On the Road to Austerlitz: A 6mm Early Napoleonics Project
The First Brigade
Merry Christmas Everyone!
I’ve had some spare time and here’s the first Brigade based up ready for basing and grass.
I decided to go for a 100mm x 100mm base on a 3mm hick Plasticard although for this first one I used an old GW Movement Tray for convenience.
Also I had miscalculated the frontage of a strip, I had based my measurements on the 6mm ACW minis from the same company but those minis are far more spread out and 6 men have a 30mm frontage compared to these 6 men who have a 20mm frontage.
So I went for a 4 x 4 block of 16 strips.
This gives me a full Brigade of 192 Regulars plus Commanders and Skirmishers means each Brigade has around 200 men on it.
In the first version I wrongly called this a Division when it’s only a Brigade which is much better for me because it gives me more of the Mass effect I’m looking for.
Great stuff. The choice of going for big battalions is really visually pleasing.
Thanks very much. I was a bit worried about going from a 3×3 to a 4×4 but in the end it turns out to be an extra $10 per base and looks far better, to me the whole point of doing this project was to look Grand and Epic.
Spiffing stuff