This is one regiment I have wanted since seeing them on one of those glossy unfashionably shiny sites somewhere. These aren't Connoisseur Miniatures like the ones I saw but hey!
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| Neopolitan Guards looking every bit as great as I hoped! |
These are Victrix French plastics with Grenadier heads. There's a lot of variety of pose in these sets and great value too.
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This shot shows the colour party. Now, I know that these chaps had a rearing horse atop their standard, well this is as close as I could get, a plastic horse banner top from Warlord's Roman set. It gets my vote, cheers Tony MP.
The flag is by GMB Designs. |
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| Great sculpts. Every face tells a story, mostly "Why aren't I back in Naples with Mama and plenty pasta?" |
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| Note the barber pole with the standard. |
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| The whole 36 strong regiment lines out to fire, Swiss skulk behind the village in support. |
These were painted by Barry Hill's talented people, hi Barry and family! I highlighted the pink with something brighter as I did the light blue, I just need my toys to "pop" from across the table. Once again these are my take on this regiment and I am damn pleased with the outcome, cheers Barry.
I have a load more units to show off soon so stay tuned. We also playing a series of three linked games which might make it as a series of batreps soon, God knows it's been a while.
Wonderful! Great use of the Victrix set.
ReplyDeleteThat was bloody quick Chasseur! Glad you likey, Jeremy
DeleteGreat looking bunch. I'll have to remember these fellows and paint some someday.
ReplyDeleteBe sure to share your results! Cheers for commenting, Jeremy
Deleteprettiest painted unit I ever seen! - marvelous!
ReplyDeleteWow that is high praise - let's hope they fight as well as they look...
DeleteSplendid, absolutly splendid!
ReplyDeleteThanks Phil - you summed it up very well!
ReplyDeleteLovely Job !!!
ReplyDeleteI have painted 28mm Neapolitans recently myself and used Victrix figures . I painted up 2 line and 1 light infantry units. For the rearing horse finials I used Franznaps 1/72 command packs and with glue, plus some green stuff added them to my flagpoles-look great and are nicely to scale IMHO .I can email you some pics if you'd like to judge ok just email me at grecian1959@yahoo.com
cheers Peter
A beautiful unit, and a fine addition.
ReplyDeleteThese chaps will join my Italians I think as they are at least geographically related! Thanks for the compliment Lawrence.
DeleteVery cool looking unit, have wanted to do a Neapolitan army for ages.
ReplyDeleteThere's some real colour and flair in this army and they're a bit different too! Go for it Dan!
ReplyDeleteVery pretty, that's how napoleonics should look
ReplyDeleteJeremy I hate to tell you, no self respecting Kingdom of Italy unit would be seen near these Fops 😜
ReplyDeleteI brigade them with my Westfalians its my
"Lost Boys Brigade" . Hide or bury in terrain roll the dice and pray
Very fancy pants! Great you have ticket a long wanted box!
ReplyDeleteBeautiful unit - but will they stand!! Really lovely work
ReplyDeleteThese are outstanding. It's so difficult to get bright colors to look right. You've done a great job pulling it off.
ReplyDeleteThey are brilliant... why do they put me in mind of Battenburg cake? :o)
ReplyDeleteThanks everyone for the kind comments, next up is another I have wanted for a long time, The Corsican Tirailleurs.
ReplyDeleteBeutiful work JJ!
ReplyDeleteCheers Carlo, Barry Hill did a splendid job on these. They are in action in our present game, attached to the Middle Guard, no pressure there then!
ReplyDeleteBest wishes,
Jeremy