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REVIEW: ESR Miniatures Napoleonic French Ligne and Legere

Below you'll find a ton of pictures of some of the soon-to-be-released 10mm Napoleonic miniatures from The Wargaming Company , publisher of the Et Sans Resultat ruleset. David with TWC was kind enough to send me these pre-production figures to paint up and review. They're available for pre-order now and shipping after Historicon (end of July).  TLDR: these are really detailed miniatures for 10mm and take paint beautifully. Out of the package, the detail on these figures is quite evident. They come on strips, from which they are easily clipped and cleaned. You could also paint them on the strip if so-inclined.   Once they were based and primed, I used contrast paint to lay down the core uniform colors (mainly the blues and blacks), followed by a series of block painting and highlights with standard paints.  These miniatures are perfect for this process, as the details from the plastic material are extremely deep/pronounced. It was super easy to pick out straps, epaulettes and ev