28mm Portuguese 23rd (2nd Almeida) Regiment (Elite Miniatures) – The Woolshed Wargamer

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28mm Portuguese 23rd (2nd Almeida) Regiment (Elite Miniatures)

My first regiment of Portuguese for my Anglo-Portuguese Army. This is the 1st Battalion, 23rd (2nd Almeida) Regiment. I have the 2nd Battalion of the same regiment on the painting blocks now. These are nice animated Elite Miniatures cast up by Nathan Vinson at Elite Miniatures Australia. The flag is from Warflags and is probably…

January 31, 2015

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28mm, Elite Miniatures, Napoleonic, Peninsular War, Portuguese

My first regiment of Portuguese for my Anglo-Portuguese Army. This is the 1st Battalion, 23rd (2nd Almeida) Regiment. I have the 2nd Battalion of the same regiment on the painting blocks now. These are nice animated Elite Miniatures cast up by Nathan Vinson at Elite Miniatures Australia. The flag is from Warflags and is probably wrong but as usual – I don’t care.

And here is Our Nellie keeping watch over the troops.

And of course Jasper is King of All he Surveys.

The good news at the Woolshed is that we have had some rain. The ground is still very dry but if we get another three days of even this light rain the grass will take off again.

7 responses to “28mm Portuguese 23rd (2nd Almeida) Regiment (Elite Miniatures)”

jaspersdoggyworld

January 31, 2015 at 11:10 pm

Reblogged this on jaspersdoggyworld and commented:
See how famous, Me and Nellie are.

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Carlo

February 1, 2015 at 9:37 am

Look great Brian – lovely figures.

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1. briansmaller
  
  February 1, 2015 at 5:22 pm
  
  Thanks – they were great to paint. Best Elite figs I have done so far.
  
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Phil

February 1, 2015 at 10:01 am

Great job on this unit!

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1. briansmaller
  
  February 1, 2015 at 5:23 pm
  
  Don’t look too closely:) Actually I enjoyed doing these guys. Second battalion ready for undercoating now.
  
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Kawe Weissi-Zadeh

February 4, 2015 at 5:10 pm

Lovely miniatures. Very well painted.

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