My brother has finally started to put together and paint his first batch of Victrix French infantry, the opposition for my recently arrived Brits. Found out that the reason it took so long for my stuff to arrive from Victrix was the whole paranoia about toner and ink cartridges being bombs (Thanks terrorists). I e-mail Victrix yesterday about why it was taking so long, a little over a month I think, to get my stuff and they promptly responded with equal puzzlement and a link to the Royal Mail's website talking about the alert. Then, to make me look like an idiot, it all arrived a few hours later. But here is what I hope to be the first of many pictures of actual miniatures:
Painted by William Blodgett. I'll get more pictures so we can see detail. Will is a fairly good painter of WH40k miniatures but he was telling me this morning that these French are much more challenging to paint than the oddly proportioned GW minis. We'll see how he does! Update: Here are the painted minis, not the best of quality pictures but they get the gist of what they look like.
