My latest painting are these Perry plastics. I finding it amusing that in doing Napoleonics I choose the overcoat types over the regulation dress (the boys in the bright plumes and such). In fact all the Perry 'Bardin' poses are still on the sprues!
Contrary to the brightly attired attraction of the Napoleonics in full dress uniforms I seem to be drawn to the covered-in-mud campaigns of 1814 France and the Hundred Days - conducted in the rain for the most part.
Perhaps as we get older the attraction of fashionable but perhaps uncomfortable, or at least showy duds, leads to more practical clothing. Nothing more practical in the Napoleonic age than a greatcoat and waterproofed shako or forage cap. So much of my early units are thus...making the painting much easier by the way!
However one crack in this theory came as I had completed the painting and had terrained the units and viewing them on the table. "What a dull lot" I thought. Then I observed that I had forgotten to paint the pompoms on the shakos! Hmm, well the orange, purple and bright blues should add a bit, what.
Certainly did. With that splash of color I am back on the true Napoleonics train.....
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| Perry metal General with accompanying Victrix infantryman |