“Has Wellington nothing to offer me but these Amazons?”

I doubt the above quote was ever uttered by Napoleon himself; probably just a good line for a movie (‘Waterloo’, 1970) said while the Emperor was watching the approaching British army. Either way, I liked it.

The brief for this project was ‘sexy women at war’, so expanding on the Waterloo/Napoleonic theme of my basecard painting for this set… (prints available here)

‘Andraste of Waterloo’

‘Andraste of Waterloo’ detail,

‘Andraste of Waterloo’ detail

…I imagined what it would be like if the British had some Regency-era ‘Amazons’ in their midst during the Napoleonic Wars.

These are all the sketch cards I did for the ‘Bombshells’ trading cards.

Captain Helena

“Sergeant Sarah Stoker’s concealed dagger…”

Major Isadora

Lieutenant Rose Fairly

“Emma Morgan, Lieutenant of HMS Victory”

Captain Alexandra Winter

‘It was hot and dirty work for the gunners at Trafalgar who rejoiced when the battle was over.’

Major Gwendolyn Godwin

Scarlet

Ruby

Lady Cora

Captain Ophelia

“Captain Victoria Hart, Heavy Artillery.”

Lucy, the General’s daughter

General Guinevere Stone

Captain London’s wife

Lieutenant Emily Rove

Lady Violet

‘Olivia Black and Marianne Dauphin meet again…’

Peace