The Perrys have created wonderful vignettes including a few ‘casualty’ scenes which I have painted. The Russian one (link:
post ) was built around their Apothecary Wagon to which I added their wounded. The French Larrey’s wagon is marvellous (link:
photo ). Their ACW wagon (link:
Perry site) I converted some of the figures to create one for the Belgian contingent of the 100 Days Campaign (link:
my post ).
And so I wanted to continue the theme for my other contingents of Napoleonic armies. So far no Prussian offerings. Sigh.
For the British also nothing era related. The new range of Cape War does offer a stretcher party. (link:
photo ) I could work with that.
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| original Perry model from their website. |
While the cuffs are wrong, that was easily remedied with removal and the lace painted on. The coat tails are longer but I left those; as too the rolled blanket-pack which I merely painted black to match the trotter style packs of the rest of my British collection. The very era looking heads or caps were cut off to be replaced with correct plastic versions. I liked the stovepipe look better so went with those as they were used at Waterloo by some British and Hanoverian regiments.
While probably more just for eye-candy for the tabletop and fill in some of the open spaces, it could be employed to identify the zone of retreat for the army should it be required.
