AHPC15 - Retreat from Moscow - Limbo Bonus Round - Wagon's not so Ho! 25mm

The Abyss

First Circle: Limbo

This is where previous projects have stalled. Submit something that has been partially worked on from before. Yes, this can include terrain. :)

I've had these wagons for some time, they came to me from Dave Crook, who's friend Eric had passed on. Dave was helping Eric's widow sell on his massive collection. I already used some of the figures from this collection in previous Challenges. Some of my Ottoman's for example.

So here are two abandoned wagons, I'm not sure what make either are, to be honest?

The first bigger wagon, is a heavy lump of metal and include a dead horse and soldiers who sat down exhausted and never got up again.

The soldier is from Perry Miniatures and the horse is from Tiger Miniatures. Myself and Lee raided their bits box for a handful of horses that we could use as casualties. 

The horse needed quite a bit of filing to get him to lay down convincingly!

For the smaller wagon, again I'm not sure of the make? Or to be honest if it fits in with the 1812 period?

I've included another two dead figures, another chap who sat down and never got up, and another who fell.

So to the points....

20 points for the Limbo round = 20

2 x 25mm figures = 10

1 x 25mm dead figure = half points either 2 or 3, lets not do halves??

1 x 25mm horse - again 2 or 3 points?

2 x  25mm Wagons = 40pts 

( I do feel bad taking 40 points for the wagons, though????)

I'll leave the total to you Teemu.

Teemu gave me an extra 2 points!!

 

AHPC15 - Retreat from Moscow - Chasseurs a Pied 40 points

 

The best laid plans of mice and men!!

I was supposed to be keeping the majority of my French army to Ney's Third Army, but.......

well you've gotta paint some Guard haven't you?

I've called these the Chasseurs a Pied, but they could be any of the Guard regiments that were in Marshal Bessiers' Imperial Guard Army of 1812.

The figures are from North Stars Muskets & Tomahawks range of figures, unfortunately they only sell 3 units. The 8 figure Guard as seen here, an 8 figure Fusiler unit and a 6 figure Voltigeur unit, all of which will be seen at a later date.

Both Lee and myself bought movement trays for our troops, we were going to add them in as an entry during the Challenge, but when Curt disallowed terrain, we both satisfied our painting urge, by painting up all our bases beforehand. So each unit you see will have its own tray, which is great for storage purposes too!

Onto the points.

8 x 25mm figures @ 5pts each = 40pts!

AHPC 15 - Retreat From Moscow - Marshal Ney and chums. 25mm 23pts

Well hello once again fellow Challengers and thanks for taking a peek at my first entry into this years Challenge.

As you may be aware, fellow Posties Reject LeeH and myself are heading on a Retreat From Moscow adventure. Lee is painting up the Russians and already has a unit painted and posted. I'm doing the French!

And for my first figure I wanted to paint up Marshal Ney, who is synonymous as being the leader of the rearguard, during the retreat.

I was aware of a few other manufacturers, who make a Ney figures all dressed up and posed as in the famous painting by Adolphe Yvon. I chose the figure from the collection of Wargames Illustrated magazine as I think it just looks pretty darn cool.

So for the rest of my Sharpe Practice army I shall be filling out the ranks of Ney's Third Army. Which has a lot of non French units!! My plan is to have some units as actual units and some with the mixed rag tag look

Third Army Corps Marshal Ney

10th Div (Ledru)

Brig Gengoult: 24th Light Inf 4 batts, 1st Portuguese regt 2 batts
Brig Marion: 46th Line 4 batts
Brig Bruny: 72nd Line 4 Batts, 129th Line 2 Batts

11th Div (Razout)

Brig Joubert: 4th and 18th Line 4 Batts each
Brig: Compere: 2nd Portuguese regt 2 batts, Illyrian regt 4 Batts
Brig d’Henin: 93rd Line 4 Batts

25th Div (Marchand)

Brig v. Hugel: 1st and 4th Wurttemburg regts 2 Batts each
Brig v. Koch: 2nd and 6th Wurttemburg regts 2 Batts each
Brig v. Brusselle: 1st and 2nd Wurttemburg Jagers, 1st and 2nd Wurttemburg Light Inf, 2 Batts each, 7th Wurttemburg regt 2 Batts (joined in November)

Corps Cavalry (Wollwarth)

Brig Mouriez: 11th Hussars 4 Sqdns, 6th Chevau-Legers Lanciers 3 Sqdns
Brig v. Walseben: Wurttemburg Mouted Jagers 4 Sqdns, Leib-Chevaulegers (Wurttemburg) 4 Sqdns
Brig Beurmann: 4th and 28th Chasseurs a Cheval 4 Sqdns each
Brig v. Breuning: 1st Wurtemburg Chevaulegers 4 Sqdns, 3rd Wurttemburg Mouted Jagers 4 Sqdns

I did a bit of experimenting with some figures I had left over from my Haitian Revolution. To see how I could make up some Officers look a tad more chilly

I'm quite pleased with my efforts, if I say so myself. I do have loads of Officer figures to paint up, so this my go in the rank and file pile??

All three figures are from Essex Miniatures

And so to the points

4 x 25mm figures @ 5pts each

Gives me a total of 20 pts

Curt very kindly gave me an extra 3 points for the conversion work, giving me a total of 23 points. This put me in 30th place.