I am much happier with having trimmed the length of the flagpole for this regiment as it doesn't look anywhere near as unwieldy. According to the Terence Wise Osprey the French staves were two metres in length whereas these would now be roughly around four metres (when compared to relative height of the flag-bearer), but I think it looks about right especially with regard to accommodating the GMB flag:
Even after having completed one hundred and twenty or so, the Foundry figures still seem on the smaller end of the 28mm continuum, which I suppose was always going to be the case after having completed two armies comprised mainly of Front Rank figures. The detail is most definitely there however to the extent that the relief on things such as cross-belts in the picture below are actually more a result of the sculpting and shadows under light than my actual painting efforts:
I am also putting a white disk on the pom-poms of fusiliers in the second battalion. I have read conflicting reports as to the accuracy of this, but I think I'll stick with it for the period of (roughly) 1809-1812 I am currently aiming at:
That's three regiments comprised of six battalions done, which is not a bad start to the year. I think I'll probably do one more two-battalion regiment and switch to something else. I spent a fruitless hour last week looking for my Murawski Badeners, and am hoping I'll be able to find them soon.
Not a bad start? Excellent start you mean...They look superb!
ReplyDeleteThanks Phil, hopefully I will be able to keep the momentum going.
DeleteNice work as usual.
ReplyDeleteThanks Anthony. They are a nice change from the last year's worth of Portuguese.
DeleteHow do they match up hight wise?
DeleteThey only come up to the chin of the Front Rank figures, and are a "true" 25mm as Peter says below. I have some later Perry French and some Calpe to do at some stage, but will be keeping them in separate units and am hoping they won't look too out of place on the same table.
DeleteYep had that problem with my Casting Room Miniature cacadores vs Warlord line.
DeleteYes, I saw that over on LAF. As long as they're in the same unit though, I really can't see an issue.
DeleteMinifigs vs Front Rank on the same table however...
DeleteYou did a great job on these. The GMB flags are wonderful, but oversized, especially for these figures which are loser to 25 than 28mm. Personally, I'd make the poles even shorter, but whatever! These Foundry figures are what started replacing my venerable Scrubys with back in he 1990's, so they are especially near and dear to my heart! I wish the growth in the height etc of figures had stopped right here - Front Rank are more like 33 mm!
ReplyDeleteThey are nice figures, and are definitely closer to 25mm. That said, they tower over my Minifig Russians.
DeleteI bought a few Front Rank hornists ten or so years ago to round out my Minifig Russian Jager units and very quickly discovered what a serious error in judgement that was. I ended up having to purchase more Front Rank Jagers to round out the hornists, and then further rounded it out with around thirty battalions of musketeers, cavalry and artillery, none of which has seen any paint yet.
That is a cracking looking unit Lawrence.
ReplyDeleteCheers Mark, I'm getting there slowly. I must admit I find painting far more therapeutic than I used to back in the late 70's/early 80's.
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