Unit pictures - Seven Years War

This first picture is also in the previous (Jacobite Rising units) post. They are SYW Highland infantry - no grenadier figures in this unit

The remaining pictures are of FSW 5s and 6s, French Light Infantryman and officer. I bought these as two lots on ebay, the first marked as a Croat infantry unit and the second as Fusiliers de Montagne. The knneling figures in the Croat unit are lamming SYW figures and were a real bonus. With one exception the musket armed S range figures have had their bayonets removed. The hornist/bugkler does not appear in any S range list so I think is a conversion from the light infantryman figure.

The unit described as Fusiliers de Montagne are shown below. All the figures in this unit are S Range. The third photo shows a moore original example of the base figure with bayonet. The last photo shows the command group figures, with hornist and blunderbus conversions (an NCO?), the officer and musketeer, and the standard bearer, which again I have not found in any list I have seen, The flag pole he is carrying looks intrinsic to the figure so it is not at first glance a coversion of the basic infantryman figure.These command figures are interesting and contribute to a very attractive unit.

Pictures added

New pictures have been added to a number of existing posts. These include FSW 5s and 6s (SYW), NS 5s and BNC 29s (Napoleonic); and FFP 8s. Some of these figures are also shown here.

New (old) pictures - Seven Years War French

More pictures from the very early Mimiature Figurines catalogue, with the first S Range releases.

The truimpeter is a conversion of the French Hussar figure, again from the catalogue.

FSW 1s French Line Infantryman advancing

FSW 2s French Line Infantry Officer

No picture of this figure is available at present

FSW 3s French Royal Lorraine Grenadier advancing

I am not sure of the identification of the figures in the second two photos, now I have the first picture from the 1971 catalogue, which provides a definitive reference. This figure seems to be carrying his musket higher and also has a plume to the left side of his cap.

FSW 4s French Royal Lorraine Grenadier Officer

FSW 5s French Light Company Infantryman advancing

This shows the orginnal figure (with bayonet) on the right and with bayonet removed (on right). This last figure comes from a unit including convereted hornist and blunderbus figures painted as Fusiliers de Montagne. There are also unit pictures as below.

I also have a unit of these painted as Croat infantry. This includes a large number of Lamming kneeling firing figures.

FSW 6s French Light Company Infantry Officer

The officer figure is the one at the back with raised sword. i have not found the hornist or figure with blunderbus in any S Range listing so I think they are conversions of the figure with musket.

FSW 7s French Line Grenadier advancing

FSW 8s French Line Grenadier Officer

No picture of this figure is available at present

FSW 9s French Line Infantry Drummer (Tricorne)

No picture of this figure is available at present

FSW 10s French Line Infantry Standard Bearer