Napoleon's Sapeur

After a long break with figures, I restarted this Napoleonian Sapeur.
The need of such an unit was apparent after several battles. In fact Sapeurs was a kind of engeniers on the battle field.
They had to unblock routes, to dig trenches and most often to deal with fire. That's why they are considered as precursors of firefighters.
Nontheless this units fought the battle as every other unit and above that they gained a reputation of fierce strong soldiersDue to that commanding officers started to use them as shock troops.
The figure is in the 90mm class.
After a gray primer I used acrilics as base colors. The modulation was made with oil colors.
For the metalic parts I used Agama metal paste, which is buffable, and with some practice realistic effects can be achieved.

Athenian Hoplite 75mm Pegaso Models

Base colors - Valejo acrylics.
Modulation colors - artists oils
The Medusa head on the shield was painted in a schematic manner to corespond with the period but not so schematic as other examples. I belive it was a matter of customer taste.
I used the offered base which was furthermore enhanced with natural materials to represent an arid landscape from the shores of the Mediteranean sea.
I named this vignete "Thalassa - Thalassa !"

Sold out to a private colector.