5th Line Battalion, King's German Legion

The emerging Anglo-allied forces sees some attention this time with another battalion of King's German Legion joining their countrymen painted a couple of weeks ago.

Again all the figures are from the  Perry Miniatures Plastic Napoleonic British Line Infantry box set.

This unit is a less regimented than the previous match with pretty much every type of pose available in the set represented among the troopers in this battalion. 

I'm not sure how to represent a battalion of about 450 men doing platoon fire with only 20 figures but I don't think it looks too bad.

All the figures are painted using my standard base-coat, wash, highlight method and for those interested the infantrymen's red coats are a basecoat of 50:50 Black Red : Flat Red, washed with AP Strong Tone, once dry the basecoat is re-applied then highlighted up with 25:75 Black Red : Flat Red and AP Red Wash painted into the detail.

The officers coats are similar but start at 25:75 Black Red : Flat Red and the highlights finished with just Flat Red. Their sashes are done the same as the infantrymen's coats.

The officers bare head was painted with ginger hair, for no other reason that I will soon be adding a more famous red head to my French forces and wanted to try out a scheme for him. 

The next shot is the pair of KGL battalions painted so far formed up in echelon, I've got a lot more painting to do if I want to play General de Brigade or Over the Hills, but I can get four groups of foot out of these so could probably do a start force for Sharpe Practice with only a few more painting sessions.

 

More Anglo-allied on deck at the moment with a unit of English infantry this time assembled, primed and starting to have the base-coats blocked in.