Tuesday, September 26, 2017

Austrian Grenzer - Szluin Regiment

My austrians have been waiting quite some time for reinforcements, I have negleted them entirely this year, being focused on getting the russians in shape, so I figured I needed to give them some love, and added a couple more units of Grenz to the army.

First off, a unit of orange facings, the Szluin regiment. These are Hat Industries models, they don't come with a standard bearer, but having developed a taste for adding flags to my units, I decided to go ahead and spread colors throughout my armies, so I converted a soldier loading his musket into a standard bearer. I'm pretty happy with the result.

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What I did was to cut some elements of his musket to smooth up the surface into a pole, and extended it by gluing a lance (from my celts) to the top. The pole didn't turn up very smooth, but the tricolor scheme of the austrian flag poles help hide the irregular surface pretty effetively.

I have done the same conversion with my previous regiment of grenz, as well as the 2 regiments of Hngarians I have, so now I have 5 more units with flags on the austrian army. In time, I'll add colors to them all!

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The unit in attack column:

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I also painted 6 bases of skirmishers for them, which represent a small unit in open order.

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Friday, September 15, 2017

Portuguese Foot Artillery

Already having plenty of foot artillery for the british, I decided to paint my remaining kit of Revell British Foot Artillery as a portuguese artillery battery, instead, since their uniforms are so similar to that of their allies, and I wanted to expand my portuguese forces a bit.

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Monday, September 11, 2017

British Horse Artillery

Here is my second battery of horse artillery for the british. I painted these guys together with the foot artillery, so to make the most of my assembly line painting process.

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Interestingly, Italeri's British Horse artillery don't come with limbers, those are instead found on Revell Foot Artillery set. So, having recently painted a couple of those, here I have a couple additional limbers to go along with my horse artillery.

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Monday, September 4, 2017

British Foot Artillery

I finished 2 more batteries of foot artillery for my Peninsular british. These are the Revell models, and come with a limber each, which I'll be using with the horse artillery batteries (which will feature on a future post).

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