Another French infantry unit!

At long last I have completed my next unit of French heavy infantry. Like the previous one I finished over a year ago, it consists of 30 men with polearms, including both fully armoured men-at-arms and more lightly armoured troops. It could perhaps represent men-at-arms of the ordonnance companies dismounting to lead 'lesser' troops such as francs-archers in an assault. But really it could be used to represent any sort of French infantry as required!

Now since that last unit I have had two sets of figures commissioned and sculpted for me by Yannis of Talos Miniatures. This is exactly what they were originally intended to be used for - advancing polearm troops in (mostly) livery jackets to fill the ranks of these large units, so I don't have to rely on using the same few metal Perry sculpts over and over again, and with the right combo of poses and clothing I wanted. Now many of these sculpts have actually found their way very happily into more 'stationary' posed units already, but this was the original goal. Here's some pics of all the Talos sculpts in this unit - the heads are mostly from Perry Miniatures (but not all of them), and the polearms and sidearms are from a variety of sources (many of the glaives sculpted for me by Yannis). I've managed to include duplicates of four of the rear-rankers, with different heads and weapons to avoid them appearing as clones.

Note that some of the most recent commissioned figures aren't here - they are on the painting table awaiting to be assigned to more upcoming units!

My absolute favourite is the chap with riding boots and blue sleeves - being so photogenic he had to go in the most prominent position at the corner of the unit! He's a really amazing sculpt.

Besides the Talos sculpts these are mostly Perry metals, including some conversions - there's actually only two Perry plastics in here.

And here they are side by side with the other unit, and facing off against some German pikemen.