The Analogue Hobbies Painting Challenge

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Monday, 18 March 2019

From PeteF: Last Post - Old School French Line Infantry 25mm Minifigs (120 points)

More French line infantry - Le 1ere Battalion 100eme Ligne - this time the centre companies have shako covers. These could be whitish, grey, brown or black - I decided these guys got issued white summer shako covers - left over from the campaign in Spain?

Painting Minifigs is always enjoyable - which is lucky as I keep finding ways to add to the Minifigs lead pile. Including the Swiss I'm up to 14 game ready line battalions - so about 110 to go for the whole French 100 days army! Since they all kind of look alike and were not all at the same battle I'll stop somewhere short of that. Probably.

Force of habit results in 24 man battalions - 6 companies of 4 figures each. The Voltigeurs get separate bases in case a rules set (like Over The Hills) calls for skirmishers out front. All the bases are magnetized so they can be attached to metal movement trays or bases. I'm thinking about doing Blucher and/or ESR with 60x40 bases - although I'm not sure if 8 figures representing a brigade will work visually.

I was lucky enough to come across a job lot of minifigs French last year and I'm gradually working through them. The sculpts on these were not at all crisp which made we wonder if they might be counterfeits... not sure if that was a thing in the 1980s. In any event with some filing and cutting they cleaned up OK.

This is my 16th and likely final entry into the 9th Painting Challenge (2nd one for me). Thank you Curt for organizing, to all the minions for helping and all the participants for encouragement as well as for sharing their most excellent work. It's been emotional.

24 x 25mm foot for 120 points.

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Wait, it's not Friday. The French have invaded the Free Fire round! Clearly, Friday was not enough for them; they insist on dominating the weekend.

Yup, classic Minifigs. Love them or hate them (and I do love Minifig artillery), they have an unmistakable look. Having had some horrible flash problems with Minifigs in the past, it's entirely possible they're real, just end of mold runs.

Anyway, well done. 120 points marching into Belgium.

~HerrRobert (the t is silent on all Frenchy postings)