Borodino at Joy of Six - forces preparation - the Army of Westphalia

 Ilkley Irregulars will be presenting the battle of Borodino, Russia 1812, at Joy of Six in Sheffield 4 weeks today.  See how our first playltest went here.

My defensive earthworks are done and I have made some suitable Russian buildings, these are for another post.

I also decided, after the first playtest, to create Junot's Westphalians (VIII Corps).  I looked on Pinterest and found this extremely helpful picture:

I also found more pictures covering the drummers, all the infantry regiments and the Marshals and ADC uniforms.

The Westphalian artillery were almost indistinguishable from the French (unless the guns are a different colour, in which case send me a comment!) so one of my existing gun stands will be fine.

So, six stands of infantry, two with flags and a Marshal to create.  About this time I had a couple of bouts of illness, so it's taken a while to get them finished, but today's the day they had their portraits painted and they relocated to a storage box to await the big day!

The figures are Baccus 6mm - French line infantry 1806-1812 for the most part, NCOs are Elite line infantry 1806-1812, skirmishers French light infantry 1806-1812 and Guard Infantry are French Guard infantry (obvs).  Based for the BBB rules.

Their white coats and bright facing colours will make a nice contrast to the dark blue of the French line and Poles who will be fighting along side them.  

Flags are home prints from originals taken from the now defunct Warflag/Napflag free flag internet site.

Marshal Junot is from one of the Napoleonic Command Packs (Austrian?) and the ADC is French with the addition of a big plume (yellow, in this case).

So, great little project and a nice unit to field 4 weeks today!