FN 42s French Sapeur

I recently acquired four of these figures - true to form one of the veterans has sloped off somewhere, and gone temporarily AWOL.

S Range Peninsular war armies

I am indebted to Brian for sending me a large number of pictures of his Peninsular War armies made up of S Range figures.

These feature his very handsome scenery, figures including AWI French painted as Spanish Napoleonic line, and some superb flags.

The whole thing has a very pleasing aesthetic. I particularly like the simple neat block painting of the troops, which is the effect I strive for on my Hinton Hunts without achieving this standard.

As it seems to have become incredibly difficult to load multiple pictures into posts in blogger, I have set the pictures up as slideshows, in this and the two following posts.

S Range Peninsular war armies: French

This slideshow shows Brian's French S Range units

Pictures from Military Modelling, May and June 1971

Military Modelling ran a long series of articles on The Napoleonic Wargame by Charles Grant in the early 1970s. Earlier instalments were illustrated with pictures of the Minifigs HO (20mm) range; later ones included pictures of S Range figures, like the two posted here. The second picture includes some fondly remembered Bellona vacuum formed terrain pieces - walls, bridge and river sections.