Wednesday, 22 January 2025

French line infantry Napoleonic 59

 Here's another unit of mostly Perry plastic French line infantry , they will be flag less until I'm home for more than 48 hours when I hope to flag them up.  The second unit I was working on in the previous wip photo are very nearly done but will have to be finished after Easter when I'm home, in the meantime I'm painting two more French line units, you can never have too many I feel! The commander is Victrix as are the eagle arms, the drummer is a Perry line infantry figure with spare arms and an ACW Confederate drum, there's a couple of warlord figures who came free with a magazine who have been press ganged to make up the numbers! 












I'm pretty happy with how these have turned out and am happily on a roll now as I'm going to knock out four more before moving on to anything else as I'm finding them particularly relaxing to do!

Next up, well more French line of course! 

All the best

 Iain 


38 comments:

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    1. Thanks a lot Michal!
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  2. Being able to churn out masses of Frenchmen while away is a great accomplishment, Iain!

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    1. Thanks Jonathan!
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  3. You can never have too many. That's the most accurate truth ever spoken

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    1. I think we are in full agreement Suber!
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    1. Thanks a lot Ray! Hope you're enjoying the challenge!
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  5. Looking good!
    I hear being home is mostly overrated.
    Mostly. 😀

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    1. Thanks Stew, even my wife checked I had enough" little men "to keep me happy on the trip!
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    1. Thanks a lot Chris!
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  7. Nice work, a grand addition to your army, building up very nicely.

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    1. Thanks Donnie, certainly building up!
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  8. Nice work on these Iain, no one ever had too many line infantry, including Napoleon!

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    1. Thanks Keith! You're not wrong!
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  9. Great work on those Iain and always great to be able to use those odd figures here and there to finish a unit, as well as the fun of a bit of 'converting':).

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    1. Yes nice to mix it up, ever so slightly!
      Best Iain caveadsum1471

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  10. You can't have too many French line. Lovely work on these Iain, particularly with the conversions.

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    1. Thanks very much Lawrence!
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  11. Iain, first or last, some fine looking French. Converting them to suit needs, really is fun and you did it well. More to come will be a treat.

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    1. Thanks Joe, more to come very soon!
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  12. Great looking unit Iain, and you can't tell that the models come from different places, as your painting has tied them together perfectly.

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    1. Thanks very much Dave!
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  13. Good to see someone else has been busy with a brush. You must have the worlds largest Napoleonic collection by now mate.

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    1. Not quite as busy as you , you sound like my wife!
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  14. You have every right to be happy with those Iain. Nice work.
    Chris

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    1. Thanks very much Chris!
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  15. Very nice Iain…
    You can never have too many targets (French 😁) in your collection.

    All the best. Aly

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    1. Thanks Aly, I'm usually Austrian if I play at the club so targets are fair!
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    1. Thanks very much Fitz!
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  17. Very, very nice paint job Iain.

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    1. Thanks Richard, very kind of you!
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  18. Nice looking unit, and glad you were able to fill up the ranks with what you had!

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    1. Thanks SD, yes the press gang were hot!
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  19. Nicely done Iain …as to having too many I’m developing a view that the number is limited by the size of the table you have ?

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    1. Thanks Matt, you are no doubt right, but if I've made them, I'm painting them!
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