Thanks very much for your support and pre-orders, we were bowled over!
Here's some more pics and a few answers to your questions. We've tried to get in closer to parts of the sprues - hopefully, the detail will come out in the pictures. These were the first shots out of the press, and as such you normally expect sticking problems, but these were just fine.
Here's a picture of the base sprue which comes with the box. We will be selling these separately soon, and in four colours: green, brown, sand and gray. They will also be available off the sprue and packed individually in their particular sizes.
There will be three new metal codes for the French when the plastics come out, which include Imperial Guard commanders, and a Line Infantry Regimental command in greatcoats. We do, as Pictors Studio said, make Regimental and Battalion commands for the French Infantry already (as well as NCO's), in case you're gaming at a different ratio.
You can easily convert the spherical pom-pons to the disc type by just squeezing them gently between flat-nosed pliers... it works, I tried it!