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Re: French Nap Artillery French foot guard artillery I crave the most

Definitely french artillery is not cowered well.if strelets will make less napoleonics in good quality I will save a lot of money and I will become rich:-) if strelets made napoleonic armies in excellent quality like set M-124 roman auxiliaries(excellent size 23;5mm) ranks I would buy alot now standing soldiers with different headgear in attention for ceremony like poses bad for me should be more splendid.the last french elites with missing epolets too bad too:-( I miss zvezda their quality was superb but they gave up on production of new 1/72 sets their cavalry russian&french cuirassiers are the best too bad Austrian cuirassiers weren’t made.napoleonic is still the most popular period... zvezda french artillery with muskets&packs on their backs bad research. And french foot guard artillery was done only once by esci with wrong headgear and 4 poses only.and good line&light@guard infantry advancing would be nice. Good poses like british infantry 1701-14 in good quality if you make napoleonics sets like that you will see how fast they will sell.for example like 3 years I couldn’t buy from hat industrie british napoleonic command french light infantry chasseurs marching,in action and command sets because of excellent quality they sold out quickly I had to wait until they were reissued. To bad they didn’t make advancing set it would sell just as quick....

Re: French Nap Artillery

Good Napoleonic sets will sell. I agree with previous postings. There are gaps in the sets on offer.
1812 Russian jaeger, which should really only be produced in fighting poses, wearing the greatcoat and with greatcoat strapped around the body would be magic, especially if the sculpting compares to the fighting poses of the latest colonial Brits.
I am looking forward to your announced 1812 Russian sets, but at the same time I am also hoping for musketeers(the bulk of the army and never properly depicted) iso only elites.
This applies to all the other main players as well. French fusiliers with only one belt holding cartridgecase and bayonet can be produced standing at order arms, shoulder arms, marching and fighting. They can wear their greatcoats or strap them to their pack.
Artillery sets, both horse and foot with six men handling the gun and a command group for the main players would raise interest as well.
If the research is good and the sculpting compares to some of your latest sets, you will have a following.

Re: French Nap Artillery

Hi Mr Strelets if you released a set of say 6 or 8 French artillery pieces in a box with no figures.
you could then release the crews of different nations in separate sets for instance I believe The Dutch, Bavarian, Polish, Wurttemberg & others used the same guns.
You could as well consider different timelines as well with 2 different uniforms for the French armies, & add limbers & other things at a later date if these prove popular.:astonished:

Re: French Nap Artillery

'Fed up with Napoleonics', what a strange concept!

Speaking personally, I can always find room for sets that are as beautifully sculpted as yours. For me I'll get the coming late Russians and Austrians in greatcoats in larger numbers as they are not armies/styles that I have built up previously (as I have, for example, with the lovely Redbox early Russians).

As has been noted in previous posts, early Russians in greatcoats and even earlier Russians in hats remain a gap (the old Esci set of 'Prussians' was the only one). Similarly, Austrians in kasket have only been done in a part-set and they are 'giants'.

Still with infantry, few of the French-allies who contributed smaller forces have been produced specifically (e.g Dutch with plume at the side). Then you get into artillery and cavalry...

Napoleonics remain a wonderful, bottomless pit of 1/72nd joy!!