Unusually for a professional painter I had never painted any Napoleonic figures until recently. Naps are one of the most popular periods, and indeed one of the most colourful. A painter's dream (or nightmare). I was asked to paint a selection of Spanish, Prussian, and unsurprisingly, French figures from AB and Fantassin, '18mm' in size, which it seems are 15mm figures who ate their crusts. If they grow enough a whole new scale is born.
It was a pretty tough job, these are finely detailed figures, with plenty to work on, but they reward careful painting. Don't think I'd like to be painting them every day, but the provided a break from the steady stream of WW2 stuff I've been doing. Now I need to get back to WW2 to give me a break from shako plumes and cuff linings.
French are the fanciest of the group, the customer wants to decide which figures go into which centre companies so their pompoms have been left black. The flank companies, the voltigeurs and grenadiers have all their finery on. I believe these figs were made by Eureka who produce AB now, intended to be French for the 1815 campaign.
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