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January 05, 2009 15mm 1805-11 Russians in greatcoats Tony Barton, the creative genius behind AB Figures, continues to expand his definitive range of 15 / 18mm Napoleonic miniatures. Eureka Miniatures are please to announce the release of his new 1805-11 Russians, all wearing greatcoats, and designed to supplement the existing Napoleonic Russian range of figures for the Austerlitz (1805) and Eylau / Friedland (1807) campaigns. Collectors can now at last recruit their Russian battalions for these great confrontations suitably ‘rugged-up’ for the inclement weather they were invariably asked to fight in. Musketeers, Grenadiers (with their spectacular tall shako plumes), Fusiliers, and Jägers are all now available wearing greatcoats, in both marching and skirmishing poses – together with similarly attired officers, standard bearers and drummers. You can of course try mixing a few of these new greatcoat wearing figures with the existing range of 1805-11 Russians in their standard uniforms for even greater variety. Customers looking for Russian flags should contact Fighting15s in the UK who are the exclusive distributor of the AB Flag range – specifically designed to compliment Tony Barton’s figures. As with all the AB Figures range, Tony’s miniatures are full of character, correctly proportioned in authentic natural looking poses, and are available in multiple variants to give your units a pleasing look when the figures are mixed and based together in large units. They are a slightly over sized ‘15mm’ figure (hence the reference to 18mm) and a little more expensive than many other makes of 15mm Napoleonic miniature (reflecting the superior quality of the sculpting and design), but we think they are worth it. Here are the catalogue details for the new miniatures - NEW 15mm AB Figures 1805-11 Russians in greatcoats Sculpted by Tony Barton AB-ER60 Musketeer, shako, greatcoat, march-attack AB-ER61 Musketeer, shako, greatcoat, skirmishing AB-ER62 Musketeer officer, greatcoat AB-ER63 Musketeer drummer, shako, greatcoat AB-ER64 Musketeer standard bearer, shako, greatcoat AB-ER65 Grenadier, shako, greatcoat, march-attack AB-ER66 Grenadier officer, greatcoat AB-ER67 Grenadier drummer, shako, greatcoat AB-ER68 Grenadier standard bearer, shako, greatcoat AB-ER69 Fusilier, greatcoat, march-attack AB-ER70 Fusilier drummer, greatcoat AB-ER71 Jäger, greatcoat, marching AB-ER72 Jäger, greatcoat, skirmishing Click here to see detailed pictures of the figures from the game, or to place an order. Click here for colour images of this range.

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Vincent CHAUVET Tue 6th Jan 09 Wow! They are wonderfull. A bit upset because there are no Fusilier standard bearer in greatcoat... "Le Rougeaud" has a very dynamic pose. I hope we will soon have an extravagant Murat as beautiful as this one! Great job! Nic Robson Thu 8th Jan 09 Vincent, we have just received this answer from Tony Barton: "Well , the sources are a little unclear. Each Grenadier regiment had three battalions. Each Batt had four companies .. The First batt. was all Grenadiers. The 2nd batt was Fusiliers , with the first coy dressed as grenadiers. The 3rd Batt was Fusiliers , with the first coy dressed as grenadiers So you have six companies of grenadiers , six companies of Fusiliers making up the three battalions. In these circumstances one might presume the the colour-bearers would likely be dressed as grenadiers , especially since they were senior NCOs. Once the scale reductions that most wargamers practice are taken into account, I didn't see the need for them.It's unclear whether men wearing the fusilier mitre ever carried a colour . However , it will take about three minutes to change a head , so I'll put one in the next mould. T" Keep watching the web site for us to update the listings with the new variant. Anton Kashkovskiy Sun 18th Jan 09 Great that finally AB expanded Russian range for 1805-1807 battles. Greatcoats were favorable clothes for Russian soldiers on campaign, even in warm weather greatcoats were worn without green jacket on active service, according to Russian military uniform books. Each Grenadier\musketeer regiment had three operational battalions on the field in 1805-07. First battalion of each infantry regiment was named Grenadier. All 4 companies of the grenadier battalion consisted entirely of grenadiers dressed in shako with thick black plume or in mitres which were also in use at least buy several regiments even in 1807. Two other battalions of grenadier regiment called Fusiliers, each consisted of 4 companies only of Fusiliers. Fusiliers dressed in shako with thick black plume, but without grenade badge in the center of shako. Singleflamed brass badge located under the round orange cockade was the only distinctive symbol of grenadiers on new shako in 1805-1807 period. But not all regiments changed to new shako decree and some fusilier battalions continued to use mitre version headgear. So fusilier standard bearer miniature in mitre would be correct in fusilier battalion. I also would like to say that of course it would be great and appropriate to release grenadiers in greatcoats and in mitres. Spontoons not famous but were sill in use buy more than half NCO of the battalion and sometimes by officers on the field. It would be also nice to have them in greatcoats. Best wishes to creator. New figures are really excellent. Leon Leese Mon 30th Mar 09 Detail and animation of 28mm Fit an 18mm base! I've seen the ads in my copy of General de Brigade for AB but are these available of the shelf in the UK? Or do I have to order and wait? ... :-(

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