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 Napoleonic music while you browse! (212KB) |
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Besides my wargames units, I also like to make little "vignettes" for my armies. These are mini-dioramas, intended to add visual interest to the miniature battlefield, rather than to take part in the actual gameplay.
The French campsite scene depicted above, for instance, will look great placed somewhere behind the lines. The figures in this scene all come from one Wargames Foundry set, whilst the tents are cutouts from an old Games Workshop magazine (I have filled them with plaster-of-paris to make them stronger).
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An army marches on its stomach, as they say. And here to provide some of the sustenance (though the French generally had to live off the land) is a Foundry cantiniere of the 15th Light Infantry, depicted giving a drink to a chasseur. Her donkey cart is a New Zealand-made product from a company called Wildly Inspired, though I have changed the medieval wheels for Hinchcliffe limber wheels.
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Some more light infantry figures: a gaudily-uniformed musician and a carabinier of the 17th Light Infantry give directions to a mounted ADC (all Foundry figures). The musician wears a yellow czapska hat instead of the more traditional shako or busby.
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The New Zealand company Wildly Inspired make a nice line of pack horses and donkeys. In this vignette you can see a very nicely posed Foundry infantryman with two pack donkeys. One of the donkeys is carrying a body in a bag (obscured in this picture).
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Some more Wildly Inspired pack horses, this time led by a Redoubt recruit, known as a 'Marie-Louise'. Het wears an over-large greatcoat with a rope belt, patched trousers, fatigue cap, and wooden clogs. His musket strap is made out of string. |
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Here is the same 'Marie-Louise' again, depicted at the fore-front of this French column, which is about to be ambushed by a party of Spanish guerillas (these latter are Front Rank figures). By the way, you'll find more photos of this scene on my club's website: the Kapiti Fusiliers Historic Gaming Club.
Rather than using unsightly plastic markers to indicate losses, I have begun using casualty figures, such as these ones by Foundry. The grey dots on the side of the bases indicate how many casualties that unit has suffered. There are differing amounts of dots on the four faces of the base, so one merely has to turn the casualty figure to show the correct amount of casualties. One day perhaps I'll paint enough casualty figures to use them one-for-one, but at the moment this dot system suffices.
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