Since it would be churlish to comment on the fact that it
took Royal Mail’s guaranteed-next-day Special Delivery service two days to get
the thing here, I shall simply state that I was very pleased to get a parcel this morning from Norfolk. Inside were all sorts of good things – converted Hinton Hunt models, the work of the esteemed
Pete Bateman, and all for my Peninsular War armies.
There is something very pleasing about good conversions
based on Hinton Hunt figures – I don’t have a great many, but they always feel
like the sort of thing a proper
wargames army should have (strong echoes of Peter Gilder), they bring a unique
element and some welcome variety to the forces in The Cupboard, they provide
troop types which otherwise would not be available and – especially if they are
the work of someone with a lot more skill than I have – they are interesting
and good to look at. Also, because this lot are individually converted, heads are all at slightly different angles and each figure is a character in his
own right.
I’ve started basing and organising the new arrivals, and
here’s some early results, which I’m very happy with. I have two new light
cavalry units for the Spanish army, which fill a very prominent gap in the OOB.
[Please note that my artificial light
photos have started washing out red tones again – the paint is much brighter
than this, and the reds are RED.] The horsemen in green are the Voluntarios de Espana, who, despite
their name, are an old-established unit of regular Cazadores a Caballo. The
other fellows are the Husares de
Extremadura, formerly known as the Husares
de Maria Luisa – I have no idea why they changed their name – maybe Maria
Luisa lost them at cards. Both these units fought throughout the war, and they
are presented here with hats which would fit any period from 1810 onwards. They
have no flags yet, but I’m working on it.
There are also some cheerfully eccentric Spanish staff
figures...
...and an interesting custom figure for General Von
Neuenstein, who commanded a Confederation brigade in the Armée du Centre. Von
Neuenstein is, authentically, wearing the uniform of a general officer of the
Duchy of Baden – HH enthusiasts will spot that part of him may have been
Russian in a previous existence!
Tomorrow, time permitting, there are some artillery and
logistics items to sort out, so this is a particularly good parcel. Unpacking
this lot has been just like Christmas...
The general in this picture has appeared here before, and there was some helpful discussion of how I could use him. Generals on foot have always been a problem for me, since I find it unlikely that even infantry generals would have led their men into action on Shanks's pony.
As a result of suggestions made, I resolved to get him a held horse to add a little potential mobility, and I have finally done it. You can't rush these things, of course.
This is Sir Nathaniel Aspinall, known to his men as The Thunderer, and occasionally God's Trumpet - I sincerely hope this was because of his very loud voice. A noted lay preacher, and sometime Member of Parliament for Bury, in the Hundred of Salford, Sir Nathaniel was unusually well qualified to be a general of foot, since he had served some years of his youth as a professional soldier in Germany in the Wars of Religion.
He is here seen with his horse, Herod, and a horse-holder who was formerly in the artillery. Hinton Hunts to a man - or horse.
This sets a useful precedent - I'm quite pleased with Sir Nat (this is about as close to a diorama as you get in my armies), and will follow a similar grouping style with other suitable Staff castings which I have.
A small landmark today - still maintaining strict parity (8 units of foot for each side), I've now completed the infantry target for the first phase (you mean there will be a second?) for my ECW project.
Here are the Royalist greencoats of Broughton and Gibson, on the left, and the Parliamentarian units of Brereton and Mainwaring. Dragoons and artillery are coming along, and recruitment of cavalry will continue for a while.
The odd lighting in the photos is the result of a strange luminous object appearing in the sky over South-East Scotland today. I feel an inexplicable urge to rush out and sacrifice a lamb, or a maiden or something.
I was listening earlier to a discussion on the radio - some people were complaining that a ceremonial funeral for Lady Thatcher seemed a bit of an extravagance in the current economic situation. I think it is an excellent idea - in fact, I think they should break with tradition and hold the procession in Leeds, or maybe Glasgow, so that her loyal former subjects can take the opportunity to show their gratitude and affection.
Firstly, here are two new foot units for my ECW armies. The grey chaps are the Parliamentarian regiment of Colonel John Moore (that's John Moore of Bankhall, Kirkdale, Lancashire - noted as the Parliament diarist and regicide - everyone should have a hobby), and the others are the Royalists of Robert Byron (brother of Lord John). I liked the officer, who reminds me a bit of the Mouseketeers (out of Tom and Jerry? - en garde, Monsieur Pussy-Cat). He is from SHQ, and is a fair enough match for his men, who are Les Higgins castings - it is reasonable that he should eat better than the rank and file.
I had a nice email from Amanda, in Sweden, asking me if I could put some more of my home-made flags on the blog again. Always happy to oblige, here are the flags for today's new units. If they are useful to you, please feel free to use them - enlarge the image and download the big version. I print the image at 51mm high, which suits my men, who are a little smaller than 1/72 scale. Please remember that these are complete bunkum - just a guess. The colonel's colour for Moore's shows the family crest.
I've been doing a little more work on the proposed trip to the Danube, pencilled in for September now. Current outline is to fly to Vienna, hire a car and drive to Regensburg for 3 days, then return to Vienna for a further 4 days. The first part of the trip aims to take in Ingolstadt (maybe), Abensberg, Landshut and Eggmuhl, with appropriate intake of cream cakes, coffee and beer. Vienna has so much to offer that we don't really know what our priorities are yet, but cakes and beer will figure there also. Work continues.
I dug out an old map of Germany, and found that it is the Baedeker one I bought in preparation for a family holiday in Bernkastel, on the Mosel, in 1987. Which means, of course, that it shows the border between East and West Germany - my son was fascinated that there was a border around Berlin. How time passes - and how odd that all seems now.
This afternoon I gave up on any outside jobs, and finished off and based a further two units of Foot. Here are Robert Ellice's RoF [R], with the red flag, who have rather unwisely allowed Philip Egerton's [P] to stand behind them.
The armies are shaping up nicely now - the artillery needs to catch up a bit, but I'm almost ready for a group photo. There's still a fair way to go, but I'm pleased with progress. First anniversary of the ECW lead mountain will be in March, so by my standards this is all very rapid indeed. I want to try to finish this first phase by the end of the Summer (which seems remote enough at the moment to be a safe target).
My starting OOB will have each army comprising 8 foot, 6 (or maybe 7) horse, a unit of dragoons and some artillery. I am also thinking about a unit of firelocks for the Royalists and a clubmen-type militia unit for the Parlies, but I'm still working out what figures would work for those. I recently received a photo of some very interesting Scottish foot figures from Old John, so there may be an extension to the shopping list.
Two more cavalry units are away to be painted, so I may be getting far enough ahead of myself now to think seriously about getting some ECW buildings ready. One big obstacle to starting that at present is that all my scenic paints (mostly Dulux emulsion) are Mediterranean-type shades, so I must put together a list of more mossy, thatchy, slatey colours and go and visit my nearest colour-matching service in Dunbar. 250ml sample pots are the boys.
Late Edit: I forgot to mention that if anyone is interested in 20mm ECW figures, Old John has the Les Higgins range in full production, plus the Marlburians and lots of other 20mm wargame figures. Please contact him through his blog.
First off, Happy New Year to everyone who is kind enough to
drop in here. I hope your year is good – in my own case, I am hoping for a
rather more satisfying year than 2012, which was a kind of not-quite year – a
lot of minor things that didn’t go too well, and then there was the weather,
which I have decided to take as a personal affront. However – I’m still here
and still fighting, and each day is the start of the rest of your life, as a former
work-colleague used to have written on a poster above his desk for a while.
Come to think of it, that same fellow is no longer with us – he drowned himself
in a freezing Scottish loch not long after he retired, so let’s gloss over that
quickly – inappropriate recollection.
This morning, Amazon emailed me to ask me if I would care to
rate my recent purchase of a pot of red GW paint – did it meet my expectations?
Pretty much, yes. They also suggested that, since I recently purchased CDs of the
Esbjorn Svensson Trio and some concerti by Telemann, I obviously like music and
thus might be interested in a new album from One Direction. Now that is impressive
lateral thinking, but no.
Last night I spent 40 minutes on the static exercise bike,
in the interests of getting the blood thinned down a bit after Cholesterolfest.
Went OK – backed off a bit towards the end to keep my pulse under 140bpm, but
no problems, and it was good for the first of a new series. To avoid spending
my time on the bike thinking “Good grief
– still 29 minutes to go....”, I watched one of my library of approved exo-bike
movies. Last night I watched the first half of The Charge of the Light Brigade – that’s the 1968 one with David
Hemmings. I haven’t watched it for ages, and it’s a bit dated now, but still
pretty good. The relationship between Hemmings, Vanessa Redgrave and the other
fellow is what I would describe as uninterestingly soppy – not very engaging,
and I couldn’t really care much about the characters themselves. The military
bits are nicely done, but what really compromises it for me is that it comes
from a period when all British films used the same short list of actors, and I
find it distracting to keep noticing that the sergeant major used to be in The Onedin Line on TV, for example.
It may have been a "brilliant moment of madness" - it could even have been
a "mad moment of brilliance" - but such moments are fairly commonplace
on my tabletop, I think
The whole thing is rescued by Trevor Howard as Lord
Cardigan, who presents the most wonderful portrayal of a pure bastard it is
possible to imagine. I know it’s all going to end in tears, but I’ll watch the
rest of the story on my next pedalling session tonight. After the Crimean
unpleasantness, I think I’ll watch Tom Berenger as Longstreet again – yes –
haven’t seen that for a while either.
In this rather disjointed not-quite-holiday period as the
world gets revved up again, there is an opportunity to revisit all those
wargaming background projects which seem to grind on forever. One such is the
box of bits which I have earmarked to complete my collection of limbers and logistics
vehicles for my Napoleonic armies. Although it comes under the general heading
of Mucking About, every so often I
open up all the little margarine boxes and switch things around to make sure I
have the best combinations of parts for the various units. I still have to
paint up limbers, teams and drivers and pulled guns for all the French
artillery – which is 3 foot batteries at 2 horses each and 2 horse batteries at
4 horses each. I also have outstanding limber teams for one Italian foot
battery, three Spanish regular, a Spanish volunteer one and one for the Duchy
of Stralsund-Ruegen.
Then there’s two more British caissons and two French ditto
to finish off, a couple of odd wagons and a bunch of pack mules to paint up.
It’ll all get done in time – maybe this year – I got a fair amount of this
stuff completed last year, so there’s no stress!
The bits are all-sorts – limbers are a mixture of Hinchliffe
20, early Lamming and some Minifigs 20mm, cannons are similar, plus a few Les
Higgins. Horses and drivers are Lamming, Scruby, S-Range and Alberken, and I
even have a few rather posh Art Miniaturen teams for the French line. The mules
and oxen are mostly Jacklex, and the Spanish muleteers are Hinton Hunts. Should
be fine.
Going through the boxes reminded me (not that I had forgotten, of course) that I have
a couple of really nice Minifigs kits to make up – a general’s carriage and a
French flying ambulance – I really must get on with those – I’ll enjoy that.
General's carriage - all bits present
Ambulance-in-a-bag
And, of course,
having counted, examined, swapped and generally fiddled with all the bits, they
all went back into the plastic tubs and back into the big box marked Napoleonics until next time....
Good fun though, and it avoids doing anything really useful.
Also, I have a vague feeling that talking about it here makes it more likely I
will do something about it soon, but don’t hold your breath.
It's taken me longer than usual to get these finished off and based up, but here are Lord Byron's Regt of Foot [R], with the red flag, and Col Richard Holland's Regt [P], from Manchester.
They are sitting on the board from a vintage-1978 Ariel game I obtained on eBay, just to make a change from the usual utilitarian cork mat.
I regret that the flash has washed out the colours a bit, but you get the idea.
Another two units of foot ready for action - here are (in the red) Sir Thomas Tyldesley's Regiment [R] and John Booth's Regiment [P]. Just for a change, the Hinton Hunt unit are the Royalists this time, the Parlies being (mostly) Les Higgins.
I find that I'm still doggedly making sure that the two armies build up at the same pace - it occurred to me today that it must be important for some reason. Since I am still some way short of being able to stage an actual battle, I'm not sure why I am being so careful to keep everything in step. Not to worry - I'm happy with progress, which continues to be steady rather than dramatic.
I now have six units of foot ready (3 each, naturally) and two of cavalry (even split, again), plus a few general officers. There are another two units of horse and two more of foot ready for painting, so I guess the lead mountain must be getting smaller.
My traditional terminology - "Ready to go in The Cupboard" as a euphemism for "Ready to Fight" - is not applicable to my ECW troops, since they do not live in The Cupboard - they are kept in a series of nice, new, pink box files!
I need to get the painting desk returned to its alternative role of living room bureau, so have been tidying up and putting the pots away. I took the opportunity - since it might be the last for a week or more - to paint another general. Simplest paint job I've done in years, but I really like this little figure, which I was first introduced to by Clive a couple of years ago.
This is REW57, Hinton Hunt's super little Puritan Roundhead General on Foot. Could it be that old Marcus had a sense of humour after all? There will not be a lot of smiling in this man's army, thank you very much...
Dressed to kill - but the blackened armour top would be a nightmare in the sun, and the bucket-top boots are a potential disaster in heavy rain (even when turned down at the knee for such conditions). Fashions change, but, if I was presenting myself as a hard case, I'm not sure I'd put a cake doily around my neck.
However, I'm not going to tell him myself.
I don't know yet how - or if - I might use generals on foot. It makes sense that a staff group would be on foot, but I'm not comfortable with the idea of a brigadier - even an infantry one - marching in with his men. Maybe a held horse? Maybe a standard bearer, or an aide? I'll think about it. He can stay on the bottle top until I have a better idea how to base him.
More of the same - this time Hinton Hunt's Royalist general figure. Here you see Sir Michael Earnley telling his men exactly where he wants the picnic lunch set out.
I am very fond of this classic little casting - I always have been. There is something about the styling and the poise that always puts me in mind of Alec Guinness as Charles I in the Cromwell movie - I can almost hear that Prime of Miss Jean Brodie accent. As ever, I find the Hintons hard to paint well - items like shoulder belts are kind of implied rather than obvious in the casting - too subtle for me? - but this chap is pleasing.
Overall, I'm not sure. I have a few HH general officer figures to paint, including the Roundhead one in the helmet. The figures are nice enough, but maybe a little bland - it's a personal thing (as always), but I like my generals to be definite personalities. And then there's the thing with Marcus Hinton's little legs...
Very short post this afternoon. I thought I would come clean about another instance of an unspeakable practice - converting Hinton Hunt figures. The particular case in point is the ECW standard bearer.
I have never really cared for HH standard bearers with their cast flags - it's a personal thing. Mostly this is because I am not a good enough painter to paint a pleasing flag (I had some disastrous, embarrassing failures with ACW Union flags in my formative years), but it's also because the figure is very top-heavy, and has an inconveniently extended base, which impacts on unit spacings. So I snips em, don't I?
I remove the flag, shorten his base, clean up his shoulder and remodel the brim of his hat (the cast flag is integral with the hat), then drill out the bearer's hand and superglue a metal pole in place and the job is done. I've done this enough times now to be getting comfortable and quick with it, and I'm pleased with the results (although it will certainly earn me black marks in the Great Book of Hinton).
The example shown here is the Royalist CEW2, before and after, but the procedure is exactly the same for the Parliamentarian REW2. All complaints to Chateau Foy, please, on used £10 notes.
I made a slow job of finishing them off, what with Hadrian's Wall and other interruptions, but here's two new regiments of foot - pretty similar to the last two, really. The chaps in green are Tillier's Regt (R), veterans of the wars in Ireland - these are Les Higgins figures, apart from a converted Hinton Hunt ensign and an SHQ officer.
The other lot are Ralph Ashton's Regt (P), in a fine shade of LMS red, which this very old schoolboy feels is entirely appropriate for a Lancashire unit (in a rather convoluted way - if you have no idea what I'm talking about, it doesn't matter, it would take too long to explain). Ashton's men are Hinton Hunts apart from the Higgins drummer. As has become my standard practice, I've modified the standard bearer, removing the cast metal flag and the giant base, and fitting a wire staff.
The planned pikes made from my new brown florist's wire were abandoned very quickly - the brown-covered wire is thinner than the normal green wire, is not rigid enough and didn't even cut nicely, so I'm back to the green wire, which requires painting and varnishing, as before. Another wizard wheeze bites the dust...
With luck, I should have yet another two units fettled and ready for painting by the end of this weekend, so by my own pedestrian standards I'm fairly rattling along!
It feels as though it's taken a long time, though in fact it is only 4 months since I bought my first ECW figures. Here are the first signs of something real happening - the first two units of foot.
My intention has been to make my units as generic as possible, for the most part, and to build up OOBs suitable for the fighting in Lancashire, Cheshire and North Wales around 1644. Just to be difficult, one of the first two units is identifiable from its flag as Prince Rupert's Blewcotes, which is hardly generic, but the other - though nominally Alexander Rigby's Regt, will work nicely as a general-purpose Northern whitecoat unit. Rigby's were Parliamentarians, by the way. The blue regiment consists of Les Higgins figures, apart from the standard bearer, who is a modified Hinton Hunt chap. The whites are Hintons apart from the Higgins drummer. The close-up of the Les Higgins pikemen is intended to give an idea why I wanted to work in this scale, and why I am so fond of this maker.
Thus far, to show for my new period, I have one-and-a-half sets of rules (the figures are based for Victory without Quarter), a whole new lead mountain (with the familiar nagging ache which that brings), a resin mountain of Hovels' period buildings to be painted (15mm, naturally), and a pile of notebooks and rough jottings. I also have had a great amount of advice and help from a number of very generous people, and it is largely down to them that I now have two actual units.
As a rough aim, I hope to add about 2 units a month - I'm sure I won't keep to that, but that's the idea. I certainly have a pile of figures to be working on.
I'm very pleased to have these finished, but they can't do much fighting yet, and to a small extent I am wondering what the fuss was about. I have grown used to looking at pictures of 28mm ECW figures painted by Clarence Harrison and others, and my own little 20mm fellows are rather plain in comparison, but I am still happy to have decided to go with the 20s. It has taken a long time to decide on unit organisation, collect together appropriate mixtures of castings, research the thorny subject of size comparisons between makers and - especially - to try to build (from scratch) some idea of the history and the uniforms. More to follow.
A quick note on the subject of pikes. Of course, I have no experience of 20mm scale pikes, and I have had a lot of excellent help from John C and Pjotr and others on the subject. For a while I was searching all over South-East Scotland for a yard brush with brown PVC bristles, and I am still looking, but it appears that for some reason the public only buy brushes with red bristles. The idea of PVC pikes is appealing, but painting them is not. In the end I have used 20-gauge florist's wire, which is cheap [cue bagpipes], stiff enough to stay straight, unlikely to wound anyone, and just about thin enough to look OK. The stuff I am using is coated green, and thus required painting and varnishing, but I have some brown wire on order. I am learning. My pikes are 65mm long, which is about 15'6" in scale, which is on the short side, but they look OK, and - most importantly - anything longer will not fit in the designated box files!
Pikes are a slightly emotive subject. Some of my very early prejudices against Ancient and Medieval wargaming (apart from pontificating experts) had a lot to do with S-Range warriors with silly little legs and enormous helmets, armed with the proverbial telegraph poles. Yes, I know this was unreasonable, and people pay fortunes for these self-same figures now, but little things like this stick in the mind. I was very keen not to use over-thick pikes if it could be avoided.
I'm currently doing some conversion work and painting to get a supply of command figures for my next lot of Spanish line infantry, and in the breaks - since I have the brushes and the tools out - I am taking the opportunity to do a few other bits and pieces. Tidying up, finishing things off - that sort of stuff.
Here is an example. This, you will see, is a British artillery caisson. I have a few such caissons, and there are still a couple more to be finished. Most of them are models by Lamming - the older the better, to get the scale right. This one is slightly different - the limber and the caisson (actually, I think it is officially an Ammunition Car) are both from the lovely old Hinchliffe 20mm series - long gone; the horses are Hinton Hunt, the driver is a converted Minifigs S-Range RHA gunner. Nothing particularly notable in the mix, I think you will agree - all the castings date from the 1970s. If you were to be a little fussy, you might suggest that the horses are a tad small for the rest of the kit, but that is certainly my fault for removing them from their bases in 1972. Anyway, you wouldn't suggest it out loud.
That is the point - the horses and the limber have been attached to this plywood base since late 1972. When I switched my house standard from 2 gun limbers per battery to just one, I had a few spare limbers like this kicking around the place. Last year I got hold of a matching caisson from the same maker and the same vintage, and added a suitable driver. Some very slight freshening of the paint on the original bits and here you are - a brand new addition to my Allied artillery which has only been 40 years in the completion.
I've now received figure samples from SHQ (Kennington) for their 20mm ECW range, and I like them. They are somewhat chunkier in stature than Les Higgins or Hinton Hunt, but the height is pretty close, and (very importantly!) the horses and the hats match the other two ranges.
The logic may seem a bit oblique, but the more compatible ranges I can find, the happier I am with my choice of Higgins as the main basis of my proposed armies. I have spent too many of my Napoleonic years backed into corners, stuck with little or no choice, and dependant on a small number of extinct manufacturers! Choices are good for covering gaps in ranges, and for maintaining welcome variety and interest in the armies.
Thus far, I reckon that SHQ, LH and HH cavalry can mix without problem. LH and HH infantry can mix pretty well, and SHQ infantry would be OK on the same table, though maybe better in separate units - in truth, it appears to vary between individual figures, so a bit of judgement will be needed (uh-oh, that might be a problem...)
So? Pleased with what I've found so far - all I need now is to firm up my ideas on unit organisation and basing, to work out quantities and shopping lists, and I'm in business. Well, sort of.
Here are figures from Irregular (their Restoration range), Hinton Hunt and Les Higgins. The figure marked with a carat on the right hand end is one of the first batch of LH officers, which are smaller.
Hinton Hunt probably very slightly larger than Higgins, but the hats and horses match - near enough for me, I think.
For me, the personalities in my wargames armies are important. It is always a source of extra satisfaction if there is a customised drummer in this regiment, or an odd figure with a bit of history in that one. One of my French infantry battalions, for example, has - completely out of context - a mounted officer from the first box of Airfix Waterloo French I ever bought. After a period when I have systematically cleared out and replaced all the figures which were substandard, and bought in all sorts of prestigious castings from Jorg Schmaeling and so on, I deliberately retained that one Airfix officer as a memorial to the early days of my armies, when Airfix formed most of what I had.
Non-regulation hat
In a similar vein, I am always on the lookout for unusual staff figures - it is not so easy to believe in your generals if they are all very obviously identical brothers, from the same mould. Here's a new chap - a French General de Brigade wearing an infantry shako - form your own explanation why he chooses to wear his lucky hat (or whatever) - this is clearly Hinton Hunt FN224 with a new head. I am reluctant to hack up old HH figures myself, but am always pleased to buy in conversions which someone else has done, to add variety - I like this little chap.
Late edit, to oblige Louis - as requested, here is the old Airfix mounted officer in the 2/27e Ligne. This entire brigade used to be Airfix - the officer must date from the very early 1970s - you will note that in those days I was keen enough to replace sword-blades with dressmaking pins. To heighten the contrast, I see that the Les Higgins rank and file are now augmented by distinctly up-market eagle-bearer and drummer from Art Miniaturen.
Some recent acquisitions. Two of the brigade commanders in my Allied army are mounted Rifles officers - a rarity in 20mm. After many years of failing to find suitable figures, and a couple of rather so-so attempts to produce suitable conversions, I have finally commissioned some professional work. I am pleased with them – worthy additions, I think - the donor figures are Hinton Hunt, which will offend some as butchery, though it is an old and distinguished tradition. If Marcus had produced such a figure in the first place, this would not be necessary – and one of the reasons he didn’t is probably because he assumed this sort of DIY effort would fiill the gap!
It is interesting to try to spot the original figures - my initial guess is Stapleton Cotton and (possibly) Junot, with new heads and new horses, but you may have alternative ideas. Anyway, it wasn't me, so I don't know for sure. I also received a nicely finished DN31 (Dutch-Belgian general), who will be surprised to find himself leading a Portuguese cavalry brigade in the near future.
These are my forces to fight on the side of King Joseph. I have a brigade of the King's Guard (uniformed very like the French Imperial Guard), plus a brigade of Line troops.
Here's the Guard.
Two battalions of Grenadiers (Les Higgins figures, with the odd Hinton Hunt and mounted colonels by Art Miniaturen)...
...two battalions of Fusiliers (same mix of figures)...
...a single battalion of Voltigeurs (same again)...
...a horse artillery battery (PMD)...
...and skirmishers (Les Higgins).
Now the Line brigade.
A single battalion of the 1st Light regiment (Castilla) (Higgins figures with some Kennington command)...
...two battalions of the 2nd Line (Toledo) (Higgins with Kennington command and NapoleoN drummers)...
...a single battalion of the Regiment Royal-Etranger (Falcata figures, with a Scruby OPC mounted colonel)...
...and skirmishers from the 1st Light (Kennington).
In an ideal world, I'd like to add a hussar unit, but that is in the pending folder. I also have plans to add a standing figure (probably) of King Joseph himself, with a carriage, all ready to get captured at Vitoria. I wonder if Musket Miniatures do a 20mm chamber pot?
