Post by waynew on Jan 2, 2024 2:23:40 GMT
Some years ago I set up a portion of my Napoleonic French and Russian Armies on our family dining room table (it's quite large, our oldest son built it to seat twelve adults - our five sons and their wives - kids go into the "kids table"). I had a great time setting the guys up and taking pix of them. I envisioned a Borodino-type confrontation but didn't do a lot of research into the battle, though I had studied it in my graduate work. But I was having fun and even though I included a "redoubt" in the scene I didn't want to call it Borodino lest someone spot I had the 3rd Pommeranian Piccolo Players in the wrong place (they weren't anywhere near the battlefield at the time anyway, they'd found a nice village with a kabak with friendly peasant maids to sit the battle out); so I just left it unnamed.
Last week I discovered the pictures and decided to have some fun with them. Here are some of the results, I hope you enjoy them.
ADDENDUM: I just remembered these pictures were to be part of the Grand Finale of my Russia 1812 continuing story of a French major assigned to gather stragglers and wagons fallen behind the Grand Army during the Russian Campaign. After surviving numerous skirmishes with Cossack raiders, guerillas, and various militia units his band of troops he's managed to organize into a fairly reliable unit finds itself in the great battle. I remember now I was concentrating more on telling the major's experiences in the unit (sort of "War and Peace" with apologies to Tolstoy) than presenting a point-by-point accurate representation of the battle itself. I just thought it might be of interest to anyone seeing these pix.
Last week I discovered the pictures and decided to have some fun with them. Here are some of the results, I hope you enjoy them.
ADDENDUM: I just remembered these pictures were to be part of the Grand Finale of my Russia 1812 continuing story of a French major assigned to gather stragglers and wagons fallen behind the Grand Army during the Russian Campaign. After surviving numerous skirmishes with Cossack raiders, guerillas, and various militia units his band of troops he's managed to organize into a fairly reliable unit finds itself in the great battle. I remember now I was concentrating more on telling the major's experiences in the unit (sort of "War and Peace" with apologies to Tolstoy) than presenting a point-by-point accurate representation of the battle itself. I just thought it might be of interest to anyone seeing these pix.
