From the 1st Infantry Division - the 1st battalion of 54th Ligne and 1st battalion of 55th Ligne
From the 2nd Infantry Division - the 1st battalion of 13th Legere
The 13th Legere - The middle ranker on the right-hand column has on a Ligne cap (lining in red rather than white) and the drummers pom-pom needs to be painted light blue. Two more chores to add to the growing 'to fix' list!
The Legere is much easier to paint, by using the French Blue acrylic spray paint from Humbrol I cut down on the prep time too.
The 55th Ligne - The only regiment with a flag, to date. This came with the Perry box
and it looks a lot better than I thought (due to my usual cack-handedness, not the flag quality!). I followed some advice on TMP and added a layer of kitchen foil between the two sides of the paper. This lets the flag be folded into a 'wind-blown' shape once it has dried around the pole.
The 54th Ligne - Again, another Perry plastic boxed regiment. This photo shows two grenadier companies because the 54th command stand is still being based.
The massed effect takes me back to my youth, moving down to eye-level in order to make the soldiers look bigger! I read a quote a while ago from an executive at Games Workshop who was commenting on the company results 'Some men are hard-wired to like toy soldiers' - very true!
And side-on....
And from the other side....
I have a fourth box of Perry plastics to finish and a further 4 boxes of Victrix French. With the 60 figures in the 1807-1812 boxes I reckon I can make 6 regiments of 36 troops with enough left over for some skirmishers. This may mean some conversion work on the officers/eagle bearers/drummers.
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