Roll Call - Part Four - L'Armee Francais
Today, I have tried a new trick - taking the boxes outside into the bright Auckland sunshine, in the hope it will improve the quality of the images - I think it has worked!
Box One is the Light Cavalry - 1st and 5th Lancers and 1st and 22nd Chasseurs a Cheval. The Chasseurs are a combination of Minifigs and Battlefront Miniatures - the Minifigs are the oldest figures I own, dating back 40+ years to my teenage years! The lancers are a mixture of Front Rank and Connoisseur.
Box Two is La Garde - 2 battalions each of Front Rank Grenadiers a Pied and Chasseurs a Pied, Young Guard Voltiguers from Hinchcliffe, Polish and Dutch Lancers and a combined unit of Grenadiers a Cheval and Grenadiers d'Elite. The Dutch Lancers are also very old and were part of an "Army Deal" that cost about ten pounds when I bought them - I think the brand might have been Warrior Miniatures from Glasgow?
Box Three is the first of the infantry - these are the first figures I bought in New Zealand about 25 years ago - Front Rank from the old Marua Road Battlefront shop in Ellerslie. These are the 8, 10, 13, 21 and 45 Regiments de Ligne The limber is Minifigs and the Horse artillery is Conoisseur
Box Four is more infantry - these are all Front Rank, being the 2, 4, 13, 45 (AGAIN!), 46 de Ligne and the 1 Legere, plus a couple of commanders and guns.
Box Five is the Heavy cavalry, the 7 and 11 Cuirassiers and 1 and 27 dragoons. Some of one of the dragoon regiments are Minifigs and the Cuirassier regiment on the left by the guns are again from the Warrior army purchased in the late 1970's! One of the guns is also Minifigs from 40 years ago.
Box Sic is four battalions of Legere and an eclectic mix of figures - Foundry, Dixon and Front Rank. The gun is Dixon and the limbers Connoisseur and Hinchcliffe I think....
Three commanders - Soult, Napoleon (obviously!) and a Line Infantry colonel, all by Front Rank
Marshal Berthier, again by Front Rank.
That's it for today, will pull out another collection in a few days and add it to the list!
Another fine collection!
ReplyDeleteThankyou Jonathan - you always seem to be the first to comment - much appreciated!
ReplyDelete"Quelle superbe armée mon ami!"
ReplyDeleteMerci beaucoups Phil - J'apprécie vos gentils commentaires!
ReplyDeleteGreat collection of French Napoleonics! I'm just starting on mine, I've also got a load of Warrior landsknechts to do at some time.
ReplyDeleteBest Iain
Thanks Iain - I have a soft spo0t for these guys as my first "proper" wargames army was Napoleonic French - mostly Airfix but with a smattering of Minifigs , whose figures I always preferred to Hinchcliffe "back in the day" !
DeleteAnother lovely collection Kieth...
ReplyDeleteWhat’s not to like about Napoleonic French...
All the best. Aly
Cheers Aly - I really need some more cavalry to make this a more balanced force, but they are generally employed as part of a larger whole, combined with another gamers collection. If I was to use them in a one on one game, I think there are more than sufficient figures here.
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