Wednesday, 22 January 2025

AHPC15 - Retreat from Moscow - 4th Wurttemburg Infantry

 


The Retreat from Moscow project is coming along nicely. Here we have an 8 figure detachment from the 4th Wurttemberg regiment, that was part of Ney's Third Army, 25th Division, under Brigadier von Hugel.


There are a few companies that make some superb Wurttemberg figures, but alas none of them are in the much needed greatcoats!!


Some some drastic action was required!!!


I bough a few packs of Wargames Foundry French in greatcoats and in true French fashion began chopping off heads!! Replacing them with heads from the old Connoisseur range, now sold by Bicorne Miniatures.


I didn't want to use all the Foundry figures otherwise they would all look the same, so I included 3 plastic Perry figures and one Perry metal figure. I also added a scarf in the 4th facing colours to the only marching figure.

So onto the points...
Pretty simple this one, 8 x 25mm figures at 5 points each
40 points
And if I'm lucky Teemu might give me a few extra points for the conversion work???

Teemu did, he gave me an extra 2 points taking my total to 42pts, putting me in 23rd place at the time of posting on a total of 170 points, (I'm now in 29th as of today)



28 comments:

  1. Excellent work, Ray! “Chopping off heads” in French fashion made me laugh. Good one!

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  2. Great looking troops, Ray! A great addition to the interesting project.

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  3. Head chopping seems very appropriate to be able to use those cool headgear. Really liking that scarf too.

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  4. They have turned out really well Ray, very nice job on them.

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  5. A nice mixture of manufacturers in there Ray, but with your conversions they go together really well.

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  6. Another nice bit of conversion work there, Ray!

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  7. Egads, dedicated conversion work there! Nice attention to detail, can imagine you will have a great background to you games.

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  8. Excellent looking conversions Ray…
    A fine piece of constructive decapitation .

    All the best. Aly

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  9. I can feel the cold of those poor PBI. Lovely job as usual.

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  10. These photos are so atmospheric. You can imagine the Cossacks waiting to set upon them!

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  11. Chopping off heads, how very French! Nice work on those figures Ray!

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