This Life in Lead

It is always a nice feeling when an army is completed, especially when it has been sitting in boxes for the best part of twelve years in the...

The last of the units for this 15mm Portuguese project; some recently completed Portuguese militia battalions: As with ...

I probably should have put the Portuguese part of the title to this post in quotation marks as they are essentially a mixture of Austrian an...

Possibly one of the biggest problems the Portuguese cavalry faced at the beginning of the Peninsular War was a lack of definition as to exac...

A  compromise here, in that I have utilised Essex British 1815 artillery as a proxy for Portuguese batteries. This is mainly because Essex t...

The last five battalions of Cacadores for my 15mm Portuguese army. The first two represent the 3rd Villa Real and the 6th Porto, while the r...

I have recently managed to complete four Portuguese Cacadore  battalions, starting with the 1st Castello de Vide regiment: ...

The last two of my 15mm Portuguese line regiments just completed, making eight in all (or the equivalent of sixteen battalions). Firstly, th...

Another four regiments, or eight battalions of nineteen figures each, completed over the past couple of months. Firstly, the first and sec...

Here are the first two regiments of my 15mm project completed. Firstly, two battalions of the 2nd Lagos regiment: Esse...