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Miniatures Adventure => Age of the Big Battalions => Topic started by: Gangleri on November 08, 2018, 04:52:10 PM
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Hello, all.
Yet another long-running project of mine that has come along in fits and start, Napoleonics. Some of these were painted quite a few years ago using the dip method, which seemed appealingly simple at the time but which in the end was dissatisfying. So I have updating/retouching, rebasing, and expanding battalions and armies, starting first with my beloved Austrians.
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2nd battalion, IR15 "Baron von Zach," which played a notable role at Aspern.
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1st battalion, IR49 "Baron von Kerpen"
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Grenzregiment 9 "Peterwardeiner, " advancing in loose order on rough ground and making contact with the enemy.
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Grenadierbattalion von Scharlach, composed of the grenadiers from IRs 31 "Benjowsky," 32 "Eszterhazy," and 51 "Splenyi."
More to follow in a few days. C&C welcome. If the photos are too large, let me know, and I will reduce the size.
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Wow... :o
They look beautiful.
Cheers,
Don
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Lovely!! Superb work, really something to be proud off. :)
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Splendid, I really like the Austrian army, you have done a splendid job on those.
I am currently putting together a painting chart to share with everybody on my blog. I enjoy painting Austrians and plan to build my victrix and front rank army over winter.
Cheers
Matt
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Very nice work. I especially like the grenzers. :)
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First rate paintjob! I especially like the grenadiers!
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Wow. Superb figures, beautifully painted. The Grenz officer looks quite the dandy with his brown coat with pink cuffs, Hungarian blue trousers and gold sash. A splendid looking fellow, as is his command.
Like a few of the others, I have to say I think the Hungarian grenadiers are the outstanding unit, but they are only the best of a glorious bunch. (How did one of them come by a gold bayonet? Was it some glorious deed for the Emperor?! ;) )
Thank you for sharing. :-)
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Very nice indeed, well worth the effort. It's funny how as you progresses through your wargaming life looking at a collection done many years ago you can find them a bit unsatisfying, I am in the same boat and re doing all of my French Rev collection. I don't know what they looked like before but wow they look great now!
Dave.
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Thank you very much to all for the kind and encouraging comments! I am very gratified to read them.
Very nice indeed, well worth the effort. It's funny how as you progresses through your wargaming life looking at a collection done many years ago you can find them a bit unsatisfying, I am in the same boat and re doing all of my French Rev collection. I don't know what they looked like before but wow they look great now!
Dave.
Thanks very much, Dave. I know what you mean about looking back over one's modeling/wargaming career. As a matter of fact I feel rather ashamed of how lazy (or so it seems to me now) I'd been with my Napoleonics several years ago. But it's quite rewarding to refurbish them. I hope you will share with us your French Rev collection as well.
Wow. Superb figures, beautifully painted. The Grenz officer looks quite the dandy with his brown coat with pink cuffs, Hungarian blue trousers and gold sash. A splendid looking fellow, as is his command.
Like a few of the others, I have to say I think the Hungarian grenadiers are the outstanding unit, but they are only the best of a glorious bunch. (How did one of them come by a gold bayonet? Was it some glorious deed for the Emperor?! ;) )
Thank you for sharing. :-)
Thank you! I quite like the Grenzer officer too - so much in fact that I am thinking of getting another to use as a staff officer. As for the golden bayonet, I think I just forgot to highlight it after a wash. Thanks for pointing this out, I had completely missed it. Although the idea of receiving a golden bayonet is funny enough that I might just leave it.
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4th battalion, Vienna Volunteers, which, like its sister battalions, distinguished itself throughout the period and especially in 1809. Note the absence of sash on the officer and the pointed cuffs, characteristics of volunteer uniforms. Also the Schuezten at the end of the line, in greatcoats.
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In 1809 the Vienna Volunteers were issued with older versions of the Ordinarfahne that had been stored in depots. Note also the distinctive and unusually gaudy uniform of the drummer, which I found in an old Austrian print. He was converted from some Nassauer, I forget which.
Hope you like 'em!
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Exceptional job! Very nice grey tone and crispy neat painting!
Congrats! Also your flags are superb! Cheers!
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Absolutely nice painted, these Austrians!
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Nice unit the volunteers, really nice!!
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Exceptional job! Very nice grey tone and crispy neat painting!
Congrats! Also your flags are superb! Cheers!
Thank you! The flags are (so far) just photocopies of the ones in the uniform guide that comes with the Perry box.
Nice unit the volunteers, really nice!!
Absolutely nice painted, these Austrians!
Thanks, gents.
A base of sappers. Not really sure what made them different from Pioniere, but they have a nice uniform. Basic Perry plastics with plasticard shovels, GS plumes and pompoms, and the knucklebows cut off the sabers. Oh, and the gaiters trimmed down into boots.
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Hussar Regiment #6 "Blankenstein"
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These are refurbished from an early painting effort several years ago. A very striking uniform all in all, I think.
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In order to represent the smaller Austrian regiments, generally of three divisions of two squadrons each, I use only six riders, which matches one figure per squadron (also cuts down costs).
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Might have some French up next.
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Lovely Hussars, really nice work and such a lovely uniform. :)
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Lovely Hussars, really nice work and such a lovely uniform. :)
Thanks very much!
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The French army will begin to take to the field for the New Year's campaign season, so I started reworking them as well. Here are some dragoons who got the rebasing/repainting treatment.
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And a Cavalry general to lead them:
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Happy 2019!
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Excellent stuff
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(How did one of them come by a gold bayonet? Was it some glorious deed for the Emperor?! ;) )
No, but he gets to tour the chocolate factory at the end of the campaign.....
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Great looking army! 8)
Christopher
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No, but he gets to tour the chocolate factory at the end of the campaign.....
Ha! And a free sample in the gift shop.
Great looking army! 8)
Christopher
Thanks very much.
Excellent stuff
Thank you!
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Really beautiful figures! I just started painting Russian Napoleonic miniatures and I can appreciate the amount of work that you have put in. What game are they based for?
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Excellent stuff!! :)
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Really beautiful figures! I just started painting Russian Napoleonic miniatures and I can appreciate the amount of work that you have put in. What game are they based for?
Thank you kindly. They are not based for anything in particular, since I am much more of a painter than a gamer. The only thing I've ever used them for is March of Eagles. One day I hope to find a group to have some proper games with, though.
Excellent stuff!! :)
Thank you!
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Hey, everyone. Quick update on this project.
First, I finished a stand of Pioniere. The pioneers were the least skilled of the engineering services, often providing supportive manual labor to the other corps, such as the sappers shown earlier.
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The officer is a converted infantry officer, with a plastic Korsehut and some other changes from his original attacking pose. The others are a plastic sergeant and two converted Lippe-Detmold infantry. The Rheinbund range has a lot of fodder for Austrian conversions.
Also, work continues on my farmland scenery.
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The farmhouse is modeled after one of Oshiro's excellent buildings on his "German/Austrian Builds" log which is well worth a look-see.
The yard:
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A dovecote, complete with bird poop, copied from a photo of a Lower Austrian dovecote:
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A countryman's woodpile can never be big enough:
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Traditionally shaped beehives:
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Pioneers advance past the orchard to clear some obstacles:
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More to follow soon. C&C welcome.
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Very nice additions!
The farmhouse is top notch! Cheers!
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Beautiful work, and I especially like the beehives.
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Splendid troops , a pleasure to see the more unusual units Austrian units on the table .
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Splendid troops , a pleasure to see the more unusual units Austrian units on the table .
Thanks very much. I am really trying to add a bit of variety beside the standard 'whitecoats' (see below).
Beautiful work, and I especially like the beehives.
Thank you! I am very fond of them too, and I use them a bunch in medieval/fantasy settings.
Very nice additions!
The farmhouse is top notch! Cheers!
Thanks, Din. I am just getting into scratch-building buildings, so this farmhouse was a good learning experience.
I was also able to finish a unit that has been in the works for a long time, a battalion of Carinthian Landwehr.
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Perry plastics with the Korsehut trimmed down into the stovepipe shown in uniform records. The officer, however, is a Nassauer, with his coat front resculpted. It would probably have been more accurate to make the coats double-breasted, but the Landwehr was not always precise with uniform specifications and it would have been a lot of work anyway. Some of the troops have been given Perry ACW slouch hats and different-colored greatcoats to reflect this, though in actuality there would have been more obvious variability in uniforms. The flag is speculative but in keeping with known Landwehr standards of this time, which usually feature a local/regional coat-of-arms on a white field with some sort of flame pattern around the edge. The pole is in the regional colors: yellow over red over white.
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An Eder illustration taken from the excellent Napoleon Series website. Now that I look at it again, I will probably go back and add a few red-and-yellow pom-poms.
Hope to have more soon.