Spanish Napoleonics

Last of the Napoleonics for a while. These are mainly Fantassin with the odd AB figure thrown in. Probably the most interesting unit, with a nice amount of variation, but still looking reasonably like a cohesive battalion. There are a few head swaps done b the customer for even more variety. The Regiment is Principe as far as I recall.


The Fantassin figures fit well with the AB, but they can be picked out. The detail on their muskets is not very crisp, and that makes painting them a bit more difficult, not knowing what exactly is what, given that the detail has been fudged. I have some 20mm Fantassin Soviets on the table at the moment, and they appear to have the same problem. More on those in the next few days.

You'll have noticed that none of these figures are based. The customer wishes to base them, as most customers do in order to keep them consistent with their existing collections. In one way that's a bit of a relief as I really don't like basing, but at the same time it would be nice to see them completely finished. Nice basing can improve mediocre figures and bad basing can ruin the look of nicely painted figures. Without the miracle of basetex, my life would be much harder.


Overall these guys were probably my favourites, though the variety did prolong the process of painting. There are some nice characters in there, including a guy with a gituar on his back.