Next project is prepped and ready for painting in the background, a unit of Hinton Hunt French Line infantry in greatcoats. I hope to get these completed in less than a week as there is much less detailed painting needed than the full dress uniform.
Edit: Adding comparison pic for Anonymous
This is the command group from the front. I have another drummer and officer from the same lot I bought on eBay, pictured right. As you can see I didn't need to add shims under the figures to bring them up to HH height, so maybe they aren't Newline? I bought them as a quite cheap lot because they had a good few officers and musicians which seem to fit well size wise with HH, but manufacturer wasn't specified. Maybe Art Miniaturen?
Very nice. Did you build up the base of the Newline figures to bring them in line with the Alberken? It would be very helpful if you could add a front picture or some measurements (sole of foot to eye level).
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DeleteBrilliant, the HH community has OD'd recently on Garde so a unit of Ligne followed by another in greatcoats - must be my birthday! They are really nice too, I think the Newline fit in rather well, the Minifigs perhaps less so but more owing to the pose difference - I think I would've given them a quarter turn to their left when basing to better match the fusiliers?
ReplyDeleteRob, I totally get why gamers back in the day OD'd on Guard units, they are a lot fancier than Line units. I'm trying to limit myself to 10-20% Guard in my OOB, even that is a bit OTT, but what the hey?
DeleteThanks Rob, I did consider a quarter turn but the minifigs bases are quite large square affairs so I would have had to snip the corners off to fit on the M&M size multiple bases, so I wimped out.
ReplyDeleteThey do not look like Newline figures which are much smaller. Perhaps they are SHQ/Kennington.
ReplyDeleteI do like the early Minfigs figures. In fact the elite figures were amongst the first metal figures I bought.
Hi Mark, could be SHQ, I defer to your superior knowledge, I've never seen any of these, but have quite a few very similar figures from a very cheap mixed lot I got on eBay, including infantry in forage caps, casualties, pioneers etc. Was planning to use them to fill in gaps in my units.
DeleteThey look great, Dave. I'm a big fan of the "high port" Alberken fusilier, but have yet to amass a battalion's worth. Those HH greatcoated infantry are a fantastic find. Well done!
ReplyDeleteMatt, I've emailed you with details of my spare Alberken fusiliers and HH greatcoated infantry (which I suspect are recasts, but good ones)
ReplyDeleteThey are definitely SHQ/Kennington figures. same sculptor hence the similarities.
ReplyDeleteThanks Matt, appreciate your input. I have a few dozen from the same ebay purchase, including pioneers, casualties, bare-headed, etc. Do you know if SHQ / Kennington ever did these?
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