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    December 2002
  • From: Massachusetts
Compagnie franche de la marine
Posted by ajlafleche on Monday, July 31, 2006 7:58 PM

La Meridiana’s rather large “54mm” Compagnie franche de la marine figure from the French and India War period. These were independent companies whose officers were from New France and whose enlisted men were recruited in France in the hopes they would settle after their periods of service were completed. They were part of the Navy department but not Marines as we use the term today. These companies fought from the Detroit area down to Indiana. The official uniform was typical of the French for the time, long coats, leather shoes, waistcoats, tricorns. In the field, the more common uniform is as seen here, (and based on a Don Troianni painting in Soldiers in North America). Dark, not navy, blue coat and trousers, matching blue cocked hat, images vary including plain, or with yellow trim or trim with a Fleur de lys badge. The napsack was linen or leather, sometimes with the hair left on. Leggings, or Indian stockings, were the norm as were the more practical moccasins. The sword’s place in the frog was regularly replaced with a hatchet.

The figure is painted in Andrea and Vallejo acrylics with oils as washes. The tree stump is a Bayardi casting, the shorter grass is from 3 Guyz and the longer from a friend as are the shrubs. The boulders are pea stones stolen from the back yard path (Don’t tell SWMBO!) painted and shade to my liking.

 

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  • Member since
    April 2006
  • From: Maryville Tennessee
Posted by oleander13 on Monday, July 31, 2006 10:41 PM
Very nice figure.  One question though...what did you use for the leafs on the terrain. They look very realistic and convincing.  I like the grass as well.  Although your figure is great, I think I like looking at the terrain just as well.
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  • Member since
    December 2002
  • From: Massachusetts
Posted by ajlafleche on Tuesday, August 1, 2006 7:29 AM

Thanks for the kind words. The leaves are from Hudson and Allen, I think they are the forest litter pack. I got them 4 years ago at the nationals in Virginia Beach so I'm not quite sure what the package was labeled.

I, too, enjoy looking at the base for a figure. It says alot about the time and place of the figure. In the figure world, that's almost as important as the figure itself.

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