Maybe your right Ivo. If you can paint as good as you, 54 mm will always be the best scale specially in the Napoleontic era.
Now and then I'll try a 54mm but the laces are always a pain into the ass.
Luis, I have that for many years. Infact I bought it at a opticien and it is not plastic lenzes but glass and it is correct for color.
But my paint flows always into the lace instead at top of it.
And I like the NM painting, but cannot manage it.