Thanks, all, for the kind comments.
Bessiere wrote:For a complete Spanish army I would think a lot of conversions would be necessary.
Thanks, Bessiere. You are right, when doing the Spanish you need to get creative but there are lots of people who have already gone down that path. The HaT figures for the regular army (line infantry, light infantry, grenadiers and command), all sculpted by the same sculptor, I'm sure, are all very good and give you everything you need for line troops with no conversions necessary. Surprisingly, the HaT Guerrillas, although a mixed bag of rougher sculpts with a number of figures that could only serve as guerrillas, give you a large number of top-hatted militia which I have now started to expand upon with use of the HaT Austrian Landwher troops. There are also some figures in kilts and odd shakos that I eventually identified as Valencian Cazadores.
Cavalry is more complicated, but the HaT Prussian dragoons are dead ringers for the Spanish line as are the Prussian gunners. But you will never have figures that represent every corner of the Spanish army during those chaotic times, which of course is part of the appeal.
Another part is mining the rich history of this neglected part of the Peninsular War outside of the British involvement, with a surprisingly large number of batt;es that lend themselves to balanced small scale scenarios.
Have I convinced you?
. The beauty of the Spanish Napoleonic army is that you will never run out of units to paint, with all their diversity. These guys are in the standard 1805 pattern white line uniform with bicornes, which was still prevalent up until the mid Peninsular War.
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