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Offline Dave pen

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Re: Hungarian Revolutionary War of 1848- a 28mm project
« Reply #30 on: October 15, 2022, 09:36:28 AM »
The first Russian battalion.


I'm impressed with your painting WOW :D

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Re: Hungarian Revolutionary War of 1848- a 28mm project
« Reply #31 on: October 15, 2022, 10:20:18 AM »
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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Re: Hungarian Revolutionary War of 1848- a 28mm project
« Reply #32 on: October 26, 2022, 07:50:35 PM »
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).




Offline Emir of Askaristan

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Re: Hungarian Revolutionary War of 1848- a 28mm project
« Reply #33 on: October 26, 2022, 08:12:55 PM »
Wonderful detail, down to the moustache bristles!

Offline Khmorg

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Re: Hungarian Revolutionary War of 1848- a 28mm project
« Reply #34 on: October 27, 2022, 04:57:20 PM »
Very interesting! I love that attention to detail!! Thank you!

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Re: Hungarian Revolutionary War of 1848- a 28mm project
« Reply #35 on: October 27, 2022, 08:28:42 PM »
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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!
Thank you, guys! While painting the Russians, now I am preparing a Hungarian command "set" too.

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Re: Hungarian Revolutionary War of 1848- a 28mm project
« Reply #36 on: November 14, 2022, 08:04:51 PM »
Second Russian battalion.



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.


The general mustering his growing infantry brigade:


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.



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Re: Hungarian Revolutionary War of 1848- a 28mm project
« Reply #37 on: November 16, 2022, 11:18:33 AM »
Nice to see these - and their officer

Offline Freddy

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Re: Hungarian Revolutionary War of 1848- a 28mm project
« Reply #38 on: November 16, 2022, 08:36:01 PM »
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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Re: Hungarian Revolutionary War of 1848- a 28mm project
« Reply #39 on: November 17, 2022, 07:28:44 AM »
Fascinating project, incredibly brilliant work! 👏🏻
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Offline LouieN

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Re: Hungarian Revolutionary War of 1848- a 28mm project
« Reply #40 on: November 17, 2022, 05:59:23 PM »
A fascinating read.  TY for the project. 

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Re: Hungarian Revolutionary War of 1848- a 28mm project
« Reply #41 on: November 17, 2022, 09:16:33 PM »
Thank you for the kind words, guys!

Offline CapnJim

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Re: Hungarian Revolutionary War of 1848- a 28mm project
« Reply #42 on: November 19, 2022, 05:32:24 PM »
Those Russian battalions look great.  Well done!
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Offline ChrisBBB

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Re: Hungarian Revolutionary War of 1848- a 28mm project
« Reply #43 on: November 20, 2022, 09:10:18 AM »
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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Re: Hungarian Revolutionary War of 1848- a 28mm project
« Reply #44 on: November 20, 2022, 05:15:44 PM »
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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
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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.
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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 :)
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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.
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