- Perry plastic Austrian hussars, lovely figures and of course it's mandatory to do the Hessen Homberg regiment for your first unit! I know boring, but what can you do? This will be my only proper Austrian hussars, the other three units are two units of left over early British light dragoons press ganged into the Austrian army, (their horses going to the Austrian dragoons, their later comrades becoming Austrian Uhlans)and one made up of a couple of spare Austrians, some French hussars and some more of the lost early British light dragoons all mixed together on either Prince August home cast horses with Perry plastic heads, (the frankenstein hussars, ) or Warlord ECW plastic horses. But that's in the future, here's the real deal, well as real as I get! I found some geriatric GW elemental green that still seemed to work, contributing to a lovely light operatic costume , sorry uniform.
They're a bit messy, but I think they'll do!
The future holds more Austrian cavalry (as I might have just suggested!) fighting it out with terrain it seems at the moment , I've worked out I've still got a years worth of Austrians to paint at my current level plus a years worth of Spanish, another one of Prussian and one more of Bavarian /Polish plus six months of French , solid painting without doing anything else ( all Napoleonic) ,so add another year for Early Imperial Romans and Celts and say one each for remaining Great Italian Wars and one for Hundred years war, even without dark ages and terrain or bolt action it would mean I'd have to live four years longer than either of my brothers , morbid miniatures, memento mori or just being realistic? Better get my finger out ! Anyway more varied Austrians and terrain coming up at some point, oh and current Napoleonic figures total for the year is 385, one more unit and an individual should get me over the line, I'll see what I can do!
All the best
Iain
A crackin looking bit of brushwork Iain. It's a very distinctive looking unit, and its a must for any gamer.
ReplyDeleteYou’re right! The H-H Regiment is a must. These troopers look great.
ReplyDeleteNapoleonic period continues to baffle and confuse me - but congrats, at least your horses have riders…lol.
ReplyDeleteRather like Mark above, I find the Nappies period all too varied and confusing. However, your unit does look good and one has to admire the sheer variety and elegance of the uniforms, especially of the Hussars:). As for time taken to clear the lead pile, best not to think about it in too much detail, but I know I need to rationalise it down to a much more manageable size...
ReplyDeleteWhat a lovely unit!!!
ReplyDeleteFine looking hussars Iain.
ReplyDeleteWe're all fighting time. The bigger question is whether whittling the lead pile and playing with the toys brings joy in the meantime.
Hussars always look joyous in their splendour. With your ‘realistic’ look at the painting queue, your fast paint approach is exactly what the Napoleonics need ….. well that’s what your Romans, Celts, Italian Wars and Bolt Action think anyway :-).
ReplyDeleteThey look splendid: a fine choice to represent the Kaiserlicks. I don't have the courage to count up the ratio of figures to lifespan ratio: fortunately, that Mount Everest of painting challenges, Napoleonics, is already behind me.
ReplyDeleteThey look great Iain. And I like the way you based them.
ReplyDeleteChris/Iain
Always great to see some Hussars and this lot are lovely, cracking shade of green, they look great.
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