Napoleonic Conversions

Dated: 5/12/97, updated June 6, 1998.

Our first set

The following conversions were the first ever sent to us and shown on this web site. The contributor is Mr. Chris D'Arcy from New York. He has since sent us many more conversions and is currently not only converting them but casting them as well. These are all Napoleonic foot figures.


The above scan shows from left to right:
-- Bavarian 14th Line Infantry Regiment (1809) NCO, converted from a ESCI French Line NCO with ESCI Austrian Infantry head(gear).
-- Dutch 16th Jager (1815), a stock ESCI British Line Infantry bugler with some adroit re-arrangement of the Belgic shako, the fake front extension is chopped off and the plume is moved from the left to the front.
-- Brunswick Jager Avantegarde (1815), this is converted from a ESCI British Line infantryman with head(gear) from ESCI WWII British Commonwealth figure.


The above scan shows from left to right:
-- Brunswick ensign from the 1st line battalion (1815). This is an ESCI British Line Infantry ensign with a ESCI Russian Grenadier head(gear).
-- Fusilier of the 6th Infantry or the 1st West Prussian Regiment (1814-1815). It appears to be converted from a ESCI Prussian infantryman with a (of all things) Scots Greys head(gear), quite a neat trick as even though the Greys wore bearskins whilst the Prussian Line wore shakos, they look indistinguishable under the waterproof.


The above is an 1815 Nassau Jager of the 1st infantry regiment. The shako is also most certainly a ESCI French Line shako, the body is ESCI French Imperial Guard.

The following are two Colonial era British highlanders are sent in by another contributor, Arlin Tawzer.

The trunk is ESCI British and the kilt Italeri Napoleonic Highlander.

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