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It shouldn’t come as any surprise that the next box would always be Austrians to fight the French. The first set is dedicated to the German regiments of the Austrian Army and will cover options for either Fusiliers or Grenadiers in the same box. You will be able to build them either as marching or attacking. The first of the ‘3ups’ is heading for tooling. Alan is also working on a metal range of Austrians and is adding to the French.

 

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Plastic Revolutionary French Infantry update

 The final frame (the command frame) has been finished and the 28mm plastic Revolutionary French Infantry can now go into production. They will go up for pre-order in the first week in August, when we’ll show more pictures of them in units etc, and will be released about a week later.

As you can see the command frame has seven torsos and ten pairs of legs including more gaitered legs, ‘gaitered trousers’ and short-gaitered legs. It also has NCO arms, various officer arms, two officers (one full figure, one torso). The NCO standard bearer can also be changed into an officer if needed.

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 Plastic French Revolutionary infantry update.

We have examples of the first two frames of the next plastic set in. The command frame is in tooling at the moment.

The main frame has the torso/heads, legs packs and headgear. The second frame is the arm frame. As you can see the heads are attached to the torsos as this allows queues and long hair to fall over the collars naturally without compromising the tooling.

One of the main things Alan wanted to achieve was a good variation in headgear and leg and footwear as shown in so many pictures of the 1790’s, which also corresponds with the regimental records. To do this the figures are split at the waist. Breeches, with and without gaiters, civilian overalls (ragged and semi-ragged), clogs, shoes in good and bad states of repair as well as bare feet are all covered. There will be additional gaitered legs on the command frame too, if you want a bit more formality to your unit.

On the main frame two torsos have the short tailless civilian carmagnole jacket, which can be painted in the national colours or as civilian clothing. Two other torsos have civilian long tailed coats.

No release date yet.

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 A new period in plastic coming up!

The next plastic set will be French Revolutionary Infantry!

All the frames for these are in tooling at Renedra at the moment, so this is just a sneak peek to show what is coming up this year. The three examples shown here are marching, but in the box as usual, there’ll be other arms for a more aggressive unit. The way Alan has made the torsos in this set is a little different from before. The torsos and legs are separate to include the large number of options of legwear from neat to ragged, civilian and military. The separate torsos also have the heads attached as this was necessary to allow the queues and longer hair styles to lay right over the collars. So, you’ll end up with a large amount of head/torso as well as leg variants. With the heads attached to the bodies, this also allowed a large variety of separate headgear to be included.

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 New French in Egypt and French Revolutionary Cavalry

We have three new codes of French Infantry in Egypt in their European uniforms worn in the first year of arriving there. These wore out and were not suitable for the conditions in Egypt to be replaced by new uniforms as shown in the original codes in this range.

We also have six more Chasseurs a Cheval codes for the Revolutionary range. These all come with metal horses for those who prefer metal.

French in Egypt

28mm metal figures designed by Alan Perry

FE 47 Line Infantry command advancing in European uniforms, 1798.

FE 48 Line Infantry Fusiliers, march attack in European uniforms, 1798.

FE 49 Line Infantry Grenadiers, march attack, bicornes 1798.

Revolutionary French

28mm metal figures designed by Alan Perry

REVF 28 Chasseur a Cheval command in 1791 helmets and Caracos.

REVF 29 Chasseur a Cheval in 1791 helmets and Caracos.

REVF 30 Chasseur a Cheval command in mirlitons and long tailed coats.

REVF 31 Chasseur a Cheval in mirlitons and long tailed coats.

REVF 32 Chasseur a Cheval command in mirlitons and dolmans, attacking.

REVF 33 Chasseur a Cheval in mirlitons and dolmans, attacking.

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New! Cavalry for the French Revolutionary Wars

The first cavalry to be released are Chasseurs a Cheval. These are represented in three different uniforms; the waistless dolman called a Caraco, the long-tailed coat and the normal dolman, the later appearing more commonly amongst Chasseurs in the late 1790’s.

This first batch are designed to use the Plastic French Light Cavalry horse frame B66 to allow you to build decent sized regiments at a reasonable cost. No horses, except the officers’ horses are included in the packs. The next batch of six Chasseurs a Cheval codes will come with metal horses.

Revolutionary French

28mm metal figures designed by Alan Perry

REVF 22 Chasseur a Cheval command in 1791 helmets and Caracos. 6 figures (use plastic French Light cavalry horses B66)

REVF 23 Chasseur a Cheval in 1791 helmets and Caracos. 6 figures (use plastic French Light cavalry horses B66)

REVF 24 Chasseur a Cheval command in mirlitons and long tailed coats. 6 figures (use plastic French Light cavalry horses B66)

REVF 25 Chasseur a Cheval in mirlitons and long tailed coats. 6 figures (use plastic French Light cavalry horses B66)

REVF 26 Chasseur a Cheval command in mirlitons and dolmans, attacking. 6 figures (use plastic French Light cavalry horses B66)

REVF 27 Chasseur a Cheval in mirlitons and dolmans, attacking. 6 figures. (use plastic French Light cavalry horses B66)

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