- 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
