"AB French in greatcoats skirmishing" Topic

Just finished them tonight.

Just need to finish basing them.

Very nice. I just got some of the earlier revolutionary period French in greatcoats from AB and they are lovely figures. Hopefully I can paint them as well as yours.

Cheers. Look forward to seeing them. I've tried a few manufacturers and nothing I've found matches AB for quality.

You've done a great job on them. Got a few of these to do myself at some point.

Looking good!! I have a whole division in bicorne waiting to be painted.

Thanks for the positive feedback. I'm doing the later period but I've read that some of the provisional regiments were issued with bicornes as late as1812. If i can be reasonably sure this was the case then I may get a few units in bicornes too.

Very nice! What did you use for the snow??

It's wet "grey pumice" actually…although I'm thinking the snowy look quite suits the figures.

Looks good. I don't understand the skirmishing grenadiers though. Must be some scenario you're working on. Do you have a blog?

The guys in with epaulettes? They're painted as light infantry carabiniers.

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With the greatcoats they'll be almost identical to a line grenadier company – trousers are blue however (mostly).

Whoops, my last post was a bit garbled..I meant to say…"the guys with red epaulettes?"

Mark,

Well the striped pants aren't issued garments, so I was thinking you were doing a more campaign look. I don't know if carabiniers would be tossed forward for skirmishing with voltiguers. Since the chasseur campanies skirmish, I would presume they would be up there and the carabiniers forming the reserve – unless you intend to represent entire battalions in skirmish formation?

At any rate, I like your figures. I have some of these exact figures and I really think the simplicity of overcoats is a good thing at times. We all like the pretty uniforms but sometimes as gamers we forget weather effects on battles.

Oh, they're definitely meant to look like they're on campaign.

I didn't know that about carabiniers – I assumed the whole regiment could be called upon to skirmish.

Just started by the big guy tonight…still a long way to go before he's finished.

Looking good!

Wasn't he taller than that……….? (grin)

Maybe a little, but bear in mind AB are 'large' 15mm

And now pretty much finished. I'll give him a couple of aides / bodyguards. All based for FoGN.

He looks beautiful – it's a bit of a shame there is no room for staff on there – the AB set is really lovely.

very nice figures and excellent painting, I would have to convert them a bit to add bayonets otherwise don't worry about grenadiers or any other French infantry skirmishing, they all could and did it.

Cheers von Winterfeldt. I agree that fixed bayonets would look nice…however, I do find that I'm quite prone to losing the odd bayonet one way or another, so for me it's quite practical to have them without.

Finished Napoleon with Roustam

Lovely finish Mark,
Amaing shading you have achieved and the eyes to by the looks of it.

Thanks Paul. I wouldn't normally attempt this much detail, but I think for characters / individuals it's worth the extra effort.

Absolutely! You and the other guys doing the little big man over the past year has got me thinking of doing my own. I have cleaned them up. Just need to get the right base/bases now.

Look forward to seeing more of your figures Mark.