General Boudet
With Boudet’s division shaping up, I needed a General of Division figure for the man himself. I didn’t plan to have miniatures to represent every General of Division but only to have command bases for divisions that could or did act as independent commands. Boudet was certainly left to cope on his own at Essling when Marshal Lannes and the rest of his ad hoc Corps headed off in the opposite direction. With Pendraken not producing any French generals, I turned to Magister Militum and their French Mounted Commanders pack (FR501). I chose a figure because I liked
the way the general was leaning forward as if
something had caught his attention. However,
I didn’t care for his rather un-French shaped
bicorne so I sculpted my own which I
reckoned looked more like the classic hat
design worn by both French generals and
marshals. This putty effort, I thought, was
much more successful than my previous
attempt at a French officer’s hat (see Post 66). I
also gave his hat a more standard sized
cockade.
(ABOVE) On the right, the original Magister Militum figure
undercoated with spray primer. On the left, the general with
his new putty hat, undercoated with brush-on primer (see
Post 172).
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