Another paint conversion of the Wellington figure, which has a claim to be the earliest publicly available 20mm wargames figure, dating back to the late 1950s. Also present in the Guard Grenadiers stand in the second photo below, and more heavily converted in a shako on the Line Infantry command group on the left of the photo below.
The mounted officer is a more drastic conversion of the Wellington figure, with a head swap to give him a shako.
French Carabinier command - I think the officers are Guard Grenadier ones with Carabinier heads swaps. Both bases have converted hornists.
Guard Grenadier command elements
Bavarian command - I think French Guard Grenadier figures with Austrian head swaps. I suspect these heads came from the Austrians converted with shakos.
French Cavalry casualties
French Guard Grenadiers casualties
Figure converted into a Bavarian casualty
2 comments:
Ol' Nosey has a decidedly late 19th century look about him How cool to have these castings in one's collection though.
Best Regards,
Stokes
Stokes, I think this particular figure came out in around 1957. It certainly wasn't still in the catalogue buy 1965.
I'm down to my last 20 or so of them, I think. very useful for generic Napoleonic mounted officers.
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