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Fusilier Greg Simmonds' Napoleonic Russian Gallery

If you look closely, there are quite a few conversions amongst Fusiler Greg's Front Rank and Foundry Russians. Greg isn't averse to chopping off and replacing heads, which gives his units a lot more variety than most.

These photos were all taken and 'PhotoShopped' by Sean Smith from the Pocket General. He has even managed to incorporate the real-life hills behind Kapiti into the background of some of the photos!

Click on the photos to see them full size.

This unit carries the 1803 pattern flag for the Odessa regiment. Although this unit technically doesn't fit in the OOB that Greg has modelled his army after, he liked the look of the flag so decided that artistic license should prevail over historical accuracy.

 



The third battalion of the Koporoski Regiment carrying the colour of the Livonia inspection. The mounted officer and rhe standard bearer are Foundry figures while the rest of the unit is Front Rank. Greg would have liked to include more Foundry figures in this army as they mix in really well, but the range was released a couple of months after he finished painting most of his line units.

 

The Russian regiments consisted of three battalions, only two of which were fielded, the first and third. The white pom-poms with green centres on the shakos indicate that this is the first battalion. The blue and white pom-poms in the picture on the left indicate that is the third battalion.

A French skirmisher's nightmare: the Moscow dragoons at full gallop. When Greg first saw this photo he was a bit disappointed that it didn't capture all the conversions that he had done. If you look closely you will see the dragoon on the left in the front rank carrying a carbine instead of a sword. In the rear rank the centre three figures have all been converted. One thing Greg does like about the daft 'arm out' pose of these Front Rank figures is that it lends itself well to conversions. The figure on the front right is the standard bearer, but is currently open handed waiting for a standard from GMB - this didn't look to flash in the photo so he has been given a sword digitally. The lesson learnt is that photographers focus on the command elements so these are the ones that need to have most the attention paid to them.

 



These are Foundry cossacks that Greg thinks were intially designed as part of their Seven Years War range. They have been painted up to represent one of the many Don cossack units by adding the occasional blue coat. Just one of Greg's many Russian guns that dealt to Fusilier Pete Haldezos' Prussians in our recent Call To Arms demonstration game, and who seemed content to take their medicine like men. The gunners have asked him to find them a limber as their 12-pounders are a bit much to push around the field!

 

 

 

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