Moving right along on me backlog of “almost done” armies, my next group to bring to completion was the French army (how can you play Napoleonics without french!).
The figures are all Old Glory 15mm. The painting is from a variety of sources that I purchased over the last few years. All the Old Guard are painted by Fernando, the Young Guard is from Gajo and the regular troops are all from Old Guard painters. A virtual cornucopia of companies! The style varies somewhate, but the overall paint quality matches pretty well and they are all in their own units. With matching flags and basing, everything goes together very well (the key to any project is consistent basing).
Next step was to mount them all on bases. For this period, I use pre-cut steel bases. All are using standard sized old school Koenigkrieg basing. I spray these green and glue the figures on using white blue.
The next step was to add flags. In this case, I decided to order the Vaubanner flags and attache them using white glue. I’m a fan of the flags and it saved by some time in downloading and sizing.
Once the glue had dried, I went back with green paint (Howard Hughes Geo Hex Green) and painted the bases and flocked them with Woodland Scenics blended turf.
The last step is to dull coat the figures with Testors Dull Coat. This puts a final seal on the figures. Hardens the flags that much more and better seals the flock. I will sometimes go back and gloss coat the bayonets, but it did not seem necessary in this case. Everything dried and my troops are ready for the table!
- Manteuffel