These are very nice figures and far outstrip any other 1/72 scale plastics I've seen (mainly on Plastic Soldier Review, rather than in the flesh). Being later period figures they are wearing trousers over their breeches which makes a change from the old Airfix figures I have painted previously (see here and here).
There are voltigeurs and grenadiers in the mix but for my units I just painted them all as fusileers (although I left the red strips on the grenadiers' shakos - I may paint over them later). I quite like the figure reaching back into his cartridge box, although from some angles he looks like he's massaging his lumbago.
Having bought two packets of these I can make six 16 figure units (based on 60mm x 20mm bases as per WRG 1685-1845) and because there are three officers, drummers and standard bearers per pack that means I don't have to scrabble around in my spares box looking for figures to convert for the command elements.
For information, my painting style for this scale (and 15mm) is to undercoat in black and then paint a shade coat (light grey for white areas) and then overpaint the main colour, letting some of the shade layer show through. I'm not patient enough to do that whole three layer system thing required for larger figures.
For the faces I paint them a sort of rust colour and then dab four points of flesh on the chin, nose and cheeks, which does the trick. Finally, I base them using coarse shelly sand stuck on with PVA glue, giving it a wash of dark earth, followed by a dry brush with a sand colour and then with some Javis flock added leaving plenty of earth showing through.
2 comments:
You can't beat late-period French in my view. Very nice figures and basing. How do you basecoat these plastic figures first? DO you seal them when the painting proper is completed?
Best Regards,
Stokes
Hi Heinz-Ulrich, I just wash them thoroughly in detergent and then undercoat in Revell black acrylic. The plastic is quite stiff (certainly far less flexible than Airfix figures), though not hard. I should probably seal them afterwards but they likely won't get a huge amount of wear so if any paint came off I would just touch them up again.
cheers WW
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