La Bricole Painting Competition (Part 6) / 4th Marine Regiment

There is about one week let to go till the deadline for the La Bricole painting competition but I managed to get the 2nd battalion of the 4ème Régiment d’Artillerie de la marine (the third to be painted) done. So now all three battalions and therefore the whole regiment are finished. I have to say, that I am quiet happy I chose this unit for th competition. Since they wore dark blue coats over dark blue uniforms, they were not the most diverse unit to paint and it became a chore somewhere along the way. I had been sure, that this would be the case and pledging to paint all three battalions as part of a competition was my trick to keep me going. And it worked! Plus I am really happy with the result no matter how they do in the competition.

Without much further ado… here they are:

4e - 2 Régiment d'Artillerie de la marine

4e - 2 Régiment d'Artillerie de la marine command stand

To keep with the maritime theme for those battalions not issued with an eagle, I carved a fish from a piece of plastic for the finial here. I had planned it to look like the fish used to indicate rounds raced in the ancient Circus Maximus in Rome, but it came out rather longish and looks more like a trout. Unfortunately, I took this photo at an agle where you see it from the front, but it shows on some of the unit shots.

4e - 2 Régiment d'Artillerie de la marine 1st stand

4e - 2 Régiment d'Artillerie de la marine 2nd stand

4e - 2 Régiment d'Artillerie de la marine 3rd stand

4e - 2 Régiment d'Artillerie de la marine 4th stand

4e - 2 Régiment d'Artillerie de la marine 5th stand

While these two skirmishers were painted when I did the first battalion, they belong to the second (the only one large enough to deploy skirmishers under the R2E rules) so here they are again.

4e Régiment d'Artillerie de la marine skirmishers front

4e Régiment d'Artillerie de la marine skirmishers back

And last… the whole regiment deployed one battalion behind the other.

4e - Régiment d'Artillerie de la marine, all 3 battalions

4e - Régiment d'Artillerie de la marine, all 3 battalions

In total these are 66 minis. 64 of them are Victrix from the old Guard and Infantry boxed sets with shakos in place of the bearskin caps. Two minis are from Perry.

One last comment one these… Victrix minis have a reputation of bayonets breaking. I have not had a single broken bayonet with any of the 64 Victrix minis here and I did not treat them any “nicer” then I would metal minis. I even dared to put a shako on top the plastic sword of the officer for the first battalion and it did not break off. So if anything I can attest to them being robust.