Flossian Union Foot Battalions

The lesson of this post is that the most important thing about painting miniatures is not to stress oneself out over the matter. It is a leisure activity after all, and the great majority of us don't paint for a living. 

I found out that I still had more than five hundred(!) 1/72 eighteenth century figures from various produce, and since I sort of hit a painter's block with my TYW/ECW collection, these came in handy for a change. Some were painted and needed touching up only, some were primed and some just bare plastic. 

I did not really have a plan for them, until I made the mental connection with my Schultze-Böhnstadt Imagi-Nations setting, so here they are, three dozen figures in three battalions of the Flossian Union: a regular fusilier, a mercenary Glambrian and a local militia unit.

There's not much to tell about the painting: I went with my usual method of priming, blocking in the details, giving them a dark brown wash then picking out some highlighted areas. Things that look half done on a 28mm figure will just be good enough on a 1/72 one from three feet's distance. 

I based them for Maurice, the long time plan being two bases should constitute one unit, but until then, a 1:1 ratio applies. The bases are very resonabe 9x5,5cm sized ones, which seems odd until you realize I calculated for four files in three ranks, and each figure has about 4 square centimeters of generous footprint to allow different arrangement on the bases (which are themselves foamboard covered with sand and PVA). 

When I commenced my feeble exploits in wargaming a lot of time ago, my initial foot battalions were also 12-figure strong, which I think is a good number to represent depth and width while saving tabletop space, so this is sort of a reach back to those olden days.