French Poilus

Hello,

today, for a change, I'm showing you something I painted myself. These figures are part of an experiment I undertook last August or September. I wanted to try painting only the base colors on some figures and representing all the shadows and details, etc., with blck ink hatching. A bit like in comic books.

I used scans of Pellerin French figures as references, as well as a photo of a soldier firing a gun. I scaled the figures to 8 cm.

After painting a few, I used the design of a medal commemorating the return of Alsace-Lorraine as my reference too.

Since I think this technique works quite well with the WWI figures, I wanted to try it out on Napoleonic uniforms, so I started to make a few Bavarians.

I think it could work with figures in "action" poses. However, I don't like it as much on these classic figures standing at attention.

These experiments are currently complete for me, but I can easily imagine creating some opponents for these Poilus at some point.

Best regards,

Andreas