Tuesday, April 8, 2014

Russian Napoleonic Infantry - Azov Musketeers

I was going to title this as "The Russians Are Coming!" but given world events I thought it might be misinterpreted.  However, as an aside, I grew up in Adelaide and that city is protected by two forts that were built as I understand it to defend against the Russians in the late nineteenth century. So...

On with the post.

Another of my Christmas present batch of figures from Dragon Painting Services rebased and ready for action.  All I did for these chaps was give them a new flag (their uniform from around 1810 seems a bit generic - which is good - but the pom pom seems prescriptive and a little research came up with the Azov Musketeer Regiment from the Brest-Litovsk Inspection and Warflag had their flag for easy downloading, resizing and printing) and coat of satin varnish (and of course the rebase).  They look like they mean business!




This was a bonus figure - an early war Prussian general.  He can be in Russian service.

4 comments:

  1. AB miniatures are great to have....good looking unit!..

    cheers

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    1. I was looking at some of my other Napoleonic figures and certainly the ABs are something special.

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  2. They look great SoY, are you building an early Russian army?

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    1. All credit to DPS. No, these were just part of a job lot. I do want to build the Russians that were closely associated with the late war Prussians, but that is a long term project.

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