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Post by Mike Blake on Nov 6, 2017 17:41:05 GMT
 A sketch I did a while back when first thinking about this as a wargames project - the early uniform of the Turcos, which I find really inspiring. (sorry about it appearing twice! My bad obviously but I don't know why) I've come back to this one, inspired after a couple of games (FFL in the 1950s and WWII LRDG) on some simply beautiful scratch built terrain by Lucky Pete Reynold of the Skirmish Wargames Collective. The buildings, city walls, gateways etc, with his lovely big mosque and minaret just cried out for red-legged French infantry and multicolored Algerians to be at it, bayonet to scimitar! Some more details on my Blog, lifes-a-botch.blogspot.co.uk/. Have now got hold of some of the Expeditionary Force Napoleonic French Infantry - excellent. Will paint them up for this period now, instead of the Conte and Victrix I had planned on using (anybody want these now surplus figures?) Attachments:
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Post by Mike Lewis on Nov 8, 2017 9:26:04 GMT
Was this the fly-whisk war? Where the French invaded after an insult to the French Ambassador and they started the FFL?
Mike
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Post by Mike Blake on Nov 9, 2017 17:14:54 GMT
Mike - that's the one! Scope for some small battles and all size of skirmishes.
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Post by Mike Blake on Nov 22, 2017 8:48:43 GMT
  A couple of cavalry conversions WIP photos, on for either side. Googling the subject brings up some good stuff but...I want more! When I am doing a new period I become over-interested (some, like my wife, say obsessed) with it and need to be immersed in information. Sad but there it is. I kept hoping Douglas Porch would make it a trilogy, to go with the Conquest of Morocco and ditto the Sahara but it hasn't happened. Clayton is good for brief details of the development of units and the course of the campaign. Detaille briefly covers it, and so far the best is the reprint of Laurie, which has nothing on clothing or uniforms but quite a lot of brief descriptions of skirmishes and battles. No maps of them though. I have another reprint of a book about the French in Algeria by a German writer, which gives a lot of rather basic info on the native tribes fighting the French. The Funken 19th Century Vol i has some French uniforms. En avant mes enfants! |
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