Two pieces of Portuguese artillery. 

The uniforms are so simple they were very easy and quick to paint.

A Portuguese limber. This piece needs some explaining. Front Rank don’t make a Portuguese limber.

I had to convert a British one. Here the two are pictured side by side. The conversion was a simple one. 

After removing the figures head, the outer rows of buttons had to be cut off and scraped smooth with a scalpel. Then a new head in a Portuguese stovepipe shako was pinned and glued into place.

Shoulder wings were added with Milliput. This was applied as a thin sheet and smoothed out before being cut to shape with a scalpel. I could have gone the paper or thick foil route but the putty solution was quicker and easier.

Lastly, swords were added. The ones I used were a fudge because they are all I had. These are plastic French dragoon swords, with sword knots cut away, from a two figure sprue I had to hand – they should be sabres. Sword belts were added using Milliput in a similar way to how the shoulder wings were done.

And there you have it: A Portuguese limber!

Last up, five skirmish stands of Cacadores to bolster a Divisions skirmish factors when a battalion of Cacadores is present. 

Round stands are by War Bases. Other stands are home cut from MDF sheet.

These are the 6th, The yellow cuffs and collars make them stand out a bit.

So, that’s it for now. 

I now only have three batches of figures to do (four units) and stage one of the project will be finished.

Stage two, or at least 80% of it, has arrived from Front Rank, one parcel a week for the last four weeks. What I have to do is ignore it by telling myself it’s on another planet until stage one is done and dusted, hopefully by the end of the summer.