Monday, 20 October 2025

Austrian and French support wagons Napoleonic 79

 Here are a pair of 3d printed wagons from warfayre.  These are from a really economical set of four wagons for just under £13.00 plus postage,  I've ended up getting another set and a pontoon wagon set. Unlike other 3d prints, they're more like scale models and the texture is more like plastic,  it helps they come in a matt khaki colour as opposed a fluorescent blue or clear, so you can understand what you are dealing with. Primed in Army painter leather brown,except the tilt, primed in Halfords khaki, painted in GW tau Sept ochre and Ieydann dark sun, both geriatric paints that I'll have to replace at some point I guess. 

 

These are Austrian wagons I've used as reference . 

I've painted mine up as Austrian even though strictly speaking they're probably French, I've got quite a bit of conversion work to change the forge set to the Austrian pattern ( to go with a French mobile forge I'm working on) but these are close enough to my eyes. The team to pull them is on order together with some limbers,  not Austrian but Polish horse artillery, they are wearing single breastfed jackets so with a head swaps they should work out pretty well. 








 There is also the French ambulance from the warfayre set, I've lightly converted it as it comes with the back doors open and I preferred them shut. Once again, army painter green spray,agrax wash,black, steel,bit of flock, good to go. Easy clean up and minimal supports, compared to Jonathan's recent 3d print.

 







The French mobile forge which is part of the set, I'm making into a little vignette which has included converting scale appropriate hammer and tongs and scratch building a mobile anvil, that's all been fun! 


My mobile pep kit in the car for Keith. 

 




While we're at it ,the chaos of the shed in mid terrain mode and current occupants of the painting tray in yhe house.

Next up? Terrain , Napoleonics, Napoleonic terrain, something like that?

All the best

 Iain  

34 comments:

  1. Very nice work Iain.
    Cheers,
    Lee.

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    1. Thanks very much Lee,wagons for both of us at the moment!
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  2. The 3D prints look fantastic Iain, and nice conversion work as well, they look very effective all painted up.

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    1. I think they're pretty good prints,especially for the price!
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  3. Lovely pair of wagons. You just need to play a game that uses them! Based on that last picture I would say that you do not understand the true nature of chaos.

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    1. Well,a game would be good! The last picture isn't chaos, that's the organised bit!
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  4. The wagons etc look great little models and you have painted them up really well, very handy to have, great for table dressing or vignettes, very nice indeed.

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    1. Thanks Donnie, agreed, useful bits of kit!
      Best Iain

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  5. We are definitely kindred spirits Iain, your work space looks just as messy and chaotic as my own, and I really like your 3d printed wagons! I think assembling plastic figures while I'm stopped at a red light is taking things a bit far for me, but I admire your dedication!

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    1. Thanks Keith, assembled in a stationary vehicle in a car park! I've tidied up after the pictures embarrassed me a bit! The ruined buildings are in a pair of Tesco carrier bags under the table and Pavlovs house is around the corner on a shelf, it's an existing model I'm planning on adapting, together with a couple more trains plus tenders and goods wagons and as I said some low rise ruins ,oh and an Art Deco cinema/theatre!
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  6. Wagons came out great. And the ongoing chaos of the workstation looks like my own, probably looks like a lot of peoples. 😁

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    1. Thanks Stew, yes creative chaos is quite common I guess!
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  7. The ‘sculpts’ on those wagons are particularly nice. I bought the ones from Warbases and while doing internet searches to look for ammo wagons, real world museum pieces look exactly like those 3D prints.

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    1. Glad the warbase wagons worked out for you, they're not too far off I think?
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  8. The printed wagons look terrific painted up Iain. Great job on them on all.

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  9. Iain, the wagons look great . Nice project and good work explaining the work done. The shots of the wagons are a good advertisement for the printer.

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    1. Thanks Joe, always good to show your working out, right?
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  10. Excellent work on those prints David:).

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    1. Thanks Ray, it's all about wagons for us at the moment!
      Best Iain

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  12. The wagons painted up really well, Iain.

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    1. Thanks Richard, I've got some more Italian Wars wagons I really should finish off!
      Best Iain

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  13. Again, enjoyable. And I love seeing your bench and he things to come!

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    1. Thanks Suber and yes I like seeing how others set up their workstations!
      Best Iain

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  14. Excellent stuff and some ideas for the future 👍

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    1. Thanks Matt, I'm sure you'll be onto them soon!
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  15. More lovely work Iain, I do like to see scenery and support items on the table but my 6x4 table with 28mm figures limits (sadly) how 'scenic' a game can be if it is a typical Napoleonic one with lots of regiments. Well, at least I have found that, a road, a river and buildings takes up a lot of room. Now an 18x4 table would be amazing if I had the room.

    As an aside to assembling plastic figures Iain, how do you store all the spare arms, heads etc that comes with the 'box'?

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  16. Great work Iain, wagons are useful and characterful pieces I find :)

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