On the Road to Austerlitz: A 6mm Early Napoleonics Project
The First Brigade
Merry Christmas Everyone!
I’ve had some spare time and here’s the first Brigade based up ready for basing and grass.
I decided to go for a 100mm x 100mm base on a 3mm hick Plasticard although for this first one I used an old GW Movement Tray for convenience.
Also I had miscalculated the frontage of a strip, I had based my measurements on the 6mm ACW minis from the same company but those minis are far more spread out and 6 men have a 30mm frontage compared to these 6 men who have a 20mm frontage.
So I went for a 4 x 4 block of 16 strips.
This gives me a full Brigade of 192 Regulars plus Commanders and Skirmishers means each Brigade has around 200 men on it.
In the first version I wrongly called this a Division when it’s only a Brigade which is much better for me because it gives me more of the Mass effect I’m looking for.
The Base. Those of us who had old school Warhammer Fantasy Armies will remember these.
Almost everything clipped from the Paddle Pop Sticks and ready to glue. I normally attatch them with GW Liquid Green Stuff since it bonds just well enough to hold but comes off very easily but I didn't have enough and these are done with very thin Super Glue.
The Minis. 15 Stands of Each Regiment with a Command Stand. One Stand in each Regiment was Cut in Half to Centre the Flag as shown later
The Brigade complete with Jager Skirmishers and Mounted Colonels.
The Flags just need a Black Double Eagle with Red and White Shield.
A massive problem I have with wargaming is not centering the Command Stand.
Games like Black Powder with 6 Bases always end up looking silly with lopsided Battalions so centering the Command Base is important to me visually,
Great stuff. The choice of going for big battalions is really visually pleasing.
Thanks very much. I was a bit worried about going from a 3×3 to a 4×4 but in the end it turns out to be an extra $10 per base and looks far better, to me the whole point of doing this project was to look Grand and Epic.
Spiffing stuff