloo, that was allowed to retain the stove pipe.

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    1. Thanks Dan, your help is really appreciated. I am in the dark here, if you ask me.. :)

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  8. Hi Thanos, one more thing, the water bottle was light blue.

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  9. You have done a great job there T.
    Ah, this reminds me of why I stopped painting Napoleonics- so many fiddly bits!
    Dan's advice is excellent & in the Peninsular you could get away with putting some patches on the pants and giving some of them non issue fabric, especially if they are grizzled veterans. I also think that what they called the stock, that thing you can see in the gap at the collar, was black rather than white- and a nasty tight thing it was too by all accounts.
    The British were always my favourites and the Peninsular my favoured campaigning ground. I too have had a go at SDS, fun for a quick game, a bit like some of the skirmishes from the old Sharpe TV series.

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    1. I loved the series. I used to read all the books when I was a student. :) Thanks for the tip John! :)

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  10. great job. painting nappies is not easy... which is why I went back to moderns double quick, still the figs are there for me to paint, but yes they do take a very long time to paint.

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  11. What a departure Thanos and what a great job too. I love the uniforms of the period but my goodness they are detailed, so much to paint!

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    1. You are very polite Michael. Your work is simply stupendous! :) I am a mediocre painter compared to you. :)

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  12. These look great, most of us (me included) are vague about exactly how they should look so being 100% correct only matters if it bothers you, though getting it bang on is always a thrill so kudos to Dan for suppling the info.

    Ian

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    1. He is a great guy. I should follow his advice. :)

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  13. Fantastic looking models, nice work! I've never done napoleonics myself, although I have been tempted when reading the Sharpe books!

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  14. you have done an excellent job! I didn't know you started 18th century ! very pleasant surprise!

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    1. It's Dimitris fault. I promised to my self to paint only 20 figures and that's it. :)

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