A place where Ancient Ancient armies can peacefully retire to...
Possibly.
Oh, and some pulp. A few things on 6mm SciFi tanks and stuff. And the toy soldiers. Especially the War of 1897... And now I seem to be starting on 20mm Napoleonics as well!
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Friday, 16 February 2018
1897 The first of the invaders
First unit of French infantry finished. Figures used are Irregular 42mm from the Franco-Prussian War Range Very much toy soldier for lots of reasons. For a start, what colour blue? Every picture looks different. Finally settled on Vallejo Model Colour dark blue - 70.930. Next, unit size. On Regimental organisation, 151st Line Infantry Regiment in 1914 site suggests each Brigade included 2 Regiments. The Renegade Miniatures site and French Regiments of Infantry amplified this by saying each Regiment had 3 Battalions. So, even though 1914, quite happy to go with this. How many companies is another issue. Renegade Miniatures suggest 5 companies - 'and whilst a battalion officially consisted of 1,000 men (approx. 200 men making a
company),' - but 151st suggests 4 companies of 250 men. So, on balance it seems reasonable to stick with 4 men per Battalion, therefore 12 men per Regiment - except the figures I got from Irregular are in 8s... so I'm going to have them leave one Battalion per Regiment at home! One thing I'm not sure about is the flag - do I leave them plain or try for some fancy gold letters? Thinking about that one!
It's ironic that when Le Queux wrote 'The Great War in England in 1897' (back in 1894) a war against France and Russia was a distinct possibility - this ended with the Entente Cordiale in 1904... so in 1906 Le Queux wrote 'The Invasion in 1910'in which Germany was the enemy... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Invasion_of_1910
Man the Palmerston Forts! Was Lord Palmerston right after all, just years ahead of his time? I look forward to seeing how this 1897 project pans out.
ReplyDeleteIt's ironic that when Le Queux wrote 'The Great War in England in 1897' (back in 1894) a war against France and Russia was a distinct possibility - this ended with the Entente Cordiale in 1904... so in 1906 Le Queux wrote 'The Invasion in 1910'in which Germany was the enemy... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Invasion_of_1910
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