Kept myself busy since Christmas (in spite of a chest infection), painting more dismounted Dragoons for Old John. This continues the theme from the previous box where I got to select Dragoon units from the excellent reference book John sent me. What you see here are five units of French Dragoons and a unit of Portuguese Dragoons (in white tunics). The French were painted to match the four extra drummer figures I painted previously and the horse holder and horses also painted previously so all units will now comprise 8 Dragoons, 1 horse and 1 horse holder.
The figures are plastic by Strelets, an excellent set with realistic poses and accurate sculpts. I enjoyed painting them very much indeed and while red is the predominant colour of the tunics I tried to vary the shades slightly as per the book.
48 figures (+ 4 drummers painted previously) and 4 standing horses. Noted the unpainted saddle and corrected! Next are 60 Russian infantry armed with muskets and large axe, (Streltsy) for John in 4 units, each with different colour tunics.
I have also managed to rebase all of the Crimean war 6mm figures over the last couple of weeks on 50mm x 25mm MDF bases. I went with the 3 ranks this time as I wanted to give the impression of larger bodies of massed troops for use with DBN (DBC?) rules as well as on the C&C board and Portable wargame rules and this basing style suits all three sets of rules. I'm happy anyway with the overall look. I ran out of bases with two more Russian cavalry units left but have more on order. I still have plenty more figures to paint but for now I'm going to focus on the terrain.
