Rose Napoleonic project 2019: British Army

The British Army.

It comprises:

5 battalions Line Infantry
1/2 battalion Highlanders
1/2 battalion Rifles

1 squadron Life Guards
1 squadron Royal Horse Guards
2 squadrons Light Dragoons
1 squadron Hussars

3 guns (Hinton Hunt) and crews (Rose)

Rose Napoleonics project 2019:: Austrian Army

The entire Austrian Army.

Apart from the Peter Goldsbrough Collection line battalion converted from helmets to shakos, these were all painted from scratch.

There were no cavalry or artillery (the entire listed Rose Austrian range comprised three figures of fusiliers in helmets - officer, marching and advancing infantrymen). However there also seemed to be advancing and marching Austrian Grenadier figures which are well represented in this army.

I added some artillery - a spare MF 20mm crew, three Newline crews and four Newline guns. I haven't done anything about cavalry and if they are required I will borrow them from my Hinton Hunt Austrian army.

I decided to paint most of the infantry as Hungarian (sky blue trousers) rather than German (white trousers) regiments. The figures are the same, just differently painted trousers.

The whole Rose Austrian army is made up of:

1 battalion German line infantry in shakos
1 battalion German converged Grenadiers

2 battalions Hungarian line infantry in helmets
3 battalions Hungarian converged Grenadiers
1 small unit of Jagers

4 guns and crews

The two generals are one Hinton Hunt figure and one Rose Wellington figure with a paint conversion. There are some Hinton Hunt foot officers in the Grenadier units.

Rose Napoleonics project 2019:: French Army

The whole French army - in the blue trays - British army in red trays behind.

The whole army comprises:

3 battalions French Line Infantry
2 converged battalions French Carabiniers
5 battalions Guard Grenadiers, one painted as Dutch
1 battalion Bavarian Line Infantry
1/2 battalion Nassau Infantry (2 light companies, 1 company Grenadiers)

1 squadron Carabiniers
2 squadrons Cuirassiers
I squadron Dragoons
1 squadron Lancers
1 squadron Line Chasseurs a Cheval

3 guns and crews.
Gunners are Rose and I have given them 2 8 pdrs and 1 howitzer, all of which are Hinchliffe 20mm models.

Guard Grenadiers are of course grossly over represented, but as this is an army constructed out of what I've got and in particular from two main collections, one originally painted and the other originally unpainted figures, it hasn't been created to order.

In the end a good variety of troop types. The originally painted collection figures, which have just needed a small amount of refurbishment, are finished to a better standard than those I have painted from scratch, However, because of the stylised nature of the figures and in particular the two infantry poses, I think they look very good en masse.