15th Legere in 28mm

The skirmisher stand featured in the prior post describing my skirmisher reorganization efforts was a precursor to today's painting desk offering. The parent battalion for that pair of skirmishers musters off the desk as the 15th Legere Battalion.  Figures are Front Rank.  Robust figures with very little flash, Front Rank Napoleonics are always a pleasure to paint.

It was during the work on this battalion that I contemplated my present skirmisher situation.  Should skirmishers remain an abstraction in the rules or revert to an explicit skirmisher function?  Do I really want to tackle rebasing all of my skirmishers?  After completing the 15th, the two skirmishers were pulled aside for a trial.  To ease my mind into the new thought process, the two skirmishers for the 15th were based upon the hex stand.  After painting, flocking, and tufting the stand, I decided this was the proper way forward.  Many hours later, the task was finished.   

    

Here is another photo of the skirmisher stand taken at a slightly different angle from the photo shown in the previous post.

What this exercise demonstrates is that I can be easily distracted from the task at hand.  What began as fielding one more French legere battalion for the project took a sharp turn into a rethink and rebasing of all of the skirmishers present and fit for duty.  With initial intention only to add one more battalion, those plans were confounded by rebasing nearly 100 individual skirmishers into pairs.  In addition, a dozen new skirmishers needed to be pushed into the painting queue to bring all of the battalions up to the proper complement of skirmishers.  Sometimes, I make a mountain out of a mole hill.