Thursday, 25 September 2025

French Napoleonic Part 5..... 28th Line Infantry

I have started painting the line infantry. I was not that happy with the results for the light infantry so have used a lot more contrast paints when painting these an I am much happier with the final product. No blobby pink faces for starters. 😂 



In 3 ranks.
The faces look a lot better, as do the trousers. The jackets are painted with normal paints.
I am going to change the colour of the pompoms on the shakos to a different colour for each base as apparently each company had a different colour. One base will remain red as this was used by the grenadiers as will the command base.

In 2 ranks

In column 

As the British hope to see them, running away. 
The curled blanket(?) and back pack were also done in contrast paints giving a better result.


Figures 10mm from Pendraken as is the flag.

Painting Progress

 30 of        300 Line Infantry        10 units of 30        Completed 10%

33 of        55 Skirmishers              5 units of 11        Completed 60%  wow!

30 of      60 Cavalry                    4 units of 15        Completed 50%   getting there

9/36 of   9 Guns with 36 crew.                                Completed 100%    YAY

3 of        5 Command stands.                                    Completed 60%

14 comments:

  1. You’re making good progress! The curled blanket is actually the greatcoat. Plumes on regimental command was typically white.

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    1. Thanks Jonathan. I will change the command bases to white, thanks for the info.

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  2. Nicely done and I think your observation about the problem of pink blob faces is spot on. In places, such as when skin is too pinky, I have started using slightly thinned contrast paint as a wash.

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    1. Thanks Norm. I will try repainting the pink faces with some contrast paint. Thanks for the tip.

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  3. Well they look splendid matey. They soon start to turn into sizeable units at that scale, which makes you feel like you’re making progress. Many more to go?

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  4. Nice work Ben, looks like you are getting the hang of the contrast painting! From memory the four centre compay pompoms are green, orange, blue and lilac....but it's 20+ years since I painted Napoleonic French!

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    1. Thanks Keith. Why do we have the internet when you are available 😁 The internet agrees with you.

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  5. Good looking troops. Forward or backwards.

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  6. You’re really cranking through this project well. Nice job. 😀

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    1. Thanks Stew. Much easier to keep going when you like the results.

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