Autumn Review - Turkish and Sardinian Armies

Continuing a review of Alan's Crimean troops, with my collection alongside them, I thought I would look at a couple of the smaller nations; Turkey and Sardinia.

I must say that I thought the collection of Turkish troops would be larger from my brief inspection of the boxes, but it turns out to be quite a modest force.  When combined with my collection it looks like this:

A total of six battalions, four cavalry regiments and nine guns (I forgot two guns which are in the box). On the left wing we have Alan's cavalry:

Alan's artillery and infantry:

The infantry and cavalry from my collection:

Along with my guns:

Next up, it's the Sardinians.

Again I was a little surprised as I was convinced that Alan had built up a Sardinian army, but when I looked he had just completed the cavalry. So, here we are:

Just five infantry regiments, one deployed as skirmishers, one gun and a cavalry regiment.  Interestingly, the Sardinians did not send complete regiments to the Crimea, but squadrons and companies which were amalgamated in the field.  Alan has produced some wonderful conversions, painted in a variety of colours, reflecting the amalgamated squadrons:

The infantry:

Skirmishers:

And artillery:

Autumn Review - Russian Army 1854

 Just before he passed away, Alan Cook entrusted me with his Crimean War and Austro Prussian War collections. These are mostly Minifigs S Range figures, beautifully painted and organised.

I thought it might be nice to show off some of these figures, with the addition of my own collection besides them.  To kick off I have paraded the Russian army.  The combined force is massive and it was difficult to get all of the figures into the frame.  So, I will let the pictures do the talking:

The Russian Army in the Crimea:

First a general shot:

The right wing, cavalry and artillery:

The centre, mostly infantry:

The commander and siege artillery:

The left wing, more cavalry:

A view from the right wing:

View from the left wing:

I plan to have a similar exercise with the Allied armies, probably in three lots; the British, the French and Sardinian and the Turkish.  I think Alan would approve!

The Jacobite Rebellions

I have had a heap of old Minifigs Jacobites sitting in one of the darkest corners of my collection for several years, with a view that one day I would paint them and perhaps play a game. Well, last year I asked Old John to supply me with some british infantry of the period and this he duly did.  Now, with the work bench free I was looking for something a little different and the Jacobites seemed to be the answer.

So far, I have just painted a unit of Highland musketeers and a Government forces unit.  The highlanders have an officer and piper figure as well as ten infantry.  I am not good enough to paint tartan, so I went for an impression of tartan, which was time consuming enough for me:

The Government side wear the early 18th century uniform and consist of eleven soldiers and an officer figure:

I have to say that I enjoyed painting both lots and will likely do some more.

ACW Union Gun Crew

Continuing the slow time refurbishment of some Minifigs ACW figures, I have just completed another gun crew.  This one is for my Union army and I think the figures are listed as Confederate gunners,but with all of these ACW chaps it is possible to mix and match.

In my next post I shall be straying into new territory as I have a go at painting some Jacobite Rebellion figures.

Nassau Grenadiers 25mm Minifigs S Range

The final napoleonic unit from my recent painting spree takes to the field.  These are Minifigs S Range Nassau infantry, in the form of Grenadiers.  They were originally from the late Eric Knowles collection and were quite nicely painted.  I have touched them up a little and added a bit more detail, before mounting them on new bases.  

I am not sure Nassau had Grenadier battalions, probably just companies, but I will use a little wargamers license here.  

I have some Nassau line infantry on the work bench made up from French figures.  These along with some Dutch and Belgians will form a Netherlands division

25mm Napoleonic Bavarian Infantry Minifigs S Range

Next in line to be based were these three battalions of Bavarian infantry, all S Range Minifigs.  There are two line battalions and a guard battlion. The guards are paint conversions of French Imperial Guard and while not 100% accurate, they look the part:

 

25mm Russian Napoleonic Infantry

With the continuing wet weather and the COVID restrictions the weekend provided a perfect opportunity to finish off a number of painting projects. In all I managed to clear over 100 figures off the workbench.

First off are these splendid vintage Minifigs S Range Russian infantry, made up from ebay purchases and some figures from the lead mountain.  They will join my slowly expanding Russian napoleonic army:

Next up will be an American Civil War Union artllery piece with crew, followed by some Bavarian infantry and a unit of Nassau grenadiers.  Finally ther are some Airfix WW2 French.