Silver Bayonet

The leather coat over the French tunic came out well. Snakebite Leather Brown did the majority of the work, with some sepia wash here and there, some Zandri Dust around the edges and a touch of Nulin Oil.

The painted on collar on the neck has come out well. The vivandière was a nurse, a camp follower, traders, sometimes wives etc. I chose the bottle and the knife in her pose because in the game a vivandière has a hand weapon and the bottle represents water (because firing muskets dried out the mouth). I might suggest that this is holy water and something she could throw at creatures allergic to faith.

The bottles are painted Dark Angels Green Contrast. The trousers are Morghast Bone and Wraithbone highlight and the tunic is Ultramarine Blue Contrast and Mephiston Red.

The backstory

Monique Franckinioulle is a pro-French Walloon. Her husband was wounded under the eagles and she searched the battlefield for his body, only to find a pack of ghouls feasting on his barely cold corpse. She was found by a cavalry patrol drenched in the blood of several ghouls she had beaten to death with a broken musket. The troop arrested her and brought her back to camp. As Ghouls are feral humans, looking like any other human in death, to the young cavalry officer it looked like a deranged murder of civilians by a grief stricken camp follower. The word got out about the killing and her self-defense claim that they had tried to eat her. A Supernatural investigator and a French Officer halted proceedings and said that she would be tried in Paris, but she was released from her shackles as soon as they were out of earshot of the army. Since then she has been invaluable to the team.