Silver Bayonet bestiary

Parallel with painting my French warband I started work on the bestiary, the human and non-human foes you may end up fighting. We'll start with a totally normal soldier in napoleonic garb, there's nothing fishy about this guy at all, is there?

Oh no, it's a vampire!

This vampire is made from a German WWII body and arms, hands from some Mantic ghouls, backpack from napoleonic French, and the head of Zacharias the Everliving. You might think this is sacrilege, but he was lying literally armless in my bits box, and without his dragon, so I didn't really have a better use for him.

Next we have a black dog, a 3D print from Greenstuff World. I'm a bit worried about how fragile the resin is, but 10 dogs were cheaper than buying most metal single dogs, so...

Here are some bandits I cobbled together from plastic I had. First we have four Russian WWII bodies, three of them with medieval phrygian caps (which were in vogue in revolutionary France), and one head from a British Zulu War guy. They guy to the left is a TYW guy. Most of them have muskets from a box of ACW zouaves.

The last four bandits are three Prussian landwehr from the old Warlord set, and one Gripping Beast Dark Age warrior with a new musket.

Last we have a cute doggo I got free in an order of 3D printed stuff. Might get a use?

 

Starting The Silver Bayonet

When Osprey had a sale before Christmas I bought a few books, and one of those was The Silver Bayonet by Joseph A McCullough. I mainly bought it to check it out, I do enjoy his other games, after all, but of course I got inspired and started checking out what figures I had. I've never played any Napoleonic games before, but surprisingly enough I did have a few figures available. I had Baron Larrey's ambulance (got it free from Warlord ten years ago), a free sprue of French line infantry, and one of the old sprues of Prussians. So, ok, French it is! My idea was to do this on the cheap, so I'll try to work with what I have.

 

First here is Baron Larrey, who'll be my officer, and a doctor. We also have two infantrymen.

Next up we have a sailor, a grenadier, a junior officer and an occultist.

These have been more or less converted. The sailor is made from a Pike&Shotte flintlock, with pistolhand from a cavalryman, and the other arm from a Frostgrave cultist. The junior officer has a pistol and sword from P&S, and I sculpted a furlined hussar's (?) jacket over his shoulder so he looks a bit special, and to cover where the musket used to be. The occultist has Frostgrave magician arms, a body from a ACW zouave officer, and the head from the line infantry. The bicorne is made from greenstuff.

Next we have some wolves. I cast these in a Prince August mould more than 30 years ago, but they'll do.

 

 Here are some gravestones which are needed for a scenario. They're made from sprues and a few bits.

I also finished an Aragorn, from Mithril Miniatures. This is the fourth Aragorn sculpt I paint. :)