"French battalion 1-to-1 scale 28mm" Topic

Here's my latest project to "commemorate" 29th March 2019, the day scheduled for Brexit.

Many more pics here link (warning: massive political diatribe!)

Good post, I entirely agree with you about the stupidity on Brexit. That's why I have lived in France for almost 20 years.

Very impressive!

To commemorate the intended brexit day you better have a battalion with a lot of casualties.

But i like your battlion!

Wow…impressive is an understatement.

Nice!

Living in the USA, why is Brexit a bad thing?

Nice. Thanks for posting.

Great pictures.

And as an enraged Brit, you speak for me entirely.

Living in the USA, why is Brexit a bad thing?

Considering what it's done to my UK investments and the value of the Pound Sterling, it's an economic disaster mate.

… and it hasn't even happened yet.

Irish Marine: Don't go there.

Returning to the "Miniatures" aspect of the post and blog, what a fantastic project. I found the description of the individual dragoons on your Waterloo Day post quite moving.

Irish Marine, Lord Hill's post covers the issue well.

What a glorious sight!
Let us fertilize the French soil with our enemies.

Really shows you what a field of soldiers looked like! Thanks for posting! As an American, I will make no comment on Brexit, but I do wish everyone well!

Thanks for your very kind comments, all. Quite cheered me up they have!

Great job on the figs and pics.

I enjoy Al Murray's humour, but I know what he's doing, and I suspect that some don't and that there's a touch of the Alf Garnett effect where some of his audience love it but don't get it, thinking that he's speaking for them instead of satirising them.

I'm Irish, and you know the UK is in a bad place when its politicians are making our gombeens look almost statesmanlike. ;-)

I'll have to wait to see Lord Hill's website to read his comments I can't open it at work. But his posted photos of his troops are fantastic.

Holdit – Lots of us in the UK have discovered an unsuspected love for the Irish recently, not least for your press commentators. Should remind many of ours what grownups look like.

And from now on, my remarks will be limited to those concerning toy soldiers.

Now that is an army!

Definitely raised a laugh. 29th March? Not now and, after today's vote in Parliament, who knows?

I value my Irish passport even after 65 years welcomed to the UK. My two lads now have the same in reserve! My worry is Black Hussar imports, Vallejo paints, all those marvellous 1/72 scale German figures…..the sky is falling in said Chicken Licken

And while I don't want to be even more alarmist, I thought you all should know my carton of milk goes bad today.
So it's misery and suffering everywhere.

Deadline now April 12 apparently, for now….

Great figs! No worry's about continuing to get Perry's for your next battalion!

Who knows? US trade deal and we get Brigade Games Miniatures figures past Customs!

The challenge for Perrys is the opposite. Every EU citizen might soon be paying a tax to import their figures.

My mother had a great Devotion to St Anthony of Padua. Couple of quid in his collection box. light a candle and miracles can still happen.

Nicely executed and very ambitious project.
(Agree 100% on the political stuff!)

Nice display.

Excellent job and interesting to see them arrayed like this!
The crashing pound has meant cheaper Napoleonics for me on the other side of the world, but yes I feel for you guys.

I do an online course on mathematics – what do I find in the discussion- a rant about Brexit
I sign onto a discussion group discussing religious movements of C17th century – what do I find in the discussion- a rant about Brexit
I watch a YouTube video on Opera -what do I find in the discussion- a rant about Brexit
I read a thread on French Napoleonic Infantry -what do I find in the discussion- a rant about Brexit
Can we please keep to the subject in hand

Thought this was a site about wargaming?

One, you do have to have a sense of humour if you are to join in. Lord Hill started all this by reminding us of the date.

Two, you wargamers at least have the excuse of dice throws. Our politicians do not even have that excuse for the current chaos.

Three, it does matter. I can live without Chianti, Chorizo, Moussaka, VW, Camembert, but I do want to be able to get Black Hussar's next release. That will be Grenadiers a Cheval de la Garde in the proper parade rig, on standing or, at most, marching horses….I believe…..someone must…one day.

Beautiful work. it may be every Napoleonic gamers dream to have the money and space to game at a 1:1 scale.

Two, you wargamers at least have the excuse of dice throws. Our politicians do not even have that excuse for the current chaos.

Sure they have an excuse, they were drunk or otherwise on drugs! Yes, since 2016. Continuously.

@Lord Hill: Words fail me for how impressive that is, so I'm going to have to deploy a meme:

Crikey..makes my 24-fig batallions lokk minute in comparison. Pics give a great idea of what a batallion really looks like – quite formidable. Well done!

I have just gone back to this site again as it is irresistible.

The rant I just loved and found myself saying "Yes, oh yes" over and over, but enough of that.

Yes the pictures are great at showing what a unit like this really looked like. Just imagine the whole of Marcognet's 3rd Division, as we are promised one day.

But my favourite, as always with Lord Hill, is the pre-painted figures showing how conversions were achieved. We can all alter the carry of a musket say, but these are inspired work.

I appreciate we wargamers live in a fantasy world but in what universe do Chianti, Chorizo, Moussaka, VW and Camembert cease to be available?

Brownand wrote:

"To commemorate the intended brexit day you better have a battalion with a lot of casualties."

Yes, a British Battalion, fighting itself, with lots of casualties all round and the French, Confederation of the Rhine et al looking on slightly bemused by the scene.

Nice Figures, I did a battalion in 1:3 once and thought that was insane enough, but this is a whole new level. I like it.

However, no need for the Brexit hysteria, there's plenty of other places online for that kind of thing.

Regards

J

r.e. conversions – Thanks Deadhead! Making them is my favourite part of the process, I spend far too much time chopping and glueing (when I should be painting!)

Loved your post and how it flowed into your decision to do the French unit (which looks superb). I am very saddened by Brexit.

LH…Stick to the chopping and glueing.

Anyone can have a bash at painting superbly cast figures.

The real skill is to get out the Greenstuff, the spare parts box, the metals and plastics combined, to produce summat no-one else has ever seen…let alone possess.

Fully understand the needs of those who throw dice, but some of us are button counters. I think your work is inspiring….well it is for me anyway

LH…Stick to the chopping and glueing.

Anyone can have bash at superbly cast figures.

The real skill is to get out the Greenstuff, the spare parts box, the metals and plastics combined, to produce summat no-one else has ever seen…let alone possess.

Fully understand the needs of those who throw dice, but some of us are button counters.

Is the distance between files correct?

Impressive!!!