Napoleon in Egypt – Expédition Baïonnette en Argent

A little bit of scatter terrain for this project – a nice resin sarcophagus from Scotia Grendel. Although I was keen to capture some of the colourful paints on the covers, I also wanted to try and make things look a little worn and old. Pretty happy how everything turned out.

Second big beastie is a giant scorpion, again coming from Northstar. The painting was again pretty quick and simple, mostly done with drybrushing over a dark base coat with an odd wash and glaze, and a couple of highlights picked out at the end.

Bit more effort to assemble than the snake, as the claws and tail are weighty bits of metal that really need pinning, but it certainly looks the part when placed up against 28mm figures.

Time to add a few more monsters to my Silver Bayonet: Egypt bestiary. First up is a Uraeus (or really big snake to the lay person). The model comes from the official Northstar range, and is a relatively easy built multi-part metal figure. As the last picture shows, the figure is a good size, with snake rearing comfortably above a 28mm figure.

I kept the painting pretty simple, avoiding anything too elaborate with patterning.

A few more Frenchmen all painted up. These chaps come from the 85eme demi brigade. At this point I’ve got substantially more than the 8 figures required for a Silver Bayonet unit, but choices are very important (that’s my excuse anyway), and there’s another officer/junior officer plus a sappuer here.

All figures are from Brigade Games again, flag is from GMB Designs.

Since I’ve got both Dromedary Corps troopers on camels and their dismounted counterparts, it seemed necessary to also have a camel holder.

This set is by the Perrys, which are a bit larger than the Brigade Games figures, but I think they look okay alongside each other.

I’ve also picked up a couple of the Gale Force 9 Battlefield in a Box sets, with the fallen column belonging to one of them. I’m quite impressed with them, nice pieces that save me a bit of time making/painting my own equivalents.

Back to painting humans rather than the supernatural monsters with some Albanian soldiers. Rather than being part of the French Armée d’Orient like the others in this project so far, these chaps are part of the Ottoman army.

I found quite a few variations on clothing colours for these troops. Whilst the white pleated skirt-like garment (called a fustanella) is very standard, jackets are depicted in several colours, mainly green or red, often with a lot of embellishments and details. Paintings by Paja Jovanovic caught my interest the most (see the two examples below), so I based my colour schemes around these (although passed on the detailing).

No idea how historically accurate these are, but I quite like the end look of bright red against the white.

Another of the new monsters for Silver Bayonet: Egypt are werejackels, with a pair of nice sculpts produced by Northstar to accompany the new supplement.