Sunday, March 19, 2017

Only took a few years

Hi all,

So, many (many) moons ago, I started picking away at some 1/72 French, part of my ongoing existential crisis about what scale in which to play the period.  Finally, after some internet-based inspiration (I'm look at you Johnny Rosbif) and a trip to Benno's Forum, I finished up the last base for the first complete unit of French.

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The original plan was to use these for Black Powder, if and when I actually get enough painted up to play.  Basing is a little unconventional for those rules, but should work just fine.  I stuck with the larger, almost element basing I started out with, for much the same reason - it looks good, and deals with the overhang that results from the use of multiple poses in 1/72 ranges.

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I've got some voltigeurs to use for skirmish markers, and have some French Hussars up and prepped as a next step.  I figure I'll paint these guys until I start to get bored, them maybe go back to some GW stuff.  In the mean time, I'm scratching a historical itch, and enjoying myself in the doing.

FMB

12 comments:

  1. And a fine lot they are! The best stews take some cooking :)

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  2. Enjoying yourself is enough really but the finished unit looks really good as well!

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  3. Nice work. Now you should do them in 15mm, 10mm and 6mm too.:)

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  4. Nah, 15mm will be Russians ;) 6 too, for that matter.

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  5. Lovely work there, FMB. Thanks for the shout-out, too!

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  6. Well done, basing and painting...

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  7. Brilliant brushwork! Good to see a return to historicals.

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  8. Nice job, agreed plastics can be problematical as some makers still insist on useless poses in sets.

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  9. Excellent work Markus!

    Greetings
    Peter

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  10. Brilliant brushwork! Good to see a return to historicals.

    thanks for sharing...

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    gclub

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