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Napoleonic
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January 2006 -
A new Vistula Legion lancer unit on the
Cavalry page, and some new staff figures on the Generals
page. Don't forget to check out the photos of of my opposing
British, Portuguese and Spanish armies in the Kapiti
Fusiliers website galleries.
31
July 2005 - Last
month I had the opportunity to find out what it feels like
to be one of my model soldiers! Well, almost ... it was actually
a reeenactment of the Battle of Waterloo, involving some 2,300
uniformed reeenactors, including yours truly. Here's an illustrated
article about my experiences at Waterloo
2005.
30 July 2004
- 'Valeur et Discipline' makes it into print! Several photos
of the miniatures on this site feature on the front cover
of the latest edition of Piquet's Les
Grognards rules!
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30 August 2003
- miniature troops
need terrain to fight over. I have just completed a whole
village of 25mm Peninsular War houses, which you can see on
the Kapiti
Fusiliers Historic Gaming Club.
27 July 2003
- some more photos
of my British Napoleonics (to oppose the French on this site!)
have been added to the gallery pages of the Kapiti
Fusiliers Historic Gaming Club.
20 November 2002
- a few months ago I was commissioned
to paint a Napoleonic Portuguese army for the Miniature Service
Center in California. You can now see pictures of the figures
I have finished so far on the MSC
website.
14 September
- Everyone knows Theodore
Gericault's famous painting of an Imperial Guard mounted officer.
But if you click on the picture below, you'll find an interesting
variation of the picture.

Site designed & owned
by:
Roly
Hermans
Paraparaumu
New Zealand.
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'Valeur et Discipline' - valour and discipline. These words
proudly emblazoned on their flags, the soldiers of Napoleon's Grande Armée
marched and fought their way right across Europe in a series of bloody
wars during the first decades of the nineteenth century.
A few
years ago I commenced painting my own miniature Grande Armée for
playing wargames. This website is designed to display my army as it is
completed bit by bit.
My miniature 28mm soldiers are mainly manufactured by the British companies
Front Rank and Foundry. I use Vallejo, Derivan and
Games Workshop paints for the figures and artist's oils for the horses.
Are my figures completely accurate? Well, although my philosophy is to
get them as close to accurate as possible, there are limits imposed by
the actual castings and the small amount of reference material I have
available. But bear in mind that an infantry battalion of only 24 men
is not accurate in itself, so other small errors pale into insignificance
in comparison!
I don't actually get to use these figures in many wargames, but when
I do, the rules we use are either Piquet or General de Brigade.
My figures have not been specifically based for either set of rules, but
instead use base-sizes that I find visually pleasing: 35mm x 55mm for
infantry, 50mm x 65mm for cavalry, and 55mm x 85mm for artillery.
One last point - it is notoriously difficult to photograph the colour
blue accurately. The colour of the uniform coats in the photographs on
this site varies from picture to picture, and often looks much lighter
than on the actual figures themselves. So please do not rush to email
me to tell me my shade of blue is wrong!
Roly
Hermans
Paraparaumu, New Zealand
(Yes, that is me on the left, posing as one of my own miniatures,
an ADC to Marshal Berthier! Click
here to see the original photo that I converted to make this self-portrait)
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