"Napoleonic British Infantry Standing at Ease" Topic

Always nice to have some relaxed "reserve" infantry

I bought the new Strelets marching figures and they were very nice, so I hope these will come out the mould as good

I checked the link. It is not clear…(it never is, we must just assume the scale and the material)

But I quickly realised…this quality, those nice proportions like human beings, the sensible posings…the variety

They must be 1/72………. metal……German

Weep…sob….(the 1/72 bit I stress)

No! Strelets!!! Plastic….(the cross posting might have warned me)….blimey. Mind you, who says they are "British" anyway????

"Ah ha… I have you !"……(to quote Jack Aub in M and C)

He he he

1/72 all the way

In the link to the Strelets site I like the guy leaning on his musket. He would make a great figure in 28mm.

I just don't understand why everyone makes 'British' in the 1812 shako… just not very useful…

Waterloo

And HaT made theirs in stovepipe – with optional heads for light infantry and Belgic

Exactly – just the one battle and people have been making Waterloo British in this scale for more than forty years – I will never need another one… The HaT option would have been better.

Actually 2 battles GT, Quatre Bras and Waterloo. There was also a few skirmishes during the advance on Paris, when the Prussians let the British have some fun. 😃

I would love these figures in 28mm, in metal. Why do 28mm manufacturers make so many stumpy, well fed figures in enormously wide trousers? Bicorne have made realistically proportioned 28mm figures in metal, so it is possible. If I didn't have so much time and money invested in 28mm I would be buying these. They look great.

Nail. On. The. Head there

One of the key reasons I went to 1/72 a long time back now and I have never regretted that decision. 28mm are just "wrong" shape wise. Lovely figures to paint with voluminous detail, but they are beard-less dwarfs proportionally.

Bonjour,

Agree that some metal 28mm are stocky and dwarf-like.

Some are even worse but the best are sublime e.g. Calpe, Perry and Black Hussar.

That's why I'm sticking to metals except where there's no alternative.

As to Belgian Shakos the British army did introduce them before Waterloo "The "Belgic" shako was a black felt shako with a raised front introduced in the Portuguese Marines in 1797 and then in the Portuguese Army in 1806, as the barretina. It was later adopted by the British Army, officially replacing the stovepipe shako in 1812, but was not introduced completely until 1815. The Belgic shako was decorated with silver or gold lace for officers, according to regimental practice.[4][5] from en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shako so a bit more useful for late battles in Spain and Southern France.

Cheers,

Paul

I will have poses like these in 28mm in my range before the end of the year.

look at AB 18 mm – my vote for the best available British Infantry standing at ease in the Peninsular

Three Armies – great news.

Sorry Paul, but I am not convinced by Perry/Calle. Lovely figures, well detailed and researched. But I don't think they could ever pass for human. Imagine one of their figures enlarged to the height of a human – their stickiness would make them stand out.

The test I use is – could I see a picture of them and believe the. To be real people – is a period picture. And sadly most 28mm ranges don't achieve that for me. Your mileage may vary, of course. But when I see Perry figures (say in Black Powder as eye candy) I am not fooled into believing them to be "real"

Marc