Austrian dragoon regiment no 6 Reisch Napoleonic 83

 Well, my sisters moved out and put an offer on a flat, so normal service is resumed, except for all the time consuming Christmas socialising, I do want to try and clear the decks for the Analouge Painting challenge so here's another Austrian dragoon regiment, same formula as before, all Perry plastic, Austrian torso's, arms, crest less helmets, sword sheaths and carbines, overall legs from French and Austrian Hussars, except for the trumpeter, who as in all these units started out as either a French dragoon or French cuirassier trumpeter before changing sides! Horses from British light dragoons with their heads swapped for heavy cavalry bridles and greenstuff tail extentions. This is regiment no 6 Reisch with light blue facings, the flag is from the Perry set.

One more Austrian dragoon unit to come, with a rather more disparate set of  mounts but that's some way off, running total of Napoleonic figures this year is 432, I'm hoping to at least get to 450, so more Napoleonics on the way or more terrain or both?!

All the best 

Iain 

Dark age scatter terrain Terrain 31

 Here are some Dark age terrain pieces, a circle of standing stones that started off on a redundant CD but was too much of a squash and a squeeze so I migrated to one of the 150mm x 150mm squares I have knocking around,  6' x 6' in old money,  which seemed to work better, I chopped the corners off to make it less square, then pieces of old foamboard as the basis of the stones and then bits of slate I dug up in the garden of my old home in Barnet, most London gardens have building waste, broken bricks and bits of slate, I've got a load of Spanish slate from the outbuilding of my current house that was demolished for our extension that I've kept for terrain use, dispariged by my roofer as not being up to Welsh quality, but still better than French! Then some filler pva , sand and green masonary paint ,            ( except on the slate ),which I still have almost five litres of, even after 30 years, then  a wash of raw umber emulsion, further emulsion paint all round, black and stone colour on the standing stones and then a dry brush with the stone colour, bit of flock and that's your lot.

 

Next up is a plastic Celtic cross from the Rendra grave set that didn't get used in the central European cemetery, as a marker on a small hill made from the underlay I use as thatch on a CD and some more slate. 

A fun collection of terrain,  Dark Ages , ancients , medieval and beyond ,  dressing or objectives in games like Lion rampant somewhere on the Celtic fringe, be quite nice in a pulp game I guess with various cultists? Not that I have any but you never know! 

I thought the standing stones would also be good as a camp/HQ for the Celtic army  I've had in a box for over a year if I was playing To the Strongest!

 Of course if I have one of those I'll need something similar but different for my Romans,I've got something in mind but what do you think I should do?

All the best 

Iain