From PaulSS: French Officers for the Hundred Days campaign (20pts)

I've really been looking forwards to this years challenge and have spent the past few days in preparation, even clearing off the painting table for the first time in several years.

My first entry for Challenge XI is a small group of Napoleonic Frenchmen for the ongoing Hundred Days project that's been my main painting focus this year.

All three figures done today are from Perry Miniatures, the two on foot from the Line Infantry Officers advancing set and the one on horseback from the Mounted ADC’s pack.

The two chaps on foot are really well executed and have bags of character, I'll be using them as commanders in my skirmish games or as disorder markers in the big-battle games I have planned.

The mounted chap is rather a horrendous miscast, the mold has slipped quite badly and his face is rather ill formed, but he'll merge in with the rest of the figures in the collection on the tabletop. 

I was so excited for this years challenge I booked today off work to make an impact on the planned entries. My painting style does not really work for a one day turn-around cycle, so only the three above were completed. But, I made great progress on other stuff, blocking in the basecoats on ten horses for a unit of Anglo-allied light dragoons, base-coating and washing a French command stand, plus quite a few other figures with a start made on them.

I think that one mounted and two foot 28mm figures should net me 20 points kickstarting my tally for both the challenge and the 28mm Napoleonics duel.

Really looking forwards to seeing everybody's entries over the next three months.