Friday 3 January 2014

2nd Regiment Old Guard Grenadiers

Here we have 1st and 2nd battalions of the 2nd Regiment of Grenadiers - apart from the mounted AB colonel these are old glory 15mm, the flags are by Maverick Models. I must apologise for the quality of the photographs, again I can't seem to get the lighting just right. The campaign of 1814 saw Napoleon increasingly use his guard regiments as front line troops due to manpower shortages, they were used to either clinch a victory or to escape from a battlefield by the skin of his teeth.

For all my guard units I use the 1804 french flag as it makes them quite distinctive from the line units, which all have the 1812/1815 flag. As I uploaded the photos I noticed I forgotten to paint the red sash of the ensign. hence the 1st photograph was taken on my work bench. I painted them them with white summertime gaiters as I prefer these to the black winter ones.
























10 comments:

  1. Well done Ken, a great paintjob for great troops!

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  2. Great looking bearskins! What is more impressive than the Old Guard. Best, Dean

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  3. Great looking figures Ken, I thought the pics were quite good, nothing wrong with them at all??

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  4. The Guard looks very impressive!

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  5. There's nothing quite like the guard, and these are excellent Ken!

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  6. Nicely done Ken, the OG guard are nice figures.
    Cheers
    Paul

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  7. Beautifully tempting. I really must do my Saxons first ;-)

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  8. Ken, Very nice OG OG!! I think your pictures are fine - much better than most of my poor efforts! And I admire your productivity which is so much higher than my own.
    Malc

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  9. Thanks very much for the kind words gentlemen!

    Ray, the original pictures were a bit blurry and made worse by bad lighting so I took some of them again!

    Paul, I only bought these figures because of the splendid paint job your nephew did on his!

    LittleArmies, I tend to put in a few hours at a time - usually while I'm waiting for the basing of one unit drying (I use no-more-nails) I'm starting something else.

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  10. I should also add that I've obviously given the 2nd battalion an eagle whereas in reality there was just one for each regiment!

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