French 1813 Finished! Huzzah! However, my photography (especially colour balancing) is worse than my painting. All Pendraken bar the caissons which are from Lancer Miniatures.

Elements of Lauriston's V Corps and Latour-Maubourg's I Heay Cavalry Corps.


Reserve artillery - a 12pdr and an 8pdr battery. 

Foot artillery have 4 horse limbers, horse artillery 6 horses per limber and heavy artillery require 8.

16th Infantry Div; Mandeville's Brigade of 152nd and 153rd (3 battalions each). 2 8pdr foot batteries are also attached, and in the background is a gaggle of ADCs.


16th Division; Revest's Brigade of 3 battalions of the 154th Regiment, plus attached cavalry brigade of 8 squadrons of Chasseurs from 3 regiments.


Latour-Maubourg and part of 1 Hvy Cav Corps. Pelletier's Lt Cav brigade of 4 squadrons of lancers and 2 of chasseurs; Doumerc's 3rd Heavy Cavalry Division of 6 squadrons of Cuirassiers  and 12 squadrons of dragoons - plus a horse artillery battery.

I have created a convention that heavy cavalry (proper heavy cavalry) ride black horses, so they stand  out on the table. 


Altogether 648 infantry and 320 cavalry; 5 batteries of artillery. Massively weighted in favour of cavalry - 32% when I usually aim for about 15% to 20% - but compared to the infantry, they were interesting to paint. 

A very impressive army! Over 1000 figures, excellent work. 

As to colour of photos - I've found that the green wargaming table seems to really confuse digital cameras - probably as there is just too much of one colour. Taking a photo a bit wider out to get some other items in the frame, then cropping can work quite well. 

Thank you Fred, I'll try that.

Very cool Nobby 

Terrific stuff, Nobby !

Excellent work Nobby!!!

Lovely work fsn 

I'm sure the Emperor approves of his new additions 

   

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Finished

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Finished

I'm sure this is finished in the typical wargamer's sense of a finished project. I.e. I have enough done to field a good sized force for a game, with options available, it doesn't mean that at some point in the future I might well find some extras that need adding. 

QuoteFinished! Huzzah!

I do not understand this concept of ... finished.

They look excellent Nobby, I am just finding the concept of "Finished" hard to process. 

Finish (v)

• bring (a task or activity) to an end; complete.
• complete the manufacture or decoration of (an article) by giving it an attractive surface appearance.
• transfer interest to another project, usually temporarily

I do realise I have no Guard in this formation. 

Quote from: fsn on 23 September 2024, 07:19:31 AM

• transfer interest to another project, usually temporarily

rising to permanent