Now for some more Napoleonic French pics.
1/32 scale is one of the big reasons why we have these new French sets. We don't have any such French infantry and I hope collectors will still buy them despite having ACTA, Italeri and the old Airfix French on the market (are there any more?).
These ones will come with a variety of headgear, but I'm not sure how many can be fit on a sprue. There is a limit to the size of the sprue, otherwise we wouldn't be able to fit it into the box, and though people always ask for bonnets de police, I'm not sure how useful those will be.
Here are some more extra heads:
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Thank you for the update on this much anticipated set. The photos are a bit dark and some of the hats blend into the background.
The Airfix French line infantry are not on the market at the moment. They were Bardin types anyway. So are the ACTA infantry. AIP's set is exclusively skirmishing elites. They did not include any advancing or marching poses nor any Fusiliers. The Italeri is a very strange set which includes some poses that are not very useful and others not in the same scale as the rest of the set. They also do not have the multi-hat options of the comprehensive set that you are planning. I would not loose sleep worrying about any of the sets you mentioned.
Many of the Tarleton's will probably find their way into the AWI. Tthe officer's hats should be considered for the command set. The "diamond pattern" shako would be more useful than the bonnets. More than a couple bonnets would be overdoing it.
Yes this is great.
The only risk here is too much choice.
Is it proposed to make the figures with heads for them to be then chopped off and changed or would we have headless torsos with a choice of heads?
Excellent news thanks.
Neil A
Great looking figures. I know that Victrix is planning a hard plastic 54mm French set sometime this fall, but the range that you are showing just looks great. Put me down for about 20 boxes of line and about 10 of command. To cover the French rev/pre shako range is wonderful, as are the pre 1812 figures. The post 1812 figures have been done, but I will buy them as well.
I would like a few bonnets de police head for making head swaps, as well as a pokalem cap, but I agree that you will not ned to many of them, unless you are fielding a unit of Marie-Louises. And for those you will need French line in overcoats with the bayonet on the right side, more than guys in regulation uniforms
Great things to look forward to
Adrian
@Rahway, these are the only pics I have now. The pics show the figure at the end shorter, but it's the angle and the height of the bases - they are all the same height. To all, thanks for the kind comments!
Nice figures:
http://img192.imageshack.us/img192/9149/march21.jpg
Is there any chance that any casualties figures will be done by HAT?
@Anonymous, casualty figures cannot be ruled out. All Anonymous posters, please sign a name, even a screen name will do to distinguish yourselves from other posters.
excellent figures ... better than any other makes by a long shot... 1/32nd exciting times at hat
9th
Yes, these will sell well (especially if you link them to some cavalry - hmmm, how about early Carabiniers :-) ). More in gaiters would be useful. The BdeP would be useful, whereas the pokalem (sp?) is for Bardin uniform I thought. Shako with cords for fusileers would be great. I agree with some heads being better placed with a command set.
Will you do this as separate boxes - line and elite and command? Or a big box (how big would a 1/32 scale big box be :-) )?
I also hope, from the way your post started, that these will also migrate to 28mm and 1/72. A decent set of early French is long overdue for the Empire period. I know you have the 1808-12 set, but the trousers with turnbacks and sculpting style make those a "specialist choice". These are looking a lot better.
@Marc, this set will be a box of marching figures only, plus a set of command. There will be another set of marching Waterloo French figures in the Bardin uniforms and a set of command in Bardin uniforms. The above is for 1/32. Other scales will be address on the forum.
Thank you Nuno. Much better.
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I will take 10 sets with the diamond plate shako.
For what its worth im only interested in 1812-1815,
But hat is killing me with all these new French sets with no British to stop them i think the french will just march all the way to Brussels.
Well, since it was the Prussians who won at Waterloo, it makes sense that these figures have come out first ;)
Seriously though, British line defending and a British command set will sell well, as no one to date has done full British command set - be they in the Belgic shako or in the stove-pipe. We will also need flank companies, center companies, and of course Highlanders and rifles.
But with HAT already making Russians and Prussians, and soon to be followed up by Austrians, I would really like to see these French line on the shelf to go with the light troops
@All, so there are absolutely no British troops that you guys can use right now?
hatblogger....Airfix with a silly leap frog pose & and rather small in size.
ACTA Foot gaurds are ok but only 4 poses and only 2 are realy anygood {and both of them are doing the same thing}but atleast these are the same size as hat.
what we dont have is the correct poses for building a square.
and a command set with 2 flagberer's PLEASE,
Hi - even though there are other makes past and present they all have defects (too small, wrong equipment, too chunky and so on etc...) I think that we all realise that there is indeed a big gap in the market for proper correct plastic 1/32nd Napoleonics at a fair price. hat have taken up this niche and nobody will challenge them with the same type of quality figures. I have been trying to paint the basic hat sets from the French Light Infantry and I realised that they can all have their heads swapped to create more variety so this is my next task.
Regards
9th
Do like the additional possibilities of the bonnet and bicorne.
Dirk
merci hat to the new figures for French in running order. possible to have the English in order to walk a day. figurine almost no English in running order
vive l'empereur..
The Airfix British Infantry, while among the best sculpted of the lot, are still with their "wing tips" light troops or Guards. What we need are some good line troops in both stovepipe and Belgian shakos to fill that gap.
Also, the Airfix French Line are out of production and from talking with the folks who have been producing them (CTS) have learned they have no plans to run them in the near future so...
There is a need for a set of British line infantry with command, especially the center companies. Ideally they would have both heads and both packs to cover the entire war. And the officer would have a bicorne and a long-tailed coat.
According to the online retailers the ACTA Waterloo Guards and Light Infantry are going away soon. The Timpo Waterloo line infantry and Highlanders may also be out of production. The Barzso Battle of New Orleans set of 7 poses, including two casualties, is also often unavailable.
Airfix has Waterloo flank companies and Highlanders. AIP and Italeri both make British Rifles. Victrix makes an expensive kit of 16 Peninsular flank company figures in 8 poses.
They look great. Will buy them by the BDE. Think Chausseurs a cheval and lancers will be required to screen the column.... Really like the diversity you've built into the project. Shows HaT is thinking its way to a world class product.
Scott
I'll be buying the French line (no otheres easily available) but would love to see action pose set too in good time. Victrix British set missed a trick by making there figs really chunky 60mm figs so not a great match with Hat and Italeri etc - (how stupid was that?!)
Alex
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