Finished! 10mm scale French Napoleonic Light Infantry Battalion

Huzzah!

I have finished my most recent project, which truth be told I was borderline tempted to give up, pack it up, and go paint some WWII Germans.

I'm happy I didn't.

The thing that I've noticed with napoleonics so far, is that there are a lot of colors. Unlike WWII where the palette is rather limited, the napoleonic stuff is so varied, that even the slightest hint of a color thats a little too light, it sticks out like a sore thumb and steals the light from the model. Furthermore, unlike the 28mm model I painted earlier, 10mm scale is really quite small. Obviously not as small as 6mm, granted, but in terms of details, its hard to really make each individual trooper look as good as how a 15mm or a 28mm does.

Suffice to say though, that Pendraken 10mm scale nappies are quite amazing. The amount of detail is quite surprising, and some things can be "faked" with some clever painting techniques, like the shako cordes for example, which are not quite modeled, but painted in a way to make them look like they do indeed exist.

I've decided to base them in the manner of the LaSalle ruleset, which means 4 stands per normal-size infantry battalion so that they can be made into squares or lines depending on your tactic.

Considering I've decided to use  some 20mm x 30mm bases, as opposed to the Warmaster-scale 20mm x 40mm because it allowed for the models to be more densely packed, and thus hoping to give it a more battalion formation look, it ended out working that I could fit them on my previous 6mm battalion square.

And thus, presto, a wild movement tray appears!

Sure, its not quite adapted for columns or squares or line formation, it's perfect for the "default" French attack-column formation.

These have been painted as Light Infantry using Pendraken's 1809 model set, but yes, the flag is a little more "1812" feel. But that's okay though.

I have 3 Line infantry battalions, 1 combined grenadier battalion, 2 hussards regiments and 1 dragoon regiment to paint in 10mm.... and so I think my next would be the hussar regiment. Can't wait to see what cavalry looks like when painted up in 10mm :D