"1st attempt at napoleonic figures" Topic

So I've finally finished some napoleonic figures and thought I'd post a photo to make sure I'm doing it right. These are 10th hussars from Waterloo. If I've done anything majorly wrong please let me know (but be kind, I'm quite new to the hobby and totally new to napoleonic

Don't zoom in too much, you'll see all the mistakes ( for instance I've missed half a moustache, didn't notice until I zoomed into the photo)

They look great to me!

Looking good, put the rest up when you have done them.

Good Work!!

They look just fine to me!

Painting the 15th and 10th Hussars myself right now, which is the only reasomn I have the following information right to hand:

The 10th (Prince of Wales' Own, and by 1811, added the "Royal" designation), underwent a bewildering series of uniform changes with facing color changing from yellow to red (1811), then blue collars and cuffs by Waterloo. Head gear changed from fur Busbys (grey with red bag for officers, brown with yellow bag for men), then black shakos, then the red shakos worn at Waterloo. In the earlier part of the wars, the fur on the pelisse was grey for officers, white for the men, but it seems that by Waterloo the fur may have been black as depicted in the plate in the Osprey.

British Hussar uniforms are enough to drive a wargamer-painter insane!

Really nice job. If that's how you're painting now, the future should be amazing.

Nicely done!

My first Napoleonics looked like they were painted by an ape (well, they kind of were)

Looking forward to seeing more of your work

Only thing wrong is they need some comrades.
Good job.

British Hussar uniforms are enough to drive a wargamer-painter insane!

Gonsalvo, caring about British Hussar uniforms is proof we are already insane.

Happy hiker, those are fine. Never worry about detail beyond what YOU need to be happy--and the same with accuracy. Uniforms change year to year, and there will always be some nitpicker--sometimes it's been me--to tell you that the uniform you chose was replaced the year before--or that the authorized new uniform hadn't really been issued yet. Sometimes I think you could define a wargame as an event in which uniforms are right for the period, but probably not right for the specific battle.

Thanks guys. I'm quite pleased with them, but they took ages to do. All that flipping braid. Technically the braid should have been yellow for privates, but I'd already done some gold, and the yellow looked rubbish compared to the gold so I decided to just have very 'shiny yellow' braid. Napoleonic is much harder to paint than orcs, or knights. I've started Waterloo period because my son got the warlord starter set, but as that only allows 3-4 battles we'll have to have peninsular wars in the wrong hats and french in overcoats despite the Spanish sun. They will no doubt fight the orcs at some point too.

A person starting in Naps and doing Hussars. Talk about jumping in at the deep end. Well done.

Very nice. Keep up the good work.

Great job with on a tough subject! Attaboy! It looks like you don't have many pose selections to work with, but one suggestion I would make is to base figures with arms extended beyond the horse's flank on the inside of the base. Tends to avoid damage IMHO.

Yeah I struggled with the poses. Though basing for defence sounds like a good idea. They are perry plastic, you get either a charge arm or an at rest on shoulder arm. I've done a bit more variety for the other 8. (Why do you get 14 guys in some boxes and 12 in others I'll have 2 extra guys for black powder?). I started with hussars because I didn't know they were hard just pure ignorance on my part. Hopefully the line infantry will be easier. Thanks for the encouragement.

Line infantry will be dead easy, once you have suited out facing colours, plume colours, whether they should be in stovepipe or Belgic shako, white trousers or grey overalls, bastion or square ended lace and lace in singles pairs or threes! Oh, and don't forget light infantry and grenadier distinctions. Dead easy!!
Your hussars are great by the way.

They look great! Not sure if it's just the photo but the top of their Shako's should be red. It's only a band of white around the top.

IMO you only need to get as detailed as your audience needs, lucky for me thats pretty much just me. But I try my best at the time I'm painting them.

Doh ! Red tops then, at least that's easy to fix. I'm learning the top and the backs are actually the most visible and therefore important. I've always concentrated on the front, which no one sees.

Not sure about the lace on infantry,I'm just going to assume warlord got it right I,m going to do 69th foot (I'm from Derby) and 1st foot I assume there's nothing weird about them?

Those look great. Continue to go with what makes you happiest.

Very well done indeed for a first outing , and you didn't give yourself an easy job!
Actually the top of the shako should actually be black, since it was leather, though I have seen a re-enactors' reconstruction where it was red-brown : take your pic.
But it was always leather of some sort rather than cloth.The body was felt covered in red cloth, with a white worsted lace band around the top .

I sit corrected, well done Anthony.

So I finally finished these guys, though I've done red tops now 😱several other people on google images have done the same. I reckon red leather anyway.😀. Having seen how much room they take up on a table I wonder if I should have done 2 different battalions? Rather than a massive one of 14.

Anyway here they are, I just need to do some french for them to fight. Thanks for looking and all the encouragement.

Look great, missing a few carbines here and there?

Thanks. Errm…. yeah.. carbines… I didn't know what they were so I threw them away with the rest of the sprues.! Then when I Worked it out it was too late. I figure poor supply lines. Oops.

Errm…. yeah.. I didn't know what they were so I threw them away with the rest of the sprues.! Then when I Worked it out it was too late. I figure poor supply lines. Oops.