1897 The first of the invaders

First unit of French infantry finished. Figures used are Irregular 42mm from the Franco-Prussian War Range

Very much toy soldier for lots of reasons. For a start, what colour blue? Every picture looks different. Finally settled on Vallejo Model Colour dark blue - 70.930.

Next, unit size. On Regimental organisation, 151st Line Infantry Regiment in 1914 site suggests each Brigade included 2 Regiments. The Renegade Miniatures site and French Regiments of Infantry amplified this by saying each Regiment had 3 Battalions. So, even though 1914, quite happy to go with this.  How many companies is another issue. Renegade Miniatures suggest 5 companies - 'and whilst a battalion officially consisted of 1,000 men (approx. 200 men making a company),' - but 151st suggests 4 companies of 250 men.

So, on balance it seems reasonable to stick with 4 men per Battalion, therefore 12 men per Regiment - except the figures I got from Irregular are in 8s... so I'm going to have them leave one Battalion per Regiment at home!

One thing I'm not sure about is the flag - do I leave them plain or try for some fancy gold letters? Thinking about that one! 

A Liche Lord and 2 ladies

These ones look a lot better 'in the flesh' than they do in photos.

The RAFM Liche Lord in his tomb entrance seems to have been made from the same dolly as the Egyptian Queen figure. It seemed reasonable to group them together, and they really do look nice on the table.

 The Liche Lord with a couple of winged friends. 

These are two of the 'Egyptian' ladies - one painted 25 years ago, one a couple of weeks ago.  

These figures are some of my favourite RAFM figures - but a picture over twice the size of the  original figure does show up painting defects!