British for Sharp Practice

Partly as an extra option if I decide to play more Sharp Practice competitions and partly with the vague idea of collecting some Americans in the future to do the War of 1812 I bought a small British Peninsular force mainly from Perry Miniatures with a few extras from the ever dependable Front Rank.

So far I have enough figures to do five Line infantry groups, two Rifle groups, a single group of Light Dragoons and a Royal Horse Artillery 6pdr gun.

The first to be completed was a group of Riflemen:

I bought metal figures for these as I didn't like the four plastic ones that came with the plastic infantry. Nice figures with a lot of character.

Next up an officer and a serjeant for the Rifles:

Not being a particular fan of the 'Sharpe' books or TV series they are emphatically not Sharpe and Harper!

I decided to paint the Line infantry as the 3rd Foot (Royal East Kent Regiment), 'The Buffs'. The first group are mainly Perry metal figures with a Front Rank sergeant:

The second group are all from the Perry plastic box set with a Front Rank officer:

The final group is the RHA 6pdr gun and crew:

Again mostly Perry with two Front Rank figures to makeup the numbers.

The force is making progress and hopefully will get finished in the next few months.