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| The 13e Légère march out. |
It's a cold winter's night here in Wellington, but I'm warmed by the fact that the 13th Légère are finally ready to take the field.
Joining the DK 8 chasseur companies featured in my last post are six DK 8E: French Line Infantry Elites 1812, Charging, painted as carabiniers; and two DK 8E and four DK 11E painted as volitgeurs.
That I was able to find only eight DK 8E suggests that the typical ratio of elite to centre company figures in DK French line infantry sets was 8 to 16, organised into six, 4-figure companies. If this is so, mustering the 6-figure elite companies needed for my organisation is likely to become a problem.
Although there are more French infantry in the painting queue, these are going to have to wait a bit as it's high time I did some cavalry. Anyone would think I've been avoiding them...
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| March Past for the Emperor |
The truth is that this is almost certainly what I've been doing. When I was a teenager I hated painting cavalry units as they seemed to take three times as long as the infantry, and I really wasn't very good at them.
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| The 13th looking spiffy in their all-blue uniforms! |
As the best way round this aversion would be to start with something simple, expect to see some Prussian cavalry in the next post!
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| Manoeuvring in style!. |
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| A classic vintage line up. |
