"Victrix Plastic Napoleonic Brits" Topic

The Victrix website now has more pictures of the forthcoming British infantry. They look good and are good value at £19.99 GBP for 52 figures. The website says the French will be next and they are going to do them in 1805 to 1812 uniform and a choice of shako or bicorne. Hopefully they will go for a march attack type pose as opposed to the mix of advancing/marching/firing line of the Brits as this will be much more useful when forming columns. What do you guys think?
Cheers, Simon

nice.

- the French will be next and they are going to do them in 1805 to 1812 uniform –

Now that's good news!

Here is a link to their web site

victrixlimited.com

I'm really looking forward to these. I can finally start my War of 1812 project!

Are they released? I go to the webstore and put a couple of boxes in my cart and they say they are out of stock.

According to the site they are aiming at a September release date.

Too good to be true……? Roll on September. Roll on the French!

New toys! Yipiiiiieeeeee!!!!

If they made Spanish and Guerrillas I will be ecstatic!

Arr, these are fantastic – but….I …….hate…..making…plastics….I will thole it, cos they look fabby.

What poses would you like to see for the French, A uniform one such as march attack or mixed like the British?

Nice figure, and I will have to get some undoubtedly. Wonder whether they will match up with Perry's coming plastics.

It would be nice to see the plastics ranges coming out be filled out prior to them moving on. Warlord seems to be doing this. However, Victrix is doing both Peninsula and Waterloo at the same time. I would prefer they do one or the other first and fill out everything they are going to do on that period before launching into another line.

Looking Good!

Although like I think I said before, the muskets are way to big!

Need to see these a Newbury to check 'in the flesh' though.

They are large but they aren't quite GW hand weapon large yet. Maybe there is something in plastic that makes weapons grow.

The guys at Victrix are very good at replying to emails. The French set will have a large percentage in march attack pose but with some firing line types too. They hope to do a greatcoat set and leger set next year depending on how well things go. Cheers, Simon

"depending on how well things go" –

Can't they hear us drooling in anticipation? Only question, can I paint my Perry ACW fast enough not to create a plastics backlog as well as a metal one?

Great pictures on their website. the Price is attractive too. You could make a 28mm army for the price of 15mm.Hopefully they will make Rifles, Spanish and Portugese also. Also with the Waterloo British plus Perry's Waterloo French Dutch Belgians and Brunswickers you could play the 100 days campaign

"Only question, can I paint my Perry ACW fast enough not to create a plastics backlog as well as a metal one?"

Look on the bright side, at least it wont weigh as much!

To make a balance regt or two, you would need up to nine boxes of centre companies for every flank company! Is my maths correct? In 15mm or less you could quite easily not bother with the flank coys, but in 28mm it would definelty stand out … theses are very tempting.

Not quite, Royal Marine – there are two flank companies (1 Grenadier, 1 Light) for every eight centre companies – so the ratio is 1:4. I'm hoping that surplus flank company figures, by changing the shako plate to a bugle horn, can become Light Infantry battalions.

Hmm. Ok, so the thing about making Light Infantry out of Centre Coy figs would of course only work with Peninsular Brits.

So five boxes then to make balanced forces … or share with a buddy. At 52 figures per box, that's 260 figures!

I think you could also use some of the flank company figures for Fusilier regts as yhey wore the same shoulder pads.

I suggested they make some Americans for the War of 1812 but that does not seem to be popular enough to justify the models. He did say there is a tiny possibility that they will make a conversion kit some day……wish I enjoyed the Napoleonic wars because the figures are full of character.

I allready have alot of 15mm british peninsula.

so I probebly won't start another penunsula project. but mabye a waterloo.

I have to find a british divion that fought a French one at the battle.

puts on resarch goggles

I emailed Steve from Victrix about which brand would match Victrix and he told me that they would closely match the Perry's Naps.

That's a good new as Perry doesn't produce any Naps Brits for now.

The plus is the hard plastic multipose figures,52 in a set thus allowing almost endless possibilities.

With the future release of the Brit Cavalry, the charge of the Household Brigade at Waterloo won't be no more a dream !

With the French, Dutch and others Perry's Naps (they are starting producing plastic Naps too) the gap will be filled thanks to Victrix.

The 4:1 ratio will drop when you start making skirmish screens etc using the flank coys… Also I notice there is a covered shako in there …need a few boxes then for a couple of 48 man Guards bttns
so 260 figs….for "proper" ( ;o) ) rules at 1:20 thats a piddly 8 btns plus a few skirmishers….so about twice that would be start, (plus the highlanders, rifles,Guards..)

I was just wondering will having a pile of unpainted plastic keep you immortal like unpainted lead will?

My junior school teacher in 1956 told me that there was no such word as BRIT and to use it was an insult. I think she was, and is, still correvct.

Britt Ekland may demur with that remark.

Would anyone else interested in a War of 1812 American conversion kit please let Victrix know?….thank you.