"French revolutionary mob figs?" Topic

Who makes these? Someone, I assume…after all, the even have their own hit Andrew Lloyd Weber musical!

For 28mm: Foundry. Sculped by the Perry twins long ago. But are expensive. There are armed civilians (polearms/muskets), unarmed civilians, a guillotine and a female figure inspired in Delacroix painting. I love this one.
I have the guillotine and some figures. They are really nice but a little bit smaller than the "heroic scale".

I think that Eureka has them planned in their 300 club.

15mm: I think that Magister Militum and maybe Minifigs have them but I'm not really in 15mm.

Hope it helps

Magister Militum has the old Chariot Miniatures 15mm "Revolutionary Mob" – and damn'd good they are, too. There's women, sans culottes and folk with heads on pikes.

Convert French Vendeens / Chouans, by turning the round hats to tricornes -read it's not too difficult -even without resorting to headswapping- specially for a mob where 'uniformity' is not required, is even to be avoided.
Foundry had a few, most link come from Alain Touller link but I don't know about their availability outside France (or at least the EC?).
Perhaps 25mm rather than 'heroic' 28 mm, but in may experience it's not a problem to drastically increase the thickness of the base for 'irregulars' that are not mixed with minis from other ranges -and peopla rea not eaqually tall in reality, and 'leaders' can be 'larger than life'.

Yes, I agree with abdul666lw,

I had forgotten Alain Touller. They are really nice and you have all the personalities of the "Chouannerie": La Rochejacqueline, Charette…

Whatever happened to the old Old Glory figures from back in the last century?

Todd Fisher might still have a few thousand painted civilians that he might want to get rid of. He did that huge Attack on the Tuileries Palace wargame back in the 1990s.

In 15mm Minifigs have Vendee rebels with an assortment of headgear: top hats, round hats, kerchiefs. They are armed with muskets, blunderbuss, scythes and swords. A woman has two muskets. There are 12 poses in the pack of 24.

This is no longer on their website but I got some by asking.

Must be a US-only pack, I don't think Minifigs UK have those (or do they?).

I got mine from Minifigs US – but they weren't on the website. Perhaps Minifigs UK has them but also not listed?

Alain Touller also does the Vendee in 15mm link so you can mix these into your Minifigs and Magister Militum.

The minifigs vendee are just sold by minifigs US. They also have (had ?) a guillotine, afaik the only guillotine in 15mm. Foundry has one in 25mm (and one is available in 20mm plastic to be complete).
The best in 15mm are Alain Touller, the one time I ordered from them (inside Europe) they had a good postal service.
Other Vendee in 15mm are Magister (old chariot french revolutionary; picures are on their website. The other 15mm ones are Lancashire and the mentioned minifigs. Maybe some old glory Tyroleans (the one without lederhose I must add) or AWI rebels in various 15 ranges could be used.
In 25/28mm of course the Foundry and Alan Touller and maybe futere Eureka (or some tyrolean). When you be selective AWI ebels could be drafted in

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Jan, DdL
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I mentioned in another post I have a single civilian figure I made w/ top hat Count Bezukhov (Pierre from War And Peace). in 15mm, but was wondering does any company make civilians for different periods?

Andrew Lloyd Weber's ones (or, really, Victor Hugo's ones)weren't from the French Revolution, but from a later period. Was it 1848? I'm not sure.

I thought Old Glory 15s still has the Battle Honours French Revolutionary troops in 15mm, but they will cast them only on special order. There used to be a Paris Mob package.

I'll get my knitting and do the cackling laugh thingy :)

in 28mm, I painted some of the Foundry Mob as Vendeens

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The Guillotine is very nice

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Olivier

I think FreiCorps have some figures from the 1870 Paris Commune which might be suitable; and isn't "Les Miserables" set partly at the time of "les Trois Glorieuses", that is, the three-day Rising of 1830?

The Magister Militum range is really good – lots of different figures in your mob.

Andrew Lloyd Webber did not write LES MIS, it was a couple of French blokes & yes the uprising is the one fronm the 1830s

The "couple" being Victor and Hugo, presumably?

The Musical was by Alain Boublil and Claude-Michel Schönberg, with lyrics by Herbert Kretzmer

The real 1832 uprising was quite different to the literary one, very few students were involved.

Trent have just released Italian armed civilians for their Revolutionary range, which might work-they seem to have separate heads as well.
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Does not Trent has aregular distributor now (think it was mentioned in a 'Irishs of the 1790' thread here?)

Northstar, although I bought a load off Dave T at Colours this year

Sorry, should have said 28mm…

Does anyone know if the 15mm Minifigs Vendee rebels and revolutionary personalities available from Minifigs USA are by the same sculptor as the rest of the Minifigs range? They are not available in the UK so I was wondering if they are in fact a different type of figure being sold under the Minifigs banner?