French line troops (1 Viewer)

[fishead19690]

A few more and a couple of pics of the ruff stages.

 

[Fubar]

Great job Tim ! Line Fusiliers? Did HAT make those? Oh, I see, you used Wurttemburg/ Bavarians? Good idea!
I got 32 Heavy cav from Ken at ALL THE KINGS MEN. Dremeling off the TSSD saddlery . Quite a chore but they work together fine.
I sold off all my ACTA French line. I'll steal your idea for making them out of Hat figs. Waterloo/ June will be here before we know it.Sure doesnt look like it on your side of the Rocky's though!

FUbAr

 

[fishead19690]

Great job Tim ! Line Fusiliers? Did HAT make those? Oh, I see, you used Wurttemburg/ Bavarians? Good idea!
I got 32 Heavy cav from Ken at ALL THE KINGS MEN. Dremeling off the TSSD saddlery . Quite a chore but they work together fine.
I sold off all my ACTA French line. I'll steal your idea for making them out of Hat figs. Waterloo/ June will be here before we know it.Sure doesnt look like it on your side of the Rocky's though!

FUbAr

Thanks Scott! I used the Wurttemberg figures but the front chest detail is a bit different so I covered it over with 2 part putty and reworked it a bit. I also reworked the cuffs and cut off the swords and added a drinking gourd where the swords where.
I thought about trying to remove the second strap on the figures also but that would have been a lot of work on the amount of figures that I did. These are close enough for me. On the Hat greatcoat french figures I just cut off the the grenadier shoulder fringe and left the swords. The supply depot had extra stock that week and the first 100 fusiliers got swords that week!:rolleyes2::tongue:

I also did a couple of your french castings up as fusiliers also. I still had a few kicking around that I never finished painting, so I pulled them out and gave them the same treatment. They have the right coats already, I just had to remove the shoulder work. I used a hobby knife and the metal came off better then I thought it would. I wish I still had a few of the marching and advancing poses left and a few of the dead and wounded, I might have to send you an order soon but I have to lighten the load on my painting table a bit first. I still have 20 more of those Carabiniers to go and another 30+ of these french line not to mention the piles of other half painted figures!

I also used a couple of Airfix figures but I removed there heads and added new metal ATKM heads and I cut off the tiny muskets and replaced them with new ones cut from hat figures, I might have to dig up a few more of those out of my plastic figure tubs
Those 3 were kicking around in my conversion parts bin and I was to lazy to go searching for more.

 

[Ragnar]

Have to hand it to you Fish a lot of work has gone into all that!.....both the conversion work and the very detailed painting.
Be great if there was a good set of French Fusiliers on the market in 54mm and in plastic....I really think hat should have made these a few years back when they started there run of pumping out there Nap sets.......after all Fusiliers make up a huge chunk of French column's.
Im a bit rusty on 54mm Naps but have had the urge recently to paint a bunch up...Just something easy hat's Prussians and a few greatcoat French {middle guard}.

 

[fishead19690]

Have to hand it to you Fish a lot of work has gone into all that!.....both the conversion work and the very detailed painting.
Be great if there was a good set of French Fusiliers on the market in 54mm and in plastic....I really think hat should have made these a few years back when they started there run of pumping out there Nap sets.......after all Fusiliers make up a huge chunk of French column's.
Im a bit rusty on 54mm Naps but have had the urge recently to paint a bunch up...Just something easy hat's Prussians and a few greatcoat French {middle guard}.

Don,t forget to post some pics when you get them finished!^&cool

 

[fishead19690]

Still painting and converting! I finished up another batch of these guys, but I still have about another 40 or more still on the paint table.
I mixed in a few of Britains line fusiliers also this time.

 

[Ragnar]

Nice shots there Fish......^&cool

 

[fishead19690]

Never did post a pic of these guys painted up.

 

[jazzeum]

Good to see you posting again Fish.

Brad

 

[fishead19690]

Good to see you posting again Fish.

Brad

Thanks brad, been bored lately and started digging through some old stuff and got the toy soldier bug again. I even dug out a kilted vampire figure and a Brad figure in my digging!:tongue: What a flash back!:tongue: