'Empire' From RafaelO: The last stand of the Imperial Old Guard (114 points)

Hello everyone!

This year’s Empire Theme Challenge couldn’t have come at a better time for my painting plans, as I’m currently working on a Napoleonic French army.

With the goal of creating a base that represents the Emperor himself and can serve as my HQ for games, I decided to use a painting by Charles Steuben as my main source of inspiration.

Napoleon's Return to France, painted by Charles Steuben in 1818.

To achieve this, I used 12 Imperial Old Guard Grenadiers from the Zvezda 8030 box, along with the Napoleon miniature from Italeri’s French Headquarters set. As a companion to Napoleon, I wanted to include one of his followers wearing a more distinctive uniform: the Mameluke Ali dit Saint-Denis.

The last Stand of the Imperial Old Guard, 1815.

The painting process was fairly straightforward. I applied a white Tamiya spray primer to all the miniatures. Most of the colors come from Vallejo’s Xpress Color range or Citadel Contrast paints. Afterwards, I added a couple of highlights to enhance the final finish.

In summary

12 x 20 mm Infantry models @ 4 points = 48 points.

2 x 20mm Mounted model @ 8 points = 16 points.

plus 50 points by Empire entry

Total 114 points.

Cheers,

Rafa