New British & French Releases Show Off Napoleonic Scenes

October 22, 2019 by brennon

Perry Miniatures are exploring more Napoleonic releases this month with some new additions to both the French and the British forces. We'll start with some very extravagant looking leaders for the French on horseback.

Leading the way we have this set of three models representing General Fournier-Sarloveze, General Pajol and General Pully. I couldn't begin to tell you who these fellows were but they look very done up indeed. It seems like a lot of Napoleonic warfare (as a general at least) was making sure that you looked as sparkly as possible. Perfect for someone with a rifle to take you out from long range.

This is then followed by an equal amount of ostentatious looking characters for the French with Marshal Lannes, General Lasalle and General Franceschi-Delonne.

Again, I'm sure that someone will step in and tell me why these fellows are so special. It seems like it would take a lot more time than I have to delve down into the historical details about each of these different Generals and Marshals but this clearly gives you lots of options for fielding these historical characters.

Relaxin' On The Battlefield

As well as these options for the French we have a few little vignette scenes for the British. The first of these is a set called Light Cavalry Relaxing.

This is a great little piece which tells a story and helps set the scene between battles. Perhaps if you're looking to try and create an interesting scene in a diorama this would be a great pack to pick up. It could also be the snoozing and relaxing set of guards which will then be set upon by French scouts in a scenario too!

We also have this set of French Prisoners and their guards who are no doubt making them feel very comfortable.

Once again, the storytelling here is great and this would be a nice little set which works well for those building up vignettes and dioramas based around the period. I think this kind of storytelling in models is what the Perry twins do best.

What do you make of these new models from Perry Miniatures?

"I think this kind of storytelling in models is what the Perry twins do best..."

Supported by (Turn Off)

Related Companies

Perry Miniatures

Related Categories

Featured Side Historical Perry Miniatures

Related Tags

Model: Character Model: Trooper Period: Napoleonic Proportions: True Scale: 28mm

7 Comments

oldest

newest most voted

Inline Feedbacks

View all comments

onlyonepinman

6 years ago

I absolutely love historical character models, and those names general are absolutely amazing

zorg

Wow they look tremendous.

chaingun

Those light cavalry relaxing are superb and certainly set the scene on the table

elessar2590

Marshal Lannes. A very good General that died at Aspern-Essling. He was chatting with another French General all nice like when the other man’s head was taken clean off with a cannon ball. Lannes then got off his horse and sat with his head in his hands trying to cope with what just happened when another cannon ball took off his legs (One was hanging by a thread). He died a few days later. This is where Baron Larrey the first modern Military surgeon got his noble title by treating Lannes right where he was wounded.

General Lasalle. Oh boy did he rule. Probably the best Light Cavalry Officer of all time and the personification of a Napoleonic Hussar. He was a gambler, drinker, womaniser but at the same time an honest man, a caring father, a ridiculously brave leader and an expert swordsman.

Three stories.

1. Before he was married Napoleon asked him when the Wedding would be. He responded that he couldn’t afford one since he was so in debt. napoleon gave him $200,000 and saw him a week later where he asked the same question and got the same answer. When he asked what happened to all the money Lasalle just straight up told him “I spent half on settling my debts and gambled away the other half”, Napoleon just laughed and gave him another $200,000.

2. A few weeks after his wedding he was in Spain where he was having an affair with an officers wife. We know he was having this affair because the woman’s husband walked in on them in the act and challenged him to a duel. Lassale was such a brilliant swordsman he beat the guy just with parry’s and blocks which broke the other man’s wrist.

3. At a battle (can’t remember which) his men faltered and didn’t follow his orders so he formed them up in close proximity to a battery of enemy guns and sat right there with them while they took a few minutes of cannon fire to punish them.

He died like a badass charging the enemy, got shot in the guts and kept going it took a bullet to the skull to finally kill Lassale. @warzan might want to look into him because he apparently had a premonition of his own death and I know you like that sort of stuff.

Sarloveze was basically a petty criminal with a Genera’s Rank, he fought something like 30 duels against the same guy, notoriously bad tempered, attacked one of his Aides with a sword and even got locked up in the Temple.

The others are fairly minor figures but cool to have minis of.