Monday, July 4, 2011

Company A of the 83rd Foot





Several views of my first 12 figures for the 83rd Regiment. Figures are all from Elite Miniatures. (click to enlarge).

I got at least one company of 12 figures painted over the holiday weekend, and hopefully will have a second company completed by Tuesday evening, given that I have the next two days off from work.

I've pretty much decided that the first regiment will be the 83rd Regiment of Foot, which was part of Colville's brigade (along with the 94th and 5th regiments) in Picton's Third Division of Wellington's Peninsular army. I don't know if I will ever paint the other two regiments in the brigade, but if I eventually choose to add more redcoats, then these will be the lads that I add.

I sent off an order to GMB Designs Flags yesterday, and now that they have a web site with a shopping cart feature, ordering flags is easy peasy and so all things are tickety-boo for now.

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  1. GalliaJuly 4, 2011 at 10:22 PM

    Jim,
    Your new redcoats are resplendent. Very well done!
    Cheers,
    Bill

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  2. AkersMinisJuly 4, 2011 at 10:42 PM

    I give you credit for these because I have to say they are some very bad sculpts. I remember doing some french of them a while back and the oblong necks just threw me off.

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  3. AnonymousJuly 4, 2011 at 10:46 PM

    Is that Colonel Carr watching over the company?

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  4. johnpreeceJuly 5, 2011 at 5:27 AM

    Jim the 83rd were raised in Dublin, they were known as 'Fitches Grenadiers'. This was because the soldiers height was significantly less than the other regts they were brigaded with, and of course the commanding officers name was Fitch.

    You could try the website of the Royal Ulster Rifles which is quite good on its antecedents.

    regards
    John

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  5. Steve-the-WargamerJuly 5, 2011 at 6:58 AM

    Like those a lot..

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  6. Dave WargamerJuly 6, 2011 at 5:53 AM

    Looking very promising. If they were from Dublin, you could call them Jim's Jackeens.

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  7. Bluebear JeffJuly 6, 2011 at 3:01 PM

    According to Wikipedia, the 83rd were "the County of Dublin" Regiment:

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/83rd_%28County_of_Dublin%29_Regiment_of_Foot

    So you could always call them "Dubliners" or simply Irish.


    -- Jeff

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  8. CarloAntonioJuly 8, 2011 at 3:06 PM

    Fantastic look !!!

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  9. SchrumpfkopfJuly 11, 2011 at 7:50 AM

    Im a huge fan of all things Elite.
    Your painting does them great justice.

    Now paint a full 1/20 battalion =)

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