The Black Legion

Well. I realised that I haven't blogged on here for a long time

Me and my crazy wargame buddies are planning to re-fight Quatre Bras in 2017 in 1/20 scale

As part of this project, I have agreed to paint a significant amount of Brunswick figures.

I have previously purchased and painted some Eagle Figures Dutch Jagers for the project and I was pleased with the results. Eagle Figures have just released a new range of Brunswick figures and I was keen to encorporate them into this project

When I attended Salute last week, they had a very generous buy 4 packs, get one free offer, so naturally I had to.

I also promised this blog because Kevin, our wargaming and painting leviathan is a die hard Perry figure painter, and I wanted to try promote Eagle Figures to him as an alternative.

I figure if I can persuade Kevin, I can persuade anyone.

So onto the figures.

I purchased some Perry and Eagle Figures Brunswick line infantry and also some Brunswick Artillery.

Brunswick Horse Artillery Figures from Eagle Figures

I have painted the gunners as I wanted to try out my painting black uniforms.

However photographing black was harder than I imagined.

I hope you like the figures

Then I thought I would do a direct comparison between the Eagle Figures line infantry and the Perry Line Infantry

Perry Miniature on the left, Eagle Figures Miniature on the Right

As you can see, both figures are a similar height and build and wouldn't look out of place side by side.

I would argue here that the sculpting is slightly clearer on the Eagle Figures miniature. What do you think?

Now on to the command stands - here are the command figures from Eagle Figures. There are two standard bearers, a drummer and an officer in each pack

Here the figures are photographed with the Perry Command Figures. In the Perry pack you get two officers, two standard bearers and two drummers.

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I think they would combine well in a unit and would be interested to hear your opinions.

Perry as we all know are available here  - usually in packs of six

Eagle Figures are available here- the packs I purchased were their battalion packs of 24 figures, priced at £25 each

The Artillery pack had 8 figures and 2 guns and was priced at £16.50

As always all comments and feedback welcome.

French Voltiguers

Chris mentioned we needed more French Skirmishers for the Waterloo game, so I dug about in the drawer and found these chaps to paint. Hope you enjoy. As always comments welcome.

Prussian Reserve Infantry Battalion

Had a bit of down time so painted up some Perry Prussians as a reserve infantry unit in "British" Uniforms

These have been painted as the 1st Battalion, 21st Infantry Regiment for the 100 days Waterloo Campaign.

These chaps are available to buy on eBay.
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Waterloo Project - New additions.

I have realised that for some reason I haven't updated my latest additions to the Waterloo project, here on my blog. So here goes.

I've done an extra flank company for the 27th Regiment of Foot. This is because in a big melee I lost track of which company was the Grenadier Company and which company was the Light Company. As you can see these figures are clearly identifiable as the Light Company. These figures are from the new Front Rank reinforcement packs.

You can also see the new light company of the Coldstream Guards which I've finished. These figures are x 24 plastic Warlord Game figures and the skirmishers are lead Warlord Figures and Plastic Perry Miniatures.

Finally,  I have also painted 12x French Dragoons. These Dragoons are the excellent Plastic Figures from Perry Miniatures!

I am seeing a light at the end of the tunnel for my Waterloo project painting now, and it's been great fun!

Waterloo Project - Test Game

Apologies in advance for this being photo heavy.

Back on March 1st we had a test game for the Waterloo project. Normally I leave updates for this to the excellent Chris Gregg and his blog, however I couldn't resist.

Hope you enjoy the photos guys!