New French Available Now

The new French infantry while labelled by me previously as"With Turnbacks" is only true of the rank and file, but not the officers, as it would appear they wore what they liked to a certain extent.

With that in mind, the new figures show the Fusilier, the Drummer and the N.C.O. with turnbacks, while the Officer, Ensign and new Colonel do not. They are still new figures and different from the existing French in the range, so you now have a choice of using the new Officer, Ensign and Colonel with your existing French, or the new ones. Of course this applies to the original Officer, Ensign and Colonel too. Variety is the spice of life they tell me. :-)

Anyway, they are here now and I have inked samples straight from the mould, with no cleaning up whatsoever (as I do with all the figures in the range) for you to have a look at. I hope you like them. Click on pics for a larger view. Up next will be the new Prussians, when I have some more money to get them into production moulds.






Happy gaming,

Frank

French with Turnbacks

These arrived in the post yesterday from Richard, along with the Prussians and have gone off to Griffin Moulds today for master moulding.

As you can see they are wearing the newer uniform than my original French infantry and have turnbacks on the coats. We have gone for a different drummer pose, a different officer pose and a new mounted Colonel to accompany the original one.

As this was such a regimented period, we haven't been able to deviate with the standard marching pose for the Fusilier, N.C.O. etc, as if they deviated from the norm they would have been flogged half to death.

Some people criticise the posing of my range, but I think they cannot understand that this was the most drilled period in military history and troops did not march with hats cocked to one side, or wave them in the air as they marched. This was the period where soldiers were virtual automatons and every step was choreographed by vicious drill masters.

Anyway, enough of that, I hope you like what we (well Richard) have done with them.

Click on pics for a bigger view.