If you checkout warlords ebay store you can get the Portuguese starter army for £48 (20% off until 31st Mar 21 and a potential extra 10% if you buy more that one item from them) which might be an alternative interesting starter for some people
Finally a home for my great idea! If you look up the Portuguese Corps of Mounted Guides, they have exactly the same uniform cut as British L.D., but a different (and really nice) colour scheme. I just used a box of Perry's British Light Dragoons and painted them accordingly, and use them as a small unit since they were very small. I made them look a bit more 'Mounted Guides' by putting the carbines slung over their backs too. Just a recommendation for anyone looking for easy plastic cavalry to add to their Portuguese. Think I'll be looking into that idea with the French Chasseurs too. Excellent video as always
As always, another great video! Thank you very much. One thing I'd comment is that if you look for more variety in the Portuguese Empire troops, they had a lot of different colonial units, with different uniforms and training, ranging from local militias to marines and some special units like the all black "Henriques" regiment. Osprey has 3 different books on napoleonic Portuguese. These units also saw action against the French (such as in Cayenne) and are an interesting way to have a broader and more colourful force. Cheers!
maybe you could do a full video for some french satellite states and foreign regiments since it's interesting to try something different with painting generic french infantry minis differently + some other french units with minor conversions (I can say that this method could work out for the Italians, post-1809 Saxons, Neapolitans, the Spanish Joseph Napoleon regiment, the swiss, the Irish regiment etc.)
+1 But, i have some doubts in regards of building Saxons out of French Inf.. As far as i know they did not have any epaulettes on their uniforms and every trooper was equiped with a Faschinenmesser (a short sword in all but name). The Spanish inf from warlord with replaced headgear(just go for french heads with shakos) and prussian füssilier conversion kit(the perrys have some, for the swords) should be a nice fit, if you dont mind the 4 button cuffs instead of the 2s like in rl.
some other ideas for bases include the Victric plastic ones 40 x 40 . Another is Suntuf 1200 x 600 x 3mm White PVC Palopaque Sheet . This board is what Architects make house from or use . Really good for making bases and cutting with a sharp carpet knife to what ever size you need . I can a sheet for 60AUD lasts for a whole army
@@NapoleonicWargaming we plan some battle report action against Prussian and French forces hehe, I’ve posted my progress in the “black powder era wargaming” group on fb 👍
JUST STARTED PAINTING MY OWN PORTUGUESE YESTERDAY!! Any chance going forward you go into how the Portuguese army was transformed by Beresford, and how it performed? Loved the Manley Power video, and it left me wanting to learn more!
Punching some numbers, I can't help but feel that it'd be cheaper to get the french chasseurs (a cheval, I assume), extra british horses, and still be almost half the price compared to the metals (add in a command sprue from the Perrys, and it'd be 2 regiments for not much more than one metal). And still have some french horsie-boys "for free"...
Does the outpost charge shipping for eu countries. I live in Denmark and honestly there are no 28mm brands here and I think the British ones (perrys victrix and warlord) are by far the best models I've seen, however shipping plus vat combined with the base price from websites is just not justifiable so I can only really afford to by the big bundles
Definitely saving this one. I'm suddenly getting the idea of doing a joint British-Portuguese force as my first foray into napoleonics. Possibly even looking up 3rd division and some battle (which battle did you say? Sorry, I'm horrible at remembering things when not written down). And then perhaps finding some suitable french division for them to face off against. I don't know whether to say thank you or damn you, I'm yet to paint my first napoleonic figure (and have no idea about local scene, aside from a few friends who are slowly grinding away at various projects), and here I am, making plans...
Haha. That's the best way imo! I collected Napoleonics for 15 years and played a handful of games! The battle was Vittoria, but really the British-Portuguese army was fairly unchanged, so anything from Fuentes de Onoro onwards has good 3rd Division action! You could do a lot worse than checking out the Battle of Salamanca!
@@NapoleonicWargaming Excellent, will add to my reading. And I guess I need to get some Napoleonics, now (well, as soon as my "to paint"-pile has been reduced a bit. bugger managed to explode in size again)
@@NapoleonicWargaming As a follow-up (having done some wki-diving), it's a shame that the 74th lost their Highland status, otherwise 3rd division would have everything I wanted from napoleonics. Ah, well, should perhaps not dive into mass-painting tartan first thing I do in this era (it was bad enough when going free-form on some gauls)
Hi, I'm guessing there are a lot of experienced mini painters here, could you give any basic tips to someone who's just starting out painting their first french box, (not using contrast paints.)
Depending on how much detail you want, I’d start out with the base colours and then tie them together with an overall wash like dark tone from army painter or Agrax earthshade from citadel. After that you can highlight and bring up the colour as much as you feel comfortable with. Check out culloden painting studio’s page as he’s got a few french painting tutorials that are pretty useful.
Hi, just sitting here and building some of the Portuguese. The command is the same in any box and they came without bases. So now my question, what do you think about putting in a British officer or so?
@@NapoleonicWargaming both yes and no, I thought they had the same type of uniforms as the French at that time, but it was pointed out to me that wasn't the case, also the Norway was part of Denmark back then and they had their own type of uniform.
I’ve not really seen any one do the Scandinavian kingdoms for napoleonics besides the Perry’s. I’m currently waiting for them to pad out their Swedish range before I grab a small army’s worth
@@dangregory4217 I notice, as a Dane myself I was intrigued to do a Danish Regiment/army, also I found out we had Turkish looking lancers back then that were part of the Hussar regiment, lots of interesting stuff, even some events had happened that could have been taken out of the Sharpe series.
Love these videos. I was wondering if you could please do one for the Bavarians. I am trying to get into wargaming and have always loved their uniforms. Thanks in advance.
I guess it's a bit restricted at present with only warlord resin. A good way to incorporate more "getting the most from" as you covered in your Spanish army basics as a lot of them had French uniforms.
@@nickhindley4295 they did! I didn't know about that until researching my deep dive on the Spanish. The Danish expedition where they got them sounds wild! 😂
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If you checkout warlords ebay store you can get the Portuguese starter army for £48 (20% off until 31st Mar 21 and a potential extra 10% if you buy more that one item from them) which might be an alternative interesting starter for some people
That's a great shout! I'll pin this comment!
Finally a home for my great idea! If you look up the Portuguese Corps of Mounted Guides, they have exactly the same uniform cut as British L.D., but a different (and really nice) colour scheme. I just used a box of Perry's British Light Dragoons and painted them accordingly, and use them as a small unit since they were very small. I made them look a bit more 'Mounted Guides' by putting the carbines slung over their backs too. Just a recommendation for anyone looking for easy plastic cavalry to add to their Portuguese. Think I'll be looking into that idea with the French Chasseurs too. Excellent video as always
Fantastic! Yeah, as the number of kits out there grows its definitely going to be easier and easier to kit bash all kinds of units!
As always, another great video! Thank you very much. One thing I'd comment is that if you look for more variety in the Portuguese Empire troops, they had a lot of different colonial units, with different uniforms and training, ranging from local militias to marines and some special units like the all black "Henriques" regiment. Osprey has 3 different books on napoleonic Portuguese. These units also saw action against the French (such as in Cayenne) and are an interesting way to have a broader and more colourful force. Cheers!
That's a great point!
Love this series! Please do Saxons next, they have beautiful Cavalry uniforms 😍
Good idea, gonna do some of these myself in 15mm
Great video (series)! Looking forward to the next ones, and hoping for the poles or Vistula someday!
Oh I will! Dont worry about that!
maybe you could do a full video for some french satellite states and foreign regiments since it's interesting to try something different with painting generic french infantry minis differently + some other french units with minor conversions (I can say that this method could work out for the Italians, post-1809 Saxons, Neapolitans, the Spanish Joseph Napoleon regiment, the swiss, the Irish regiment etc.)
I can give you a sneak peek that Italians are coming soon!
+1
But, i have some doubts in regards of building Saxons out of French Inf..
As far as i know they did not have any epaulettes on their uniforms and every trooper was equiped with a Faschinenmesser (a short sword in all but name).
The Spanish inf from warlord with replaced headgear(just go for french heads with shakos) and prussian füssilier conversion kit(the perrys have some, for the swords) should be a nice fit, if you dont mind the 4 button cuffs instead of the 2s like in rl.
Yay more start collecting love these vids thanks mate
🇵🇹🇵🇹🇵🇹🇵🇹🇵🇹🇵🇹🇵🇹 Portuguese for life
some other ideas for bases include the Victric plastic ones 40 x 40 . Another is Suntuf 1200 x 600 x 3mm White PVC Palopaque Sheet . This board is what Architects make house from or use . Really good for making bases and cutting with a sharp carpet knife to what ever size you need . I can a sheet for 60AUD lasts for a whole army
Nice video. Always liked the Portuegse since the Sharpe books where his old mate is a comissoned officer from NCO.
I have 500pts of Portuguese as my first napoleonic army, they are my pride and joy from 2020 and I can’t wait to use the whole force in a game soon!
Take some pictures! I'd love to see them in action!
@@NapoleonicWargaming we plan some battle report action against Prussian and French forces hehe, I’ve posted my progress in the “black powder era wargaming” group on fb 👍
@@Ridmasta ah cool! Yeah, I'm hoping when thus lockdown is over a thousand new armies will march into the world!
@@NapoleonicWargaming hope so too 🤟🏼
JUST STARTED PAINTING MY OWN PORTUGUESE YESTERDAY!!
Any chance going forward you go into how the Portuguese army was transformed by Beresford, and how it performed? Loved the Manley Power video, and it left me wanting to learn more!
I will when I do the minor nations deep dives, need to finish Prussia first though!
Don't forget Elite Miniatures!
Very nice, this is a very useful video which will help my general figure collecting, all the best, Garry
Love your vids, very helpfull!!! Maybe do the spanish?
Completely agree with you that the warlord Portuguese infantry are pretty good
Punching some numbers, I can't help but feel that it'd be cheaper to get the french chasseurs (a cheval, I assume), extra british horses, and still be almost half the price compared to the metals (add in a command sprue from the Perrys, and it'd be 2 regiments for not much more than one metal). And still have some french horsie-boys "for free"...
Great job, you sold me another army. Thanks mate great series enjoyable but expensive.
Haha. For me too! I even bought a box of Prussians!
Brilliant idea of a video and a great format 👍
Thanks 👍 As more plastics become available (Spain, Bavaria) I'll certainly do more!
Does the outpost charge shipping for eu countries. I live in Denmark and honestly there are no 28mm brands here and I think the British ones (perrys victrix and warlord) are by far the best models I've seen, however shipping plus vat combined with the base price from websites is just not justifiable so I can only really afford to by the big bundles
I'm not 100% sure to be honest. Is you message them on facebook they are quite good with responses.
Definitely saving this one. I'm suddenly getting the idea of doing a joint British-Portuguese force as my first foray into napoleonics. Possibly even looking up 3rd division and some battle (which battle did you say? Sorry, I'm horrible at remembering things when not written down). And then perhaps finding some suitable french division for them to face off against. I don't know whether to say thank you or damn you, I'm yet to paint my first napoleonic figure (and have no idea about local scene, aside from a few friends who are slowly grinding away at various projects), and here I am, making plans...
Haha. That's the best way imo! I collected Napoleonics for 15 years and played a handful of games!
The battle was Vittoria, but really the British-Portuguese army was fairly unchanged, so anything from Fuentes de Onoro onwards has good 3rd Division action! You could do a lot worse than checking out the Battle of Salamanca!
@@NapoleonicWargaming Excellent, will add to my reading. And I guess I need to get some Napoleonics, now (well, as soon as my "to paint"-pile has been reduced a bit. bugger managed to explode in size again)
@@NapoleonicWargaming As a follow-up (having done some wki-diving), it's a shame that the 74th lost their Highland status, otherwise 3rd division would have everything I wanted from napoleonics. Ah, well, should perhaps not dive into mass-painting tartan first thing I do in this era (it was bad enough when going free-form on some gauls)
Hi, I'm guessing there are a lot of experienced mini painters here, could you give any basic tips to someone who's just starting out painting their first french box, (not using contrast paints.)
Depending on how much detail you want, I’d start out with the base colours and then tie them together with an overall wash like dark tone from army painter or Agrax earthshade from citadel. After that you can highlight and bring up the colour as much as you feel comfortable with. Check out culloden painting studio’s page as he’s got a few french painting tutorials that are pretty useful.
@@dangregory4217 Thanks!
@@blahblah-hw3xg depending on their uniforms... If they have no greatcoats, white spray paint will make your life sooo much easier. Best of luck
@@SonOfSalop 🙏thank you
Thank you for another good video.
Hi, just sitting here and building some of the Portuguese. The command is the same in any box and they came without bases. So now my question, what do you think about putting in a British officer or so?
I think that'd be super cool. Maybe not in every battalion, but scattered about as little easter eggs, I think that'd be cool!
@@NapoleonicWargaming in a red uniform or also in blue like his men?
If you would put together some Danish troops, and you want to go on the less expensive side, which miniature/models would you pick??
Hmm, I'm not super familiar with the Danish. Didnt they have French style uniforms?
@@NapoleonicWargaming both yes and no, I thought they had the same type of uniforms as the French at that time, but it was pointed out to me that wasn't the case, also the Norway was part of Denmark back then and they had their own type of uniform.
I’ve not really seen any one do the Scandinavian kingdoms for napoleonics besides the Perry’s. I’m currently waiting for them to pad out their Swedish range before I grab a small army’s worth
@@dangregory4217 I notice, as a Dane myself I was intrigued to do a Danish Regiment/army, also I found out we had Turkish looking lancers back then that were part of the Hussar regiment, lots of interesting stuff, even some events had happened that could have been taken out of the Sharpe series.
Love these videos. I was wondering if you could please do one for the Bavarians. I am trying to get into wargaming and have always loved their uniforms. Thanks in advance.
I definitely will do! I'm waiting on Victrix to release their plastics or as soon as they do, my video will be outdated!
@@NapoleonicWargaming do they have a release date? Just curious
Love this episode and the series, Maybe Spanish next?
I'm waiting on the plastics to arrive, then you betchya!
I guess it's a bit restricted at present with only warlord resin. A good way to incorporate more "getting the most from" as you covered in your Spanish army basics as a lot of them had French uniforms.
@@nickhindley4295 they did! I didn't know about that until researching my deep dive on the Spanish. The Danish expedition where they got them sounds wild! 😂
Great video. You should pronounce “Cassador” (singular) and “cassadores” (plural). And “ah-teeradores”
Perfect thanks!
I think it’s pronounced like this, tee-ra-do-res. ;)
Where's Fry's hat?
Is it realistic to collect a dutch army? Either batavian republic or kingdom of the netherlands.
I'm sure it will be! Certainly they're well covered for 1815 but I'll have a look at earlier suitable minis
@@NapoleonicWargaming Ok, thnx for the reply.
First comment!
On contrair my friend