More French Line Infantry

 This latest unit brings me up to six battalions.

French Line Infantry

French line infantry painted as line voltigeurs, with officer and standard bearer from the French line infantry command group:

French Infantry

I painted these some time ago, but I thought I would post some pictures on this site:

French Line Infantry - Full Set

Just for the record and before they are painted, here is a picture of the complete French line infantry set made by Ros. This includes the line grenadier, line fusilier and command set:

French Line Infantry Drummers

After months of nothing these two French line infantry drummers popped up. I am guessing they are part of French infantry command set, which would consist of a group of five - two officers, two drummers and a standard bearer. They came along with a handful of French line grenadiers:

Line Voltigeurs

These figures are just the Grenadiers painted up as troops from the
voltigeur company, or light company of a French infantry battalion. Apart from the colours of plumes, and other uniform trimmings the cut of the uniform was virtually identical.

French Line Infantry

I guess this figure was one, if not the first, figure in the Ros 25mm range. In my opinion it is horrible, and indeed, on another forum it was described as the worst wargame figure. The problem is that the head is too big and the shako is the wrong shape. Anyway, like any good wargames army of the Napoleonic period I have loads of them. The uniform appears to be from the mid Napoleonic period, with above the knee high gaiters and shako cords. I have examples painted as line fusiliers and some as line light infantry chasseurs: