British Napoleonic Horseguards (The Blues) Completed

These images have not come out as nicely as I would have liked, I am not sure why.... I did try to take an image of the full unit but I could not fit them into my Jerry built photo booth. As an aside, when I first started gaming with my group, the accepted basing size was 30mm frontage by 40mm depth for infantry and 40mm frontage by whatever depth was necessary (usually 50mm) for cavalry. At some point (I think when most of the guys collected ACW) they changed infantry to 40mm squares.

In recent years, our general acceptance of standardised basing seems to have gone by the wayside...Mark has used three bases of 60mm frontage per unit for some of his recent armies and our WWI and RCW have used the FoW 45mm x 20mm bases with three infantry on each...except for Julian, who used 40mm squares!

The point of this ramble is this....the Warlord boxes come supplied with plastic bases. These are 50mm square. For the Scots Greys, I cut off 10mm, so they have a 40mm frontage...but it was quite hard fitting the figures on...so with the Blues, I decided to just use the bases the way they come...my regiment will have a greater frontage but so what, it doesn't seem to worry anyone else! If it becomes a problem, I can put five bases at 250mm frontage against six at 240mm...close enough not to matter.

Anyway, here are the not so great images...hope you like them more than I did! Oh by the way the last image I took just so anyone who hasn't used thes figures before can see the (what I think is quite a nifty) way Warlord cast the "base" at the end of two of each horses feet....
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