Monday, April 22, 2019

FOR SALE: 28mm Sharp Practice Napoleonic Collection

I have for sale my 28mm Napoleonic Sharp Practice collection - everything you need to start a great pro-French faction.  The figures are Perry plastic and metal French, along with some Victrix plastics, all mounted to 20mm round MDF bases and - where applicable - complete with MDF movement trays from Warbases, Inc.  What do you get?

One complete French infantry battalion of six (6) companies - four (4) line, one (1) grenadier and one (1) voltigeur - of eight (8) figures apiece, all mounted on MDF round bases, complete with movement trays.  Also included are two (2) foot officers, one (1) drummer, one (1) eagle-bearer and one (1) mounted "chef de battailon."

Three (3) German infantry companies, each of eight (8) figures and mounted on round MDF bases and movement trays.  One company is from Anhalt-Dessau, one from the Frankfort battalion and one from "the Battalion of Princes," in this case the two companies drawn from Schwarzbourg.  Also included is a mounted officer from Schwarzbourg.

One (1) additional company of eight (8) French line grenadiers, mounted on round MDF bases and a movement tray.

One company of six (6) carabineers from a light infantry battalion, mounted on round MDF bases and a movement tray.

That makes a total of ninety (90) figures and two (2) mounted figures.  Asking price is $300 or best offer, excluding priority shipping within the United States.








Saturday, January 19, 2019

28mm Calpe Saxon Command

Here are a few shots of a group of 10 divisional and brigade-level commanders I did for my small (but growing) Napoleonic Saxon army.  The goal is to have a healthy division of two brigades, each with 5-7 battalions and a battery in support.  So far, I have three line battalions and an artillery battery finished, with a fourth line battalion on the table, ready to be painted.  I'm going with GMB Designs for the flags.

These figures are from Calpe, as are all my Saxons (save for the artillery, which are from Westfalia [now Black Hussar] Miniatures).  They're gorgeous, and I am sorry my rapidly diminishing painting skills just can't seem to do them justice.  I reckon that if my divisional commander (red trousers) has been painted with a confused, bewildered, concerned look on his face, I've won.





Most of my Napoleonic Prussians are from Calpe, as well - the landwehr, cavalry, reserve infantry, commanders and artillery.  Calpe has also provided all my French infantry.  I have Perry plastics for the Prussian line infantry, and hope to have some shots of those on the way.  I'm struggling to take good photos of my troops in my current settings, so I hope to have some solutions worked out in short order.