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Sunday, March 1, 2020
A Bit of This and a Bit of That and Voila!
The upcoming game cries out for some emigre units. After consulting various books, my choice of homecast bits, and my future plans, I decided to cobble together an imaginary unit which will be able to find a home in various settings.
The bodies are slightly modified Meisterzinn ones with my original round hat heads, with crest filled out with epoxy putty. The coat has the general look of the Austrian style cut worn by several Emigre units in Flanders but with white turnbacks and a minimum of lace which can serve in other campaigns.
Born and raised in the suburbs of Montreal, 5 years in the Black Watch of Canada Cadets, 5 years at the Collège militaire royal de Saint-Jean followed by 4 in the navy. 25 years with CPC in IT simultaneous with 23 years running a boarding kennel. Inherited my love of toy soldiers from my mother's father. Married with a pack of Italian Greyhounds and 3 cats. Prematurely retired and enjoying leisure to game, maintaining our 160 yr old farmhouse and just living.
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They look like fine fellows, soon, no doubt, to be basking in glory!
ReplyDeleteor shame, one never knows with these hastily raised foreign auxiliaries.
DeleteA fine body of men , they will very much look the part on the tabletop.
ReplyDeleteOne hopes!
DeleteI like 'imaginary' units - with 'real' units it always feels a bit wrong to put them in unhistorical scenarios!
ReplyDeleteyet some how I have no objective to the opposite, Of course the South Essex was at Talavera.....
DeleteLove the hats !
ReplyDeleteThey are rather stylish.
DeleteThis twelve figure unit looks terrific and is just the thing for an Imagi-nation army. Too bad you don't have any extra figures for a small gun crew....
ReplyDeleteThe armies of the French Revolution are diverse enough and fought in such various locations and situations, often with unlikely allies so that one doesn't really need to add in Imagi-nation armies though a fictional unit name does no harm.
DeleteFigures and guns for a gun crew can be cast when needed but if I have room for more artillery in the game I'll probably add either a gun of the newly formed Royal Horse Artillery or a Naval landing party.