Napoleonics (3) - French Voltigeurs and Officer

 I have been doing very cursory research as I paint for this project. I believe these are essentially just Line Infantry that are capable of taking on the Skirmisher role. I decided after seeing some other photos that I would give them blue pants in order to make them more easily identifiable on the table. Colors are the same palette as the Line. I got 6 done so far and need 18 total for the project. I've got 12 more printed and ready to paint. The sculpts are from Piano Wargames

The Officer is just a plastic figure from the Victrix Sprue but it definitely gets the job done.

One thing that I think is pretty neat about the Piano sculpts is the backpacks. Theres all sorts of character. In particular I really like these two

I'm nearing the halfway point of this project. As of this post the rest of the French are at the bare minimum built and primed. I've been really debating between taking a break before the British and powering through. There's 2 other projects looming in on my workbench and I'm not sure if I want to divert yet. 

Napoleonics (2) - French Line Infantry

 As promised the next unit up is the French Line Infantry. 

These are some plastic figures from Victrix. The molds are.. rough.. to say the least. I've long not been bothered by mold lines as the extra work to trim them is usually not worth the hassle for your rank and file in my opinion, that said these have some very very noticeable mold lines. The scenario I'm running calls for a unit of 10 line so that's what we've started with.

I did make the point in the last post that I'm not super fussed with "historical accuracy" but I did find myself a bit down the rabbit hole looking up things like cuff colors. I didn't find anything that would make these paint jobs "wrong" but also I don't know if they're perfect and that's fine to me. 

As before these are all "Marine Juice" paint jobs. Colors as follows;

Dark Prussian Blue, Beige Brown, Chocolate Brown, Pz Aces Flesh, AK Grey Brown, AK Tenebrous Grey, AK Blood Red, AK Vampiric Flesh, offwhite, AK Leather brown, AK Gunmetal, AK Rusty Brass, AK Dirty Yellow, Ak Deep Green

I used the same "scene" from the last post.