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Roger Murrow's Foundry French Figures
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Guest contributor Roger Murrow was quite taken with our website, but noticed that we featured very few Foundry figures. So he sent us this article about his first year of collecting and painting a Napoleonic French army with Foundry figures - and they certainly look nice! Over to Roger to continue his story..... |
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The whole army started off as an accident really. I've played reasonable level rugby for 20+ years but my career is coming to an end and I wanted a hobby. When I was a kid I played with and painted Airfix soldiers and thought that would be fun as I loved the French Napoleonic army. I surfed the net and discovered a whole new world. I realised this could be the start of something big .. I had no idea how big!
So I have set out to build a French Napoleonic army in 28mm scale with figures from the Foundry. Why the Foundry? Two reasons: one as I think they are magnificent sculpts, and the second was that I acquired, second hand, a job lot of hundreds of the damned things! And I means literally hundreds! I was very lucky!
The aim is to build the following: two infantry divisions each comprising of two brigades each of four 36-figure regiments. There will be artillery and command as well. I also have acquired cavalry for a heavy division of cuirassiers, dragoons and carabineers. Light of hussars, lancers and chasseurs a cheval. And of course horse artillery!
And then we have the Imperial Guard. Two regiments of grenadiers and one young and one middle guard. Horse will be the Empress Dragoons, chasseurs, lancers and grenadiers ...
Besides the annoying bits most of this has been assembled via eBay or second hand although I have taken advantage of the recent Foundry sale to fill in gaps. I only started in January and add a regiment about every six weeks so its a long term project!
All figures are painted in Foundry acrylics to the Foundry / Dallimore system.
