First Carlist War Additions

The lads above are Carlist Lancers from Capitan painted as Merino's Lancers a fierce unit.

One of the frustrating things about doing the Carlist War in 15mm is that manufacturers (Capitan, QRF and Totentaz) are slow in completing ranges.  On the upside these three makers of Carlist War lead produce more or less compatible figures (which are all about 18mm).  I’ve managed some solid if erratic progress since I began this project five or so years ago. 

The latest Carlist War offerings from QRF were too good to miss so here are Isabelino Royal Guard Grenadiers.  I have a second battalion of them to paint. 

 Followed by the Reina Gobenadora Light Infantry Regiment in skirmish order Baker rifles and all. 

I like these figures and I’ve got some of QRF's new French Foreign Legion too. A couple of battalions.   A battalion's worth deserted to the Carlists so that's a nice option.

Another version of the BAL these ones from ERM and made as British Marines.

From QRF again here is a battalion of the Ovierdo Regiment.

Here are Capitan/Stonewall Isabelino Line Cavalry, they are fine, horse and otherwise, but they don’t offer the full range of units or have all the command.   

What I want next is one of the Carlist Guide units and the Princesa Hussars and then I think I’ll have cracked it as far as buying Carlist War figures goes.

Russian Napoleonic Jaegers 15mm

These are all Old Glory 15mm with the exception the command figures from Capitan leading the formed battalions.  As you can see I've gone for the winter uniform to partially enable ease of table top visual recognition.  The green is Vallejo Russian Green should that be of interest.  Here we see the elite companies detached to skirmish in a 'double chain' with formed support.  

Some Russian commanders favoured a single chain.  It's hard to be prescriptive about what Russian commanders did, there seems to have been a fair bit of latitude.  Whole regiments could be put to skirmish with no supporting reserve and sometimes jaegers were even used as shock troops-straight in with the bayonet.  I'm advised that a Russian Division should have 4 units of Jaegers and the same of Musketeers with two of Grenadiers.  Effectively that's what I've done in collecting this army.

The elites were straight forward to paint, not so the line jaegers.  For the look I wanted I had to take some care.   

I think they look better in the all green winter uniform.   

I think painting attention needs to be given to the detail of these figures.  There’s lots of it, key areas are collars, cuffs and kivers closely followed by buttons and muskets.

Historically these boys need to be backed up by two attack columns of Musketeers or Grenadiers and that's how I'll use them.

Next up the Grenadiers and Musketeers.