Thursday, 23 August 2012

Perry French artillery

 Not my greatest work to be honest
 And I really made a meal of the Guard horse
 Why are the wheels on Perry guns so hard to get right?
 The line horse artillery are ok
 Prefer more crew as well
 Four jsut looks wrong to me
 I like the guy aiming though
And I think I did a good job on the base of the Guard foot artillery.
 
Hope you like them.

Friday, 17 August 2012

Napoleonic Prussians

 My first completed army! 1813-15 Prussians
 These are the grenadiers - Perry fusiliers but you cant tell the difference
 I like these a lot
 Skirmishers bases - 2 triangles so can join the line as well

 Flag by GMB of course
 Below my heavy cavalry brigade commanders
 ON the left Perry, right Foundry
 Perry foot and horse artillery limbers
 Perry howitzer with Foundry crew

 Foundry Landwehr cavalry
 I personally think the Foundry Prussians are fantastic

 Some lovely facial details
 I hate doing lance penants

 Foundry heavy brigade - dragoons and cuirassiers
 horse artillery with captured French guns

 Foundry hussars, Perry command and Silesian Uhlans

 Foundry and Calpe reservists - one battalion painted as fusiliers
 Mounted officers for the reservists

 Foundry line infantry ( 2 musketeers and 1 fusiliers)

 Calpe and Foundry landwehr - 2 battalions of each
 Calpe volunteer Jaeger
 Blucher and staff - foundry
Hope you like the pictures. I'd had enough of painting these and the last gun with the limbers took me ages!  Full OOB is:

Grenadiers 1 x 36
Line 3 x 36
+ skirmishers
12 Jaeger

Reservists - 3 x 36

Landwehr - 4 x 36
12 volunteer jaeger

Foot artillery
1 limber, 2 x 12lb, 1 x howitzer

Cavalry

18 x cuirassiers
16 x dragoons
12 x hussars
12 x Uhlans
16 x Landwehr

Horse artillery
1 limber, 2 x 8lb, 1 x howitzer

Command
Blucher
Artillery
Brigade command ( Calpe )
Cavalry - Von Ziethen
Heavy cavalry
Light cavalry

To paraphrase ugh Cornwell and the Stranglers.."No more Prussians anymore..........."

Monday, 9 July 2012

Paul Hicks designed Duchy of Warsaw foot artillery

 The foot artillery have arrived!
 I think Paul has done a great job again
 I wont have any painted for a few weeks so these are jsut the bared metal
 They havent even been cleaned - this is how they came from the casters
 Loads of character yet again
 The gun here is a French 8lb
 This would I think be more correct for late 1812 to 1814
 From 1809 - Borodino etc Austrian 6lb might be more apt, but the French guns would be correct as well
 I am able to supply either French 8lb or Austrian 6lb
 Choice of crews either loading or firing
Please contact me for details - email is in contact details.