Napoleonic Austrian cuirassier regiment no 6 Napoleonic 12

 These are cuirassier regiment no 6 Mack, assembled from the Perry plastic kit, nice to put together and I'm pretty happy with the white and how the unit has come out overall, I found an expensive liquatex artists acrylic with masses of pigment in the shed and tried that, when I am priming Austrians next I'll do it in white as I  have followed David's ( in the Analogue Hobbies painting challenge) advice and bought some contrast paints, but as I have a ton in black and grey, I'll stick to my new white for a bit though!

I like cavalry as I just bash out the horses rapidly, I'm in the middle of another unit of plastic cuirassiers, the trouble is I'm painting so many cavalry units that I'm going to have to expand my infantry numbers,mission creep? I guess so! Some Austrian artillery and command along soon.

All the best Iain 

  

1809 Salzburg Landwehr Napoleonic 11

 Here is another Landwehr unit, Salzburg,next to no white but yellow facings. These are mostly Perry bodies with Victrix heads. The officer is a Perry plastic Confederate as are the drum,drummers arms and flagpole and arms with Victrix bodies.

A casualty marker for last weeks lower Austrian Landwehr  and a generic Austrian Infantry marker,as I decided I would like the Salzburg marker to be wearing the right hat!

Flag by Victrix once more, the older pattern used by Landwehr. I'm getting used to painting the flagpole as it doesn't take as long now!

Working on some Austrian cavalry next,lets see how we go.

All the best 

Iain 

Lower Austrian Landwehr Napoleonic 10

 Lower Austrian Landwehr unit in grey. Victrix plastic figures, slightly more exaggerated than Perry ,nice to paint, they started out as Vienna Volunteers but I couldn't face painting their breeches white,so they're Lower Austrian Landwehr, all in grey!

I will have to do the Vienna Volunteers at some point I guess, but not just yet. Flag from Victrix, a 1792 one, the officer shouldn't really have a sash at this period in the Landwehr but I didn't want to butcher such a lovely characterful figure, almost finished the next unit of Landwehr, so you should see them next week.

All the best 

Iain 

 

Napoleonic Austrian Infantry regiment no10 Anton Mittrowski and no 15 Zach Napoleonic 9

 These have taken a bit longer than I'd hoped, 48 28mm Perry plastic Austrians, although as you only get one command in a box and I like to field units of 24, I've suplemented them with 2 Victrix plastic figures converted into a flag bearer and the other into a drummer with surplus Victrix French drum arms and drum,the officer is a rather more heavily converted Perry plastic dismounted French dragoon with Victrix arms,he is alright but for the additional six boxes I'm going to use the Perry plastic Confederate command sprue as you get an officer in a long coat, a flag bearers arms and pole and a drum with arms ,perfect for £1.00!

I still haven't got the white right, the red faced regiment ,IR 10, has had another process (a top highlight of white) whereas the green faced regiment IR 15 I've only used white on the straps  and I kind of think that might work better with the off white uniform? I also was wondering if I should have primed them black like the casualty figures I've done,they're converted from British casualties that you get with Perry's French heavy cavalry and as I have no intention of doing British  (my nephew is and you've got to draw a line somewhere!) so hacked them about a bit, I think they're good enough. I've been thinking about my approach to painting white and I might be onto something, let's hope so as I have literally hundreds of the blighters to do!

All the best 

Iain 

Seven Essex shot make a London trained bands regiment, war of three Kingdoms/ECW 19

I  have finally finished the last of the great 17th century rebasing 4 units of cavalry, 2 units of dragoons, a number of command stands and with the addition of these 7 1980s Essex shot figures I can field a 6th pike and shot regiment from his figures.  

This gives me the red regiment of the London trained bands( hence the buff coats)for the battle of Cropredy, so I wanted a bit of variety with them, it also meant I could dump various left over figures in too, to make the numbers up! Apostles in green to match the  existing shot, I haven't copied the original style but I think they do. As you can see I have moved over to six /seven figures on a stick to speed up production , ammunition quality painting but not too bad for an evenings work. 

This is a photo of the  unit together with all the figures I have from the Blax trade(a Jacobite cannon and crew have skedadled across the Atlantic) I owe them an additional flag at some point. 

They've already seen action with the siege of Worcester but I thought they could do with their own post,sorry if I've dropped off on some of  my comments but I've had a bout of covid, all good now,next up some more Napoleonics.

All the best Iain