French Line Infantry 1815

[PhilC]

I'm so sorry I didn't see this topic when you wrote it, I'm late!.I just wanted to say that the result is highly impressive, and I love your dark blue color for the french uniform... I would like to paint mine just like that! And yes, as many other contributors wrote above, I still have mine, bought at the end of the 70s, but not three thousands of 'em

[Minuteman]

Quite outstanding, I would never have imagined that Airfix Waterloo French infantry could look as good as this! I still have hundreds of them, but I think that they will never make it back to my painting table, having been superseded by other more recent sets. Nevertheless, I have many good memories of this iconic Airfix set, despite it's faults.

[Bill Slavin]

These are very beautifully and lovingly painted. It's great to see so much time lavished on such an old set.
I'm late to the reminiscences around this set, but for me as well, they were among the first Napoleonics I bought on a trip to England when I was 14. I chose to stay back from an excursion with the rest of my family one day in order to paint them and my elderly English cousin, not trusting a 14 year old alone in her house, locked me out. I broke in through a window and was happily painting when they returned!
I was just thinking about this set recently - I would agree with Aaron that the walking casualty figure is one of my all time favourite figures, and still graces my gaming table. But when you look at these, you realize that far from being ugly, they have a very stocky, large-headed natural realism to them that shares an aesthetic with legions of lead figures in 28 mm that have been made since. I wonder if this was the first Perry's brothers set as well?