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Miniatures Adventure => Age of the Big Battalions => Topic started by: Freddy on September 05, 2022, 11:33:34 PM
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So I decided to start this thread for my project of the Hungarian Revolutionary War of 1848.
Wtf is that-you might ask, so better start with a little historical summary: in the 1010s the first king of Hungary, István I., created an administration based on counties (this system is still in use novadays), and in 1222 the [X+1]th king of Hungary, András II. granted the right for the Hungarian nobilities to form a parliament. The county-based noble parliament was then the backbone of Hungarian government for 650 years (only replaced by the modern democracy), whoever ruled the country, could not govern without the Parliament (sometimes called Diet, its contemporary Latin name).
The Habsburgs, seizing the Hungarian crown in the early 1500s, soon realized this, they never could really merge Hungary into their Empire, always needed to compromise with the Parliament (ok, sometimes threat them) whose goal was national self-government ofc. Their plan with Hungary was to keep it a reliable and quiet background producing wheat and soldiers for their wars in the West, which worked during the 18th century and the Napoleonic Wars, but in the 19th the Parliament grew more ambitious, fighting for various reforms. In early 1848 the most ambitious reform package so far was sent to the Emperor, who was reluctant first. Then the Revolutionary Spring of 1848 swept through Europe, including a (bloodless) one in Buda on March the 15th, this broke the stalemate and the Emperor finally accepted these so called April Laws.
Everyone was happy, but not for long since Wien only accepted the April Laws to stall the Hungarians until the Habsburgs crush their revolutions and stabilize their status in Italy. To keep the Parliament occupied, they decided to feed the Hungarians their own medicine, and agitated the minorities in Hungary against them.
Romanians (into Transylvania) and Serbians (into the South) started to migrate to Hungary in greater numbers during 18th century, while Croatians were always there, Hungary capturing Croatia in the late 11th century. On the top of that Serbians and Croatians served the Habsburgs as border guards on the southern border, so they had weapons and considerable military experience. The newly (according the April Laws) formed Hungarian militia, the National Guard was already knee-deep in a war before the real enemy even revealed himself.
Not that they had to wait too long for that. As the situation in Italy became better, the Habsburgs turned towards Hungary. The Hungarian government got an ultimatum: cancel the April Laws, or being forced to cancel the April Laws by the Habsburg Army. Looking at the title of this topic, you can guess the answer, so the Emperor sent Lieutenant-General Jellasich to crush the "rebellion". This, of course, pushed everyone in Hungary into the revolutionary camp, so they started to organize a standing army, the so called Honvédség (hard to translate, Homeland Defense Force or something like that). The 35-40k strong Austrian army met the 27k strong Hungarian army in the battle of Pákozd on Sept 29th, and Jellasich suffered a defeat, with heavy losses, retreating towards Wien.
The pursuing Hungarian army was only stopped near Wien, at Schwechat. During the late autumn and the winter the war went back and forth, an Austrian counter-attack captured Western Hungary, while Hungarians completely liberated Transylvania. Both armies grew, the Austrians soon had 165k fighting men in the country, facing the 150k strong Hungarian army. In the spring of 1849 the Hungarian Army got a new commander, just like Lincoln found Grant, the Hungarian president Kossuth found Artúr Görgei, a young and ambitious commander-in-chief. The Glorious Spring Campaign liberated most of Hungary, and the Habsburgs were officially dethroned. That is when the disaster struck: Player 3 entered the game.
The new Emperor, Franz Joseph (who took the crown after the resignation of Ferdinand V. in Dec 2nd), saw his armies unable to defeat the Hungarians and on May 1st he turned to the Russian Tzar Nicholas I for help. The Russians saw the Hungarian situation with increasing worries, fearing the flame of the rebellion spreading to Poland. They agreed to help, and during the summer of 1849 a 200k men strong Russian army attacked Hungary from the rear. Unable to withstand the wrath of two empires, the armies of Görgei were pushed back, and, after failing to prevent the Austrian and the Russian Army to join forces, the Hungarians capitulated at Világos on Aug 13rd (the last fortress, Komárom, held until October, General Klapka only capitulated after a pardon was granted for him and his men)
The furious Austrians took heavy sanctions on Hungary, and the Hungarian nobles went into a passive resistance. Franz Joseph fought his wars without the Hungarian support. It did not went very well, after the catastrophical defeats in his Italian and Prussian wars he finally realized that peace is the way. In 1867 he agreed with the Hungarians, lifting all the sanctions (up to the re-forming of the Honvédség), pardoning every rebel, and, in return, being accepted as the rightful king. The Habsburg Empire was no more, the dualist state of the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy was officially formed, granting a golden age for both nations.
This is the brief summary of it, the not so brief could fill libraries- and it actually does, but only in Hungarian language, this war is being a really popular topic here, every town having its own story, national holidays to remember it, everything from streets to cigarette brands named after the popular heroes, etc. Time to also have some wargaming of it.
This war was the last of the Napoleonic era, being fought just a few months before the Minié bullet changed the warfare. Also this was the first major conflict where both sides used trains and steam ships for transporting troops and supplies. (Even featured a train hijack). The scale is from the very little skirmishes to the big battles of 80-100k soldiers fighting, so it has all from lore-wise.
I chose the system of Black Powder for the project, but it can be played with any matching system, be it big army or skirmish. The base unit back then was the battalion, featuring 600 men on paper. I will represent these with 10 men battalions- this way I can paint and field a lots of units with their distinctive uniform variations. I base them individually on the 20*20mm WHF-standard bases, which I put into movement trays. The trays are laser-cut, one of my friend does them.
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Lets start with the Hungarians. The problem with them is that they almost have zero figures available in this size, so you have to be creative.
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The infantry. There were line regiments, the National Guard and the Honvédség, first I concentrated on the latter one, being the most iconic. I started with the weapons, I made them from plastic and green stuff. The standard weapon of both the Hungarian and the Austrian army was the Augustin rifle, a percussion musket. After the hostilities started, Hungarians also started to produce it, being able to properly equip the army.
(https://i.ibb.co/d4kQ69F/1848-fegyverek1.jpg)
The soldiers I sculpted from green stuff, then they went into resin casting.
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The drums and the flags were conversions. I used WHF bitz :)
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The flags I painted by hand. Next time I will use paper ones :P
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The first batch of soldiers were made with the rifle pointing forward. Later I sculpted a soldier with a shouldered rifle to form the back lines.
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The standard uniform was blue trousers, brown jacket with red emroidery and a black shako. In addition, there was a blue field cap. Two battalions (9th Kassa and 11th Kolozsvár) got their field caps in red colour, and they were allowed to wear them on the battlefield as honours for their bravery. Five battalions wear standard uniform, the one in the front is wearing this red cap.
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According to Black Powder rules, the army also has separate commander and sub-commanders, I chose to field the units in regiments of 3 battalions, just like they were in reality. For my 60 men I needed two Colonels. These are also my sculpts, casted and converted. The Hungarian official cadre was quite of a high quality, featuring mostly officers experienced in the Habsburg army. Their clothing was varied, they rarely wore the standard uniform. These two guys do, more or less. For the sake of convenience, I use infantry commanders for infantry units despite officers usually commanded from horseback.
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The commander. He is a real person, General Damjanich. A Serbian man, who became Hungarian and became one of the best generals of the 1848 army. Winner of many battles, he died as part of the Arad 13, the 13 generals executed for treason in Arad on 1849 Oct 6th. I used a WHF horse and made the general out of green stuff. His sword is from the WHF Empire Militia, he had a distinctive, broad-bladed sabre.
(https://i.ibb.co/z4NNWhb/Damjanich10.jpg)
The artillery. For these I used Napoleonic Austrian cannons from Front Rank, and sculpted the crew myself. They also can be detached from the base. Hungarian artillery was of high quality, the April Laws placed every army unit in Hungary under Hungarian command, the most prized of these were the 5th artillery regiment stationed here. The foreign crew eventually defected to the Imperials, but not before they trained the Hungarian artillery crews, and ofc they left their cannons too. The backbone of Hungarian artillery was the 6 pounder, also produced locally: Hungarian produced guns were painted light gray, while the ones originating from the 5th regiment were raw wood colour. Painting the side of the cannon for national tricolor was Hungarian custom. Hungarian batteries were organized with 8 guns instead of the austrian standard 6, the Austrians later adopted the 8.
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6 pounders:
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6 pounder horse cannon:
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3 pounder:
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12 pounder:
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This is the Hungarian Army so far. The most urgent upgrade will be the cavalry, hussars to be more exact. Hussars in the Habsburg army were recruited from Hungary and they basically were the Hungarian cavalry itself in every war since the late 1500s.
Then I will concentrate on the National Militia. They were recruited based on the counties, and in the first weeks their uniform was all but standard. Some were overly decorated, some wore civilian clothes. Civilian clothing back then was colourful and varied, it will be an interesting sculpting and panting project. This guy is basically wearing civilian clothes and a straigthened scythe, but he can be built with any head and I sculpted a musket for him too.
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This other is smoking a pipe while loading his gun, over the (eventually more-or less) standardized National Guard uniform he is wearing a civilian greatcoat (called "szűr")
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Then the sky is the limit: the line regiments, the foreign legions, the jaegers, the missile artillery, the free corps, etc, etc
The Austrians. The backbone of the Austrian army were the line regiments, here I simply used the Warlord late Napoleonic Austrians- they can be used without any problem, the distinctive short shako from Franz Josephs early wars was introduced a few years after the 1848 war. And hey, I also have a Napoleonic army this way. The only problem is that I painted them before I decided for the 10 man battalions, so now the 19th regiment has 5 battalions. Whatever.
(https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-fbD3Ck1HrHE/X7AGDGfQGbI/AAAAAAAAAEk/wyxFIEdi4aMQrrLV4TKaY35XJjgCcxVmwCLcBGAsYHQ/w687-h330/Osztr%25C3%25A1k_Sereg_4.jpg)
Now here is great potential for development. They will need some cannons first (the same types as for the hungarians), and then some cavalry: the heavy Kürassiers were the elite of the Habsburg army and lets say they earned their reputation in 1848-49 too. I will also add some Grenzers too.
And the Player3. It was actually very rare that the Russian and the Austrian army fought on the same field, but I will play like this for a while. Russians are basically the Crimean Russians, Napoleonic uniforms do not cut here any more. I simply bought the Crimean bundle from Warlord, 3 boxes of infantry and two 24 pounder cannons. Now I am painting them.
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Some officers already done:
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They also needed a leader. I sculpted this general, a little easter egg basically being a typical Soviet marshal in the mid-19th century uniform.
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Russians, well, first need to be finished. Then I will have to look for some Cossack figures...
A rarely mentioned battle: the Battle of Garden of Morr. My favourite terrain piece ever, sorry.
(https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-4dcA08Cfebk/YElJMQlZ1FI/AAAAAAAACNc/_J7PnjkKTWsS1Of-n44kg0HiTf3rLFOTQCLcBGAsYHQ/w683-h513/BlackPowderCsata_2_004.jpg)
To be continued...
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Lovely to read of your project. It is on my list of things to do too.
Your figures are excellent, looking very similar to those in The Honved Army. Id love to see more, especially cavalry when you make them.
Have you seen Steve Barber Miniatures Hungarian range in 28mm and the other Hungarian Revolutionary threads on this forum?
Looking forward to your next post!
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Now that is some awesome work with green stuff! o_o
:-*
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Beautiful work, Freddy! And thanks also for the nice historical summary. Some of us Brits are very interested in your '48. I was fighting at Pakozd again last night.
There is a bit more info available on it in English now
https://www.helion.co.uk/military-history-books/hungary-1848-the-winter-campaign.php
or about to be
https://www.helion.co.uk/military-history-books/hungary-1849-the-summer-campaign.php
and I just got the advance copies of the Hungary 1848 scenario book we are publishing for the "Bloody Big Battles!" rules (BBB). The scenario book will be published this month. I also have a Hungarian-language quick reference sheet for BBB in the group files (not that you'd need that, evidently).
https://groups.io/g/bloodybigbattles
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Fantastic work Freddy on the Hungarians. I love your Russians as well. Geoff Coe who started this esoteric period many years ago has died, however, a few of us got on board before Geoff's passing to commission a number of Hungarian Revolution miniatures sculpted by Steve Barber Models to fill out the range. Steve has the majority on his website now, but not all. There were additional miniatures to be sculpted by Steve, but he lost interest. I'm quite proud of my contribution to the range.
I've added the webpage to Steve Barber Models below.
Cheers,
Helen (aka Grey Heron)
https://www.stevebarbermodels.com/store/-c36555063
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Lovely work.
I when down the conversion of Perry miniatures for my 1848 armies. I am working on the artillery at the moment.
HunLion
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Thank you for the kind words and the links! I am just like almost anyone in this hobby, a guy with too many projects and too little free time, so this project wont be a quick one, but I try to organize my projects the way to ensure steady progress for all of them.
Have you seen Steve Barber Miniatures Hungarian range in 28mm
Yes, I know the models of Steve Barber, my two problems are 1.) I discovered them long after this project was started. His most complete range is the Honvéd infantry, the same what I did first. 2.) His sculpting style is different from mine. This is not a problem on army level, but most of his range being not complete, I would have to mix the figures on unit level too. Anyways, I plan to order some of his figures, especially the National Guard models.
and the other Hungarian Revolutionary threads on this forum?
Before deciding to start a thread, I was lurking here a little bit, but there are so many projects I did not find them, only discovered them after this thread was started and the forum engine threw up the similar threads down there.
Geoff Coe who started this esoteric period many years ago has died, however, a few of us got on board before Geoff's passing to commission a number of Hungarian Revolution miniatures sculpted by Steve Barber Models to fill out the range. Steve has the majority on his website now, but not all. There were additional miniatures to be sculpted by Steve, but he lost interest. I'm quite proud of my contribution to the range.
Sorry to hear about losing him, it is always nice to talk with like minded individuals from other countries!
I am working on the artillery at the moment
Wow, an impressive artillery section, with that amount of cannons the Honvédség would be able to win not just the Pákozd, but also the Verdun Battle too :)
Now that is some awesome work with green stuff!
Thank you! For the older models I used green stuff and milliput, recently I switched to FIMO for the whole man- type of figures. It is an oven-hardening sculpting material, suits better my lifestyle of having one TV show episode long time slots for modelling. With gs and milliput I was too stressed because of the hardening time, the FIMO I can put down when the time is over and can pick up 1-2 days later to continue.
Id love to see more, especially cavalry when you make them.
For the cavalry I got some Napoleonic Austrian hussars, they will be ok for the first batch, later I will sculpt my own. I started a sub-project for horses, the will serve my medieval Hungarian and even my W40k army too. First I sculpt a naked horse, then it will be casted, then I will add the gear suitable for the given period. Here is one with hussar gear. The initial sculpt:
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Cast:
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One assembled naked :)
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And the masters with hussar gear:
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For the book, yes, I really like the works of Győző Somogyi. He has a series of books of Hungarian military history from the nomad times to the Warsaw Pact now released in English too (some 15 books in total), I use these books for my medieval Hungarian projects too. His collection of 1848 drawings appeared in more editions of similar books during the years, my favourite being Zoltán Barczy-Győző Somogyi: A szabadságharc hadserege. It is an 1986 book, so the newer drawings are not in, but it comes with a rich textual material.
If you look closely, the two National Guard sculpts come directly from Somogyi- illustrations :)
and I just got the advance copies of the Hungary 1848 scenario book we are publishing for the "Bloody Big Battles!" rules (BBB). The scenario book will be published this month. I also have a Hungarian-language quick reference sheet for BBB in the group files (not that you'd need that, evidently).
Oh yes, Napoleonic era has many rulesets, and I try to keep my collections flexible enough to fit all of them, Black Powder was simply the starting point. If BBB has a dedicated 1848 supplement, then count me in :)
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Excellent response !
Keep those figures coming :D
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Incredibly impressive project - will be fascinating to see it develop.
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Thanks Freddy! Here is some of my work, albeit quite small at the moment.
https://leadadventureforum.com/index.php?topic=124614.0
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Excellent response !
Keep those figures coming
Incredibly impressive project - will be fascinating to see it develop.
Thank you! We will see the speed of the development, what you see here is the product of several years, and soon I will post some of my other projects too so that I will have an excuse for the slow progress in each of them :)
Thanks Freddy! Here is some of my work, albeit quite small at the moment.
Thanks for the link, I did not even have it in the Similar projects section. Your figures look very good, you managed to capture the vibrant, bright nature of these uniforms better than me, my painting style is a bit on the darker side. (I also have a 40k Imperial Guard army, might come from there.)
I also dug up some more WIP pics. Here you can see one of the first soldiers, he was not even a full cast, I only had the body, the head and the gun back then, the rest was sculpted.
(https://i.ibb.co/pXHd60W/48ashonved2.jpg)
The first batch of models had separate arms. I am aiming for modular figures so that I can convert them. Some of these even found their way to my 40k project. I also use resin as the material, I understand the fans of lead, metal is classic and traditional, but as a modeller I am a guy with more of a target-oriented mindset.
(https://i.ibb.co/pv1T2Pw/48ashonved12.jpg)
A later batch, as you can see nothing is perfect, I had to adjust the neck pieces manually.
(https://i.ibb.co/p2C0WpJ/48ashonved47.jpg)
An illustration of what I wrote above from converting. the master of the shouldered gun honvéd is a pretty easy conversion from the advancing one.
(https://i.ibb.co/1LdDRLh/Honved48-1.jpg)
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Thanks Freddy. Love your style of sculpting and modelling. You have captured the feel of the Honved soldier very well.
Cheers!
Helen
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Those figures are full of character
I really like them.
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Love your style of sculpting and modelling. You have captured the feel of the Honved soldier very well.
Those figures are full of character
I really like them.
Thank you!
Meanwhile I continued painting, the two Russian 24 pounders are done.
(https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjSAR_SJVUBgtVy_1y0Id9l5yyr-h0GUMnxNAbDTGu-iHcphP4sGgpkO695iYww_oTrMj5f8-OsDpLoW8Pn-xBuDflD9LCFhMuLKB6ljhS4ntfskMVCfnq4zIhq9aB_W5m0xMPWw3beoVEWVjRM5sQR0vHet-ICFqGbkUrSmqT7eztcieErB1N_4kdd/w653-h335/Orosz_24fontos_1.JPG)
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(https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhXNL1tO9SHPAuTfqHkCLdJGBQh7t3AChj6v4aE65vR39iYX_PujSQzqyiA5Uw1nXWhEFzqzeD0tlWg-n3VwIoKazYry87uB5G7UkKmjdGxHVVw9N4vmLx7Ly3vCEGU7zTQE99blK2q7QKJ8vEAdICUOicX2in6rBcaVfrDWCeG3ce7OPQrLG2M7pgH/w470-h383/Orosz_24fontos1_2.JPG)
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Such good animation.
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Such good animation.
Thank you! I am painting now the Russian infantry, there is around 80 of them, so with my 10 man battalions 2 entire regiment (Russians had 4 battalions, Hungarians and Austrians 3 in their regiments).
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Look forward to seeing your Russians. The artillery looks good.
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This is spectacular work and I very much enjoy the historical snippets you throw in. Greetings from the gates of Wien. :)
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Look forward to seeing your Russians. The artillery looks good.
This is spectacular work
Thank you, guys!
and I very much enjoy the historical snippets you throw in.
Nice to hear that :) History is a big part of my enthusiasm for historical wargaming, I also collect a lot of books for my projects. And the story of 1848 is not a broadly known one even among muskets&shakos era wargamers, so I think it is worth to share some background info also.
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Freddy, all,
Anyone following this thread and admiring Freddy's fine work might also be interested to know that the BBB scenario book for this war is now published:
http://bloodybigbattles.blogspot.com/2022/09/bloody-big-hungary-48-battles-scenario.html
It enables you to fight 16 of the biggest and most important battles of the war.
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Freddy, all,
Anyone following this thread and admiring Freddy's fine work might also be interested to know that the BBB scenario book for this war is now published:
http://bloodybigbattles.blogspot.com/2022/09/bloody-big-hungary-48-battles-scenario.html
It enables you to fight 16 of the biggest and most important battles of the war.
Thanks for the info, I will check it!
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The first Russian battalion.
(https://i.ibb.co/vmP1ThD/Orosz-gyalogzaszloalj1-1.jpg)
(https://i.ibb.co/BZdSsg0/Orosz-gyalogzaszloalj1-2.jpg)
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Nice work on the Russians.
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Freddie, great work. I was in the Budapest Military Museum last weekend and was quite inspired. I haven't studied 19th century "Central Euope" since my school days 45 years ago. I may look at the period with Sharp Practice in mind. For the Austrians Osprey produce a 2 volume series on their forces of the period in their Men-at-Arms range.
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Very nice coloring of the miniatures. One can feel the hakarket of the warriors of Nicholas 1
I really liked it
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Lovely brushwork Freddy on the Russians.
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Nice muszkas, Freddy!
SJWi: skirmish isn't my thing at all, but if it's yours, this war has so much scope for unusual actions. Hussars darting into a town just to raise a Hungarian flag as a gesture. Abduction of a sick Austrian officer. Insurgent actions of all kinds. Epic sieges and associated sorties, assaults and relief attempts. Swimming across rivers to steal or burn ship-mills that can be used as bridges. Raids to capture supplies, cattle, or thoroughbred horses from imperial stud farms. And so on.
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Nice work on the Russians.
Nice muszkas, Freddy!
Freddie, great work.
Thank you!
I was in the Budapest Military Museum last weekend and was quite inspired. I haven't studied 19th century "Central Euope" since my school days 45 years ago. I may look at the period with Sharp Practice in mind. For the Austrians Osprey produce a 2 volume series on their forces of the period in their Men-at-Arms range.
Yes, it is a great museum, you could check the broad bladed sabre of general Damjanich I mentioned in the opening post :) I have the Osprey books, but even with two books, their size is simply too short for sufficiently covering such a long period. They have nice pictures though.
SJWi: skirmish isn't my thing at all, but if it's yours, this war has so much scope for unusual actions. Hussars darting into a town just to raise a Hungarian flag as a gesture. Abduction of a sick Austrian officer. Insurgent actions of all kinds. Epic sieges and associated sorties, assaults and relief attempts. Swimming across rivers to steal or burn ship-mills that can be used as bridges. Raids to capture supplies, cattle, or thoroughbred horses from imperial stud farms. And so on.
...and thats before you start to involve the 1848 stories of classical Hungarian literature :)
Very nice coloring of the miniatures. One can feel the hakarket of the warriors of Nicholas 1
I really liked it
Lovely brushwork Freddy on the Russians.
Thank you! regarding the colour, I used my standard recipe for ,,Russian yellow", I use the same to paint Russian uniforms for ww1, ww2 and Cold War era (Soviet-Afghan war). After a lot of experimenting, it is:
-preferably a white basecoat
-Tamiya XF60 Dark Yellow base colour
-GW Athonian Camoshade wash
-a little GW Badab Black wash in the lower areas where more shadow is needed
-minor corrections with Dark Yellow where the wash is too much
-white drybrush
As I said, they came from a Warlord Games Crimean bundle: 3 boxes of infantry and the two canons (with 4-4 crew). The infantry boxes have 4*6 gunmen on plastic sprues:
(https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-YVF2JGh6PqA/X8a8W0UByUI/AAAAAAAAAR0/Fa-yDfO61OE0LiZNvl_0g4WKNkU0XfDVACLcBGAsYHQ/w494-h361/Orosz_dobozbontas1.jpg)
and also a command team of 4 men, but the drummer and the two banner bearers being headless (intended to use leftover heads from the plastic sprues):
(https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ag3QGZaTSw4/X8a8rPS6D6I/AAAAAAAAAR8/-bNa-syaY2sB34kzwarkNAnOljaCA-wMACLcBGAsYHQ/w443-h365/Orosz_dobozbontas2.jpg)
I tried to maximize the pickelhaube heads in my Russian army, but, as you can see, I do not have enough, so I will have one battalion with field caps. I do not know what was the real ratio, but I try to avoid rag-tag look, these soldiers were from a standing army relatively fresh to the conflict, so neither hastily equipped, nor battle worn too much.
This, and the 3 next battalions form the "red-red" regiment: the first regiment of the standard Russian division. It had 4, the second being the ,,red collar-white epaulette" one, with my 80 little soldiers I will able to fill these 2, so a full brigade.
Another characteristic feature of the Warlord box is that everyone is wearing greatcoat. Despite the Hungarian campaign of Nicholas I. took place in late spring and summer of 1849, this is not a problem, Russian soldiers liked the greatcoat in every time of the year, in warm weather they simply wore it without a jacket (so right over their shirt). The summer trousers were white, I had to be careful for that (the cold weather trousers were green).
One last thing to mention is that the Warlord sprues have mixed soldiers with and without swords, swords were the equipment of the grenadiers, who formed the first comany of every (4 company) battalion. They did not differ from regular soldiers otherwise, so on battalion level it is OK to mix sworded and swordless guys, on lower level I will have to be careful.
As I said, my first approach is Black Powder. The Honvéds and the Imperial line regiments will have the standard line infantry profile, the Russians will have 1 point lower shooting for their often insufficient shooting training and lower quality muskets (they used flintlocks, which proved unreliable especially in wet conditions compared to the Ausrian/Hungarian standard percussion muskets), on the other hand they will get +1 to Stamina reflecting their bigger battalion size and their stubborn/unswerving approach of warfare on every level from the drill of the individual soldier to the battle plan.
Then we will see other systems too (BBB :) )
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There is a little town in Transylvania called Körösfeketetó (due to the Versailles treaties after ww1 Romania took it, the Romanian name is Negreni), there is a traditional fair there in every October. It is a huge one, mostly a big flea market, we visited it this weekend. I am always looking for books in these places, and look what I got this time. The history of the Freedom War, 3 volume, straight outta 1894, in great (regarding its age of 120+ years...) condition .
(https://i.ibb.co/7JBgPBg/K-nyv48-1.jpg)
(https://i.ibb.co/q1BcZbx/K-nyv48-2.jpg)
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That looks like a great book....I bet it's stuffed full of great pictures....(hint hint!)
I have similar books on 19thC Battles and the Russo Japanese War. Sadly the former is lacking ANY from Hungary though it does contain battles in Turkey, Poland and Italy from the 1830's and 40's.
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That looks like a great book....I bet it's stuffed full of great pictures....(hint hint!)
It has a lot of pictures like the one on my photo, about battles, portraits and also some disturbing ones about the cruelties commited by Vlach bandits. It even has some reproductions from historical documents attached! But I would not call the pictures its main strength, the real value is the text, it is shocking how detailed yet easy to read these old historical works are. I have only a few from the late 19th most of my old book collection is about ww1, from the 10s-20s-30s, and the book I ever look at first about a ww1 event because it gives the best summary is the Aggházy-Stefán book from 1933 :P
I have similar books on 19thC Battles and the Russo Japanese War. Sadly the former is lacking ANY from Hungary though it does contain battles in Turkey, Poland and Italy from the 1830's and 40's.
In Hungary, we have a very rich historical literature, the problem is the language- it is not even an Indo-European language, so hard to learn; most historians simply leave it alone :P Ospreys book of ,,Hungary and the fall of Eastern Europe 1000-1568" is the funniest example, it only has one Hungarian book (which had an English edition) in the bibliography, despite we really do not suffer from the lack of books in the topic :)
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The first Russian battalion.
(https://i.ibb.co/vmP1ThD/Orosz-gyalogzaszloalj1-1.jpg)
(https://i.ibb.co/BZdSsg0/Orosz-gyalogzaszloalj1-2.jpg)
I'm impressed with your painting WOW :D
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I'm impressed with your painting WOW :D
Thanks! After painting 80 of these little Russians, I will be able to do it with my eyes closed :)
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Honvéd standard bearer sculpt, it was a tricky one, the wire skeleton was first too short, so I had the adjust the boots later. I made the head a separate part so that the rank&file can have some more variety too. The sword is the infantry sword I made for the artillerymen. (The brown and the black is FIMO, the green green stuff).
(https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiv_I2SUE8NQC4WlwF32H_yr1Qbb_lXm7Gsf6ovCM924Th91eVtVodoR8CaxIzNz5U_pA0dVkJJxj0NQ0CdwcUcnlIxZy0G_Luy2mQFLtlBX1AuJDZZ6akBIhOYSk0YBj7z-boGcCZUW1KXAZAuKStBWI1__XjNMzEQGQwrJj3breLVvZO7qr-lKFsx/w319-h600/Honv%C3%A9d_z%C3%A1szl%C3%B3tarto_1.JPG)
(https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEguj6eReFgaRFgbxTJiaqvP6Gvf-QJcqz3fNwsQ7IBLM9C4uKWQ0w75aC1sjODj8gpJTXyPlMB3AbNGN-SDyl3q_LBKxDqIrN_N9jYA9wi0gqWG4DDJEvxb1sxoTwOpJXDYlh5ZlrrsNShQFcy-qlt34xJJvabzRforekB9vMHEJMDxIhLwmYj7USyd/w366-h681/Honv%C3%A9d_z%C3%A1szl%C3%B3tarto_2.JPG)
(https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiIyn6OUJbR3_dznbwX-DDMel7lVl_l-1-IAQ2K15cYL3aIgWmZoj63EeVcIi2DWcnt7MhTvqj-D2QPEFzbbjpis5FzaseAfNwvU4sCuS-bHznEVgKUMjFEeGHZO-nHIsuBvKpiYSMX9_CxCLgyrRfWlKQ6g7AbFqm1WaFgTVv8bwkOzbB14OObkfF0/w359-h592/Honv%C3%A9d_z%C3%A1szl%C3%B3tarto_3.JPG)
(https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg5l4FOERyYLAnfmMNk_F4Fat5hhlJli4UBOsXMQ_L5c69sBMbDgviZKgZbyOYJktzBuToPPee1xVuuKZ8Dx2RSULxkPz_UZvjQu7iwm5UUMR_c4m57-39Hqrgg2gjxbj4YDVZgnm7dRkFI6vUJJNLMOjdGQmk93-jKi_U1A7aHDW7lU7uiEPRUAFwN/w489-h337/Honv%C3%A9d_z%C3%A1szl%C3%B3tarto_4.JPG)
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Wonderful detail, down to the moustache bristles!
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Very interesting! I love that attention to detail!! Thank you!
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Wonderful detail, down to the moustache bristles!
Very interesting! I love that attention to detail!! Thank you!
Thank you, guys! While painting the Russians, now I am preparing a Hungarian command "set" too.
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Second Russian battalion.
(https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQGDW9XVaUNJUyT6xWn9QRXrQ5O4Xd1ACEYjJZV4lelNv54jSCreIZo086gXCdzHGiIKb9DdAxx_Dghi4rIcfWJLeghoqNQUG5KcgCzw5lWCE-jG4cL-YfXP2cZwr-_xGrfgBJ1pGkEQdv6K23KOdhjD8dthoqRfIcjBjr5j1JtJ9oQ2FvPWgR6yVN/w525-h343/Orosz_gyalogzaszloalj2_1.JPG)
(https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghxO7Jpp9HgLPpEfzY8aQzquH3krAoI2-0pj6wa1LZBp03eeJo4gPlVMzB9UUuJRgsXjYZdbVZmKa6DqzgjUDI5qkuIeVdummSYlYMprQ1F_-OuWME7WjsK9FKBAUT0Kbca2ruEb-iBI6tNhZNBHuWPa9fLjPFXK0sdltToZRiZAvyVe9CtXrLR9eS/w547-h338/Orosz_gyalogzaszloalj2_2.JPG)
The first soldier on the left looks like Lemmy Kilmister with this moustache, so I painted him the mole too. The Motörhead tribute band of Nicholas I. is one of the forgotten chapters of history.
(https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgs8tUq3_amPtOB2XyudGn30Y86Afm4-xl2WmeG6-zgN_OTOl9jPwx2IKfxTGIHWw76XEHdrpuiIb26_lYTGIexMzX3SQ0-vqInNI3QFtB4vUqIv0LcMPgILalFfGF6GMVG6J-FljB7KuQkr52HIOkGLknz5qLROzGCOPL54SPYwM9rVOZwFWZnZwdF/w315-h392/Orosz_gyalogzaszloalj2_3.JPG)
The general mustering his growing infantry brigade:
(https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0M5V34ciBfDs_TiBBqJ51cE5l_bOfHAZXXymLuYeQipO0iR4FTbDBxzk9O5mxPtAR1QozAjPu4GTuZEkt-5va45tYMLG68a1WkimO6PlTlYW7Kr9h_Uqht7g2UJFjBWfE5C-8KXQYkrH8ILZGJzt-ua0wjYDjGicSEy3FI_uBlXEzyXYXY8SJRZb1/w629-h438/Orosz_gyalogzaszloalj2_4.JPG)
I also made them the reference cards. There is this program called MSE originally intended for fan-made MtG and Yugioh cards, but since the templates are generic enough for anything, I use it to make reference cards for my wargame projects, it is really just a few clicks per card.
(https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEihBc8twaBQZb0Zave9_a7upOUh3GRBMzz1OMccBqPD1-ccivPemrdcpDDOjCxP3uIGtBprNQo2z0XN8SfhcbpPrXb94UZS1xWov617z9OaryOGovEkw8fvhbGzPZqsowMzUPwaeMUtd_FchEqiQzD2OPPKuUcjtFoBbFntLKOEWHnbN4DKvSDCgVL2/w545-h376/Orosz_gyalogzaszloalj2_5.JPG)
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Nice to see these - and their officer
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Nice to see these - and their officer
Thank you! I will need some more officers for them, I want to add commanders for the battalions. But for now, I will paint all the figures I have first.
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Fascinating project, incredibly brilliant work! 👏🏻
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A fascinating read. TY for the project.
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Thank you for the kind words, guys!
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Those Russian battalions look great. Well done!
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Very nice. I love the Lemmy figure. Which song was Nicholas I's favourite in 1848? "Bite the Bullet", "Live to Win", "Shoot You in the Back"? I reckon "Iron Fist".
Will you be doing any figures suffering from cholera, since that's what caused most of the Russian casualties?
The Hungary '48 scenario book I mentioned was published in September and now has its first (nice positive) review:
http://bloodybigbattles.blogspot.com/2022/11/vae-victis-likes-bbb-hungary-48.html
Plenty of opportunities in there for your Russians to see historical action!
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Very nice. I love the Lemmy figure. Which song was Nicholas I's favourite in 1848? "Bite the Bullet", "Live to Win", "Shoot You in the Back"? I reckon "Iron Fist".
My bet is on "Victory of Die", but his favourite rock song ever was surely "Trooper" from Iron Maiden. It is about his soldiers after all. My Russian artillerymen are wearing field caps though, if I know correctly, those tall hats in the movie were for Cossack artillery.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kLi6LjibkXk
Will you be doing any figures suffering from cholera, since that's what caused most of the Russian casualties?
Not in the forseeable future, the units badly hit by cholera will be represented by lowered Stamina.
In the Hungarian press, even in the popular one, there were several articles about this recently- during Covid, people were curious how the country dealt with the plague situation before :P The common opinion about the 1849 cholera outbreak (today and also back then) is that it was caused by the Russian intervention. Well, it surely did not help, and cholera always came from Galicia, but Hungary was struck several times by cholera during the 19th century, the 1849 outbreak was just one of them. Lajos Kossuth, the Hungarian president during the 1848 war, had his first public office as cholera quarantine enforcer during the 1831 outbreak: then there was even an uprising beaten down by the army as poor peasants were prohibited to travel to the summer works by the cholera qarantine and they really did not like it.
The Hungary '48 scenario book I mentioned was published in September
Oh, it surely was, I already have it on my bookshelf :) Seems really nice with all the historical background and detailed force lists! I just have to chew through the base rules before I try them :)
Those Russian battalions look great. Well done!
Thanks! there were 172 Russian infantry battalions sent into action during 1848-49, so I only need 170 more!
...I will stop at 9 for now though, when they are done, it will be time to add some more Hungarians. This time cavalry. The Hungarian hussars are the iconic soldier type for 1848, and it is also the easiest to add into a Hugarian army.
The Hussars of the Habsburg army were all recruited from Hungary, and they, of course, sided with the revolution (the only problem was that some of the regiments were stationed really far from Hungary, but many werent stopped even by that fact, they fought their way back home). They formed the backbone of the 1848 Hungarian cavalry. The Habsburg army Hussar uniform was basically the same as in the Napoleonic wars, they even used the same flintlock carbines. And there are plenty of Napoleonic Habsburg Hussar kits out there, these are Front Rank, but the Perrys even have a plastic kit. The 1840M hussar shako had a smaller plume, I will still have to add this, would have been easier before assemblling them but life is hard when you are stupid. +the shako badge was replaced with the Hungarian colours ofc, but that is only a matter of paint.
(https://i.ibb.co/BBNSGWj/Huszarok1-1.jpg)
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Thanks, Freddy - I hope you will get good value out of the scenario book.
Looking forward to seeing the hussars. Do you have a favourite regiment? Perhaps the Lehel Hussars aka ‘Lehull [Falling-down] Hussars’ or the Károlyi Hussars aka ‘Kár, hogy [What a pity] Hussars'? :D
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Looking forward to seeing the hussars. Do you have a favourite regiment?
The 12th Nádor hussar regiment, ofc. It was recruited from the Kunság region, my ancestors served in it. We even have a sword, a trumpet and a flag (a small tricolor, so not a unit banner) from those times as family relics. These first hussras will wear the black-blue-black uniform of the 12th.
Historians say that recruitment in the Kunság was like ,,Infantry, meh, I rather choose the firing squad...wait, you said, hussar? Where do I sign?"
Perhaps the Lehel Hussars aka ‘Lehull [Falling-down] Hussars’ or the Károlyi Hussars aka ‘Kár, hogy [What a pity] Hussars'? :D
Ah, those :) What I wrote above was about the regular hussar regiments, the ones numbered from 1-12. During the war Hungarian government quickly founded 6 more (13-18), those were the "honvéd" hussar regiments, demonstrating why training a cavalryman normally took years, earning a lot of funny nicknames with their riding skills :) War, ofc, taught them the lessons fast then. They will be a later addition, I will need to sculpt new heads for them: while the regulars wore the "Habsburg" shako I mentioned above, the honvéd hussars had one with the national insignia.
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The 12th Nádor hussar regiment, ofc. It was recruited from the Kunság region, my ancestors served in it. We even have a sword, a trumpet and a flag (a small tricolor, so not a unit banner) from those times as family relics.
Wow! :o
ofc indeed.
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[Hell March playing in the background]
Two new Russian battalions. The accelerating pace might be misleading, sometimes when I have time and place and mood, I make the painting steps on the whole bunch of figures, this way the fourth battalion, when I start working on it individually, is far closer to the finish than the first one was.
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This also means that now the red-red regiment is completed. I will make complete command for all battalions (so drums, banner and officer), but for now I want those figures/units I have from the Warlord box to make action-ready. (Warlord calculated with 3 27-man battalions, 1-1 officer and drummer but 2-2 banner bearer for each, and I used the officers as regiment commanders, so not everyone has everything.)
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Dense columns of Russians..perfect.
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I really like your work. very atmospheric and very interesting
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Wow. All this looks truly amazing and I love how you bring the period to life for yourself. I just wish I could sculpt like that. How did you actually go about learning it?
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Those dudes look great! Well done...
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Dense columns of Russians..perfect.
Yes, this way they give the 5 man wide marching column :)
I really like your work. very atmospheric and very interesting
Wow. All this looks truly amazing and I love how you bring the period to life for yourself. I just wish I could sculpt like that.
Those dudes look great! Well done...
Thank you, guys, there comments are really inspiring!
How did you actually go about learning it?
I am far from a great miniature sculptor, maybe an experienced one at best. I learned with the trial&error method, and lots of practicing :) There are lots of tutorials on the net, the one on massivevoodoo is among the better ones:
https://massivevoodoo.blogspot.com/2010/01/massive-voodoo-sculpting-tutorial.html
My advice for a beginner would be
1.) Take a miniature you like and try to copy it, at least for the basic shape. This way you will notice/understand the three important things: the pose, the body parts ratio and the wrinkling of the clothes.
2.) When sculpting a new pose, just try to stand like that. Or make someone just to show the pose. You do not need standing for a model for hours, just to see if the pose is natural/how exactly the body parts are aligned,
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I found on my SH figures were I've done extra poses I have body dollies, heads with helmets, backpacks and rifles to help with consistancy in size, so when I do my limited work its more like Victor Frankenstein adding arms and heads. This speeds up the work as doing a figure from scratch takes me along time and is average - not enough time to practice which is what I need.
I take my hat off to the 1848 sculpts.
Dave
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I found on my SH figures were I've done extra poses I have body dollies, heads with helmets, backpacks and rifles to help with consistancy in size, so when I do my limited work its more like Victor Frankenstein adding arms and heads. This speeds up the work as doing a figure from scratch takes me along time and is average - not enough time to practice which is what I need.
I take my hat off to the 1848 sculpts.
Dave
Thanks!
I really like that SH project!
For the sculpting, yes, I am also frankensteining what I can (swords and guns are enough to do once), but for that I need at least a base set of sculpts :) One cast of the banner bearer above will be converted to a National Guard model and casted again, and I almost never make casts with fixed heads, a head swap is the easiest way to introduce some diversity even into a monopose unit. So I always prepare some extra heads.
On the other hand, making figures from zero is somehow relaxing to me, so there will always be new dolly candidates.
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Thanks!
I really like that SH project!
For the sculpting, yes, I am also frankensteining what I can (swords and guns are enough to do once), but for that I need at least a base set of sculpts :) One cast of the banner bearer above will be converted to a National Guard model and casted again, and I almost never make casts with fixed heads, a head swap is the easiest way to introduce some diversity even into a monopose unit. So I always prepare some extra heads.
On the other hand, making figures from zero is somehow relaxing to me, so there will always be new dolly candidates.
I'm currently converting a 340mm long Napoleonic ship I picked up for a tenner at a bring and buy recently into a schleswig Holstein paddle steamer, I'll be 3d printing the paddlewheels and housing. I've found 3d printing very useful for doing a basic danish gunboat, Danish rocket carriage and various different wheel diameters have you been able to make use of a very adaptable technology.
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I'm currently converting a 340mm long Napoleonic ship I picked up for a tenner at a bring and buy recently into a schleswig Holstein paddle steamer, I'll be 3d printing the paddlewheels and housing. I've found 3d printing very useful for doing a basic danish gunboat, Danish rocket carriage and various different wheel diameters have you been able to make use of a very adaptable technology.
Looking forward to see them! 3d printing is a great technology for this hobby. For sculpting I do not find it appealing (not that there are no great 3d armies, but that I essentially work on a computer so I prefer a hobby where I do not have to), but for delicate machine parts with difficult shapes (like a wheel) it opens new possibilites.
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Late for the Christmas party, just in time for New Years', the intervention force of Tzar Nicholas I. is done.
Finished the red-white regiment:
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As you can see (and as I wrote above) there are not enough pickelhaube heads, I had to make one battalion with field caps.
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The box containing 81 infantrymen and 3 officers, technically I started the third, blue-green regiment too.
,,A small regiment, huh?"
,,Yes, Sir!"
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And the entire force together:
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For next, I will do some Hungarian Hussars, but the Russians will also need some cavalry. Also, the Austrian army is now pretty small compared to the other two. 2023 will be a busy year :)
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Very striking! :-*
They will look wonderful on the table top.
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Russians en masse, very nice.
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Thank you guys! To be honest, for a Napoleonic era army, they were kinda easy to paint: no embroidery, no backpacks, all the same pose.
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More great looking minis. Well done, lad!
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More great looking minis. Well done, lad!
Thank you! There is a guy here who offered some painted minis for sale. They will need their bases reworked, but at least this way I will quickly have some Austrian cavalry and artillery too.
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Betyár, this was the name of Hungarian outlaws in the 18-19th century. They are often seen as romantic, Robin Hood like figures, but in the reality most of them only caused suffering for the people. Of course, they did some good deeds too, usually to people offering them food and hiding places from the law. They lived outside the towns in the nature: plains, forests and swamps, from here they hit animal herds to take some cattle for sale, also often did highwaymen jobs too.
In 1848 some of them were offered pardon in return to join the revolutionary army, and they formed an irregular unit. After they sacked and massacred a Serbian village, their unit was disbanded. After 1849 a lot of former honvéds became betyárs themselves, choosing the outlaw life over the conscription into the Habsburg army (there were a lot of army deserters among their ranks before 1848 too, army service being 10-20 years back then). The era of betyárs ended forever after the weak county based law enforcement was replaced by the Royal Hungarian Gendarmerie in the 1880s.
I wanted him to do something betyár-y, so he is stealing a little pig. His weapon is a pistol, in reality they often carried 2 or more. The other one is the "fokos", a small axe with a long handle being the common weapon of 18-19th century Hungarian civilians (basically the Colt Peacemaker of old Hungary).
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Nice character ...and background too.
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Nice character ...and background too.
Thanks! I am still thinking about how to incorporate them into the games. The betyárs were mostly riders, "getting" a good horse being their first task if they wanted to successfully run from the law. So I will need a cavalry unit for them- maybe also a small infantry one, or model some on foot, but add a guy who is holding the horses? I am still thinking.
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Amazing project!
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Thanks! I am still thinking about how to incorporate them into the games. The betyárs were mostly riders, "getting" a good horse being their first task if they wanted to successfully run from the law. So I will need a cavalry unit for them- maybe also a small infantry one, or model some on foot, but add a guy who is holding the horses? I am still thinking.
Looters perhaps....with geese and hens? Or a horse holder and a sniper? These chaps are crying out to be a little vignette.
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Very interesting job. I had never heard of Betyár before.
I will erase the shapes of your project with great interest.
Thank you very much
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Thanks, guys! Betyárs themselves might be even worth a skirmish game on their own.... oh no, too many projects already. There was a movie about them (The Wind Blows Under Your Feet, 1976), it plays in the 1830s on the Hungarian plains, basically a western movie. I did not find a proper teaser, maybe this one is worth to click through for the aesthetics. (Music might be too loud)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_DUmColGF4
I sometimes go to motorbike tours on the old highway where the betyárs used to rob people (in the late 19th century the new highway was built a few kms from there, so the old one is still a mud road as it was centuries ago), also there is the little hill for the gallows where they were executed and buried.
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It's very Western like. :)
Looks good...or at least as good ans any western of the same period !
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A battle with the new toy soldiers- Bolt action, but distances halved. The Russians started with some good command rolls, but their concentrated attack through the bottleneck in the middle failed to crush the Hungarian line in one strike. The luck now turned towards the Hungarians and General Damjanich managed to outflank the Russians on the right flank while the left flank held just enough to buy some time for the centre. The revolution was saved- for now...
Now both sides are thinking about how to maneuver NOT to render the artillery unisable with the first step, also how to get some cavalry to protect the flanks/outflank the enemy.
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Civilians are just wondering wtf is going on.
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Hungarian Honvéd drummer. The assembly is just a mockup, and he will also get an infantry sword (the same model as for the artillerymen)
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Nice work.
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Nice work.
Thanks! I will need an officer figure too, then I will be able to make proper command for the Honvéd battalions.
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Been a long time since the last update- I was working, thing is that painting these Hussars took forever, 10 of them has more details than the 80 Russian infantry from before.
As I already wrote, they are the 12th Nádor Hussar regiment who were recruited from the Kunság region of Hungary, so my ancestors served with them. (The regiment owner Nádor was not a name but a title, sorta second-in-command after the king of Hungary. The Kuns/Kumans, people of the Kunság were adoring him because being only judgeable by the Nádor was one of their -our...- privileges above the other parts of the country.). The figures themselves are First Front Rank Napoleonic Hussars, Napoleonic Austrian Hussars are perfect for 1848, only the shako plume needs to be modified.
As the Hussars of the Habsburg army were all recruited from Hungary (a long Habsburg tradition up until 1918, dragoons and heavy cavalry were Germans, lancers Slavs), the standing Hussar regiments of the Empire all sided with the revolution. Unlike most ex-Habsburg soldiers they proudly kept the yellow-black embroidery as a sign of their regimental history. They changed their shako badge of course, and I also painted the trumpet embroidery and the banner similar to the Honvéd hussar regiments. Hussars rarely carried the banner into the battle though.
A Hussar regiment had 4 sections, with 2-2 companies each (154 men/company), so 5-men sections will be good base units to match my 10 men infantry battalions. I already have half the 12th regiment :)
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Lovely....
Fromt rank hussars ....with added plume??
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Lovely....
Fromt rank hussars ....with added plume??
Thank you!
Yes, they are from Front Rank, I had to remove the bigger, napoleonic style plume and add a smaller one, otherwise Napoleonic era Habsburg hussars are ok for 1848 Hussars, the uniform was the same and they kept the insignia too save the Hungarian shako badge. They even kept the name badge of the king/emperor V. Ferdinand as he was seen as the rightful king (up to May 1849) despite the Habsburgs switched him to Franz Joseph in late 1848. The carbine was a little weird, it also was the same model (save the modification for percussion), but Front Rank gives a different type. It is almost entirely hidden, so I did not bother that.
(This applies the 1-12 ex-imperial regiments, the newly founded 4 Honvéd hussar regiment had a little bit different uniform).
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Absolutely beautiful.
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Absolutely beautiful.
Thank you! Luckily, I put my hands on some painted Austrian heavy cavalry (needs some small updates though), so I will need to get some Russian cavalry models soon.
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Honvéd officer sculpt. With the drummer and the standard bearer shown earlier, now I am able to make proper commands for my Hungarian battalions. ...will be able, when this one comes back from the resin casting.
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He's very nice.
Reminds me of Somogi's illustrations
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He's very nice.
Reminds me of Somogi's illustrations
Thanks! Yes, he is a great inspiration to me, drawing a little bit in ,,heroic scale" :)
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At this point the weakest army was the Austrian one, but now the Emperor got some reinforcements too.
These figures were not painted by me, they were made by Gyula Homoki, who is a professional Hungarian modeller- he is in the wargame scene too, but his job is actually modeling, you can see his dioramas in many Hungarian musems, they are beautiful. He decided to sell some parts of his 1848 collection, it was not cheap, but I put my hands on his Austrians: some cavalry and a cannon.
The dreaded heavy cavalry was the elite of the elite in the Austrian army, and they were true to their reputation in Hungary too. In the model collection there were 16 of them, based in pairs, I had to do some cutting to fit them into my 5 man cavalry battalions- now I have a complete heavy cavalry regiment, apart from one battalion being from an other regiment :P Beyond the rebasing and the movement trays all I did was some repair in the painting, Gyulas painting stlye is a bit different from mine, but I did not want to alter his work, just corrected the damaged parts (transport, mostly). One guy had his sword broken, so things like that.
I also got an artillery piece and a new Austrian general.
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They're nice. Remind me of Front Rank, but with different faces. Nice addition to your collection.
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They're nice. Remind me of Front Rank, but with different faces. Nice addition to your collection.
Yes, if I remember correctly, they are Front Rank and Foundry conversions maybe.
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An Austrian commander from Steve Barber.
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