The latest batch on the work / painting table is a unit's worth of 20mm Hinton Hunt (HH, but most are probably copies) Napoleonic French infantry in greatcoats, all recently emerged from the bleach bath to remove their old paint jobs.
There's enough here for a 24-man unit (battalion) and a 6-figure skirmish unit, and rising above it all (on a cocktail stick up his fundament) is an HH personality figure of Dorsenne.
There's a fair bit of figure bashing happening. The advancing figures used for the battalion (FN12) are all grenadiers. This means all the figures in the fusilier companies need their epaulettes, sabre-briquets, and the shoulder-belt it is suspended from, removed. All the figures are also getting their shakos changed to covered shakos courtesy of some thick coats of white paint.
The biggest job was to create an officer standard bearer from a firing figure, the arms requiring a lot of repositioning. There's still more work to do on these can be seen below, but this is a WiP.
This figure still needs the shoulder belt for the 'holster' for the flag pole, an eagle for the standard (to be taken from another figure) and a head swap for one more appropriate for an officer.
The drummer's greatcoat will also get more folds sculpted into it to look more like the HH figures in the rest of the unit.
Then it will be on to painting them, I want to paint the skirmish unit to look like this, for me iconic, illustration ...
For the larger unit (battalion) I shall base them on this illustration except with a grey shako cover to tie them in with the skirmish unit.
That’s a great idea putting the HH head on a Newline drummer. I’m looking forward to seeing how this unit progresses!
ReplyDeleteThanks, using my trusty Dremel to make the Newline more slimline has also made him a better match for the 'HH' figs.
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