Spanish Napoleonic Line Infantry (24 Figures) plus Infantry General on horse with ADC Ensign on horse

Front Rank Miniatures provide really great miniatures and after my first 6 test miniatures I ordered the whole Line, a General and one which is normally a cavalry ensign. I loved the horses pose so much so that I adjusted the ensign to ADC of the general.

24 Line Infantry
2 Horses
1 General of the infantry
1 Ensign on horse

A couple of words on painting Napoleonic Miniatures

Nearly one year ago I started painting my own miniatures for playing wargames. Having done such a thing never before I used to learn painting by try and error and often find myself repainting my miniatures then I developed a new technic.


My miniature 28mm soldiers are mainly manufactured by the British companies Front Rank, Perry Miniatures and Victrix. I use Vallejo and Games Workshop paints for the figures and  for the horses.

Are my figures completely accurate? Well, although my philosophy is to get them as close to accurate as possible, there are limits imposed by the actual castings and the small amount of reference material I have available. But bear in mind that an infantry battalion of only 24 men is not accurate in itself, so other small errors pale into insignificance in comparison!
I don't actually get to use these figures in many wargames, but when I do, the rules I use are Black Powder.

My figures have not been specifically based for any set of rules, but instead use base-sizes that I find visually pleasing and leave room for any possibility arising. This means I do a one-to-one basing with 20mm x 20mm (single figure) for infantry and the fiting sizes for cavaly and artillery.

One last point - it is notoriously difficult to photograph the colour blue accurately. The colour of the uniform coats in the photographs on this site varies from picture to picture, and often looks much lighter than on the actual figures themselves. So please do not rush to email me to tell me my shade of blue is wrong!

British Napoleonic (45th Nottinghamshire) line infantry unit post-1812 (24 figures)

I got the idea for this action unit by a post by one of my favourite blogs. Thrillermiller is his nickname and I really liked the idea of this attacking unit...

Miniatures: Frontrank (metal)

French Napoleonic Gun

Of course its not all about the british... so french napoleonics got also their first gun. This one is a metal one by Frontrank Miniatures....

Colours used here are Vallejo... enjoy !

New time for building up Napoleonics - back to start -

After my more or less one year excurse into WW2 and Flames of War it is time to go back to Napoleonics.
What I have learned within one year of painting exceeds my own expectations. Compared to my first miniatures to what I am now capable of painting it is surely time to review myself or the minis that I considered "finished" nearly one year ago.

So what is up coming on this blog ?

As I tried out various different companies now I will truely stick to these:
- Front Rank Figures : 
  I love their metal minis even if a unit might look a bit the same of all over again as metal , without    conversions, makes quite a similar looking unit, but again.. the miniatures look great and I love painting them.

- Perry Miniatures:
 Their plastics as well as their metal ranges will also find their place in my units.Top notch castings. Along with the Front Rank Figures I will find some varitation within my units

- Victrix:
 Not too bad for Plastic only and a cheap way to stuff out more or less large numbers. The great things on plastic is that you simply can convert them without the need of cutting tooooooooooooo much (including myself).

- Warlord Games:
This is the fourth company included. As I also paint on some Bolt Action Miniatures I sometimes feel the urge to buy a box or two from their plastics. Again this is a matter of variation with the units.