Prussian Artillery Limbers

I've been working on quite a few artillery limbers, lately - for Prussians, Wurttemberg and British. Featuring on this post are my first 3 limbers for the Prussian army. As there are no such kits dedicated to Prussians in plastic 1/72, I had to resort to some conversions, using HaT Austrian limbers conducted by Strelets Prussian Dragoons painted as train drivers.

I like to have 1 limber for each of my artillery batteries - and usually, 6 or 7 batteries per major army -so I'll have to produce some more of these at some point. 

More Prussian Landwehr

I finished another couple battalions of landwehr to reinforce my Prussian brigades. These ones here were painted in orange-red and white facings, marking them as East Prussian and Pomeranian units, respectively. 

As usual for most of my Prussian forces, these models are HaT Industries, some of their most recent releases of few years ago, overall some really nice models.

First off, the East Prussians:

Here's the unit in firing line:

For the Pomeranians, I also did a few bases of skirmishers to use in mixed formations:

Now I'm off to paint some artillery for the Wurttembergers, as well as some limbers to the Prussians and to my British army, the latter with models printed from STL files of a Kickstarter I recently participated in - awesome sculpts! 

Prussian Garde du Corps

 Here is my second unit of Prussian Cuirassiers, this time the 3rd Regiment - The Garde du Corps. Again, this unit was done using HaT Russian Dragoons horsemen on HaT Russian Cuirassiers mounts.

Prussian Silesian Cuirassiers

Took a pause from Wurttembergers and recently finished my first couple regiments of Prussian Cuirassiers - some of my favorite uniforms of the napoleonic period! I think their white collets with no cuirass gives them a striking and unique visual, so choosing to go with the collets and not their campaign blue litewkas was a no brainer.

The problem was actually coming up with adequate models for this prussian cavalry, as there are no plastic kits in 1/72 for late Prussian Cuirassiers. Waterloo 1815 has a set of metal cuirassiers, but they were not a good solution for me. For one, they're metal, and therefore considerably more expensive than plastics. Secondly, they come 6 in a set, with 3 of the horsemen being command models - and officer, a trumpeter, and a color bearer. Thus, to come up with multiple units of my 18-model cavalry regiments, I'd need to buy a lot of sets, and end up with a large number of the spare command models, for which I'd have no use whatsoever. Lastly, the models from that set are not great enough sculpts as to tempt me to put some good money on them.

Thus, I looked for a solution with plastic kits, and it involved using HaT Russian Dragoons riders on HaT Russian Cuirassiers horses. The russian dragoon helmets from the HaT kit are sculpted with their early, bushy crests, which is perfect as it gives me enough material to work with, so I was able to trim them into the shape of prussian crests. The other conversion I did was to make their breeches go over their gaiters, which was pretty straighforward, since the detail delimitating their breeches, right under their knees, was pretty shallow and easy to scrap. 

All in all, I think the end result turned out to be a very convincing Prussian Cuirassier Regiment, and because I like these heavies so much, I plan on doing 4 regiments in total. 

Prussian Light Infantry - Silesian Fusiliers

 More Silesians painted, this time a battalion of fusiliers, with a number of skirmish bases, as their role requires.

The battalion in attack column:

Some close ups of the skirmish bases:

Prussian Line Infantry - 1st Silesian

Continuing with my work on the prussian army, I recently finished more units for their infantry. Here we have the 10th regiment of infantry, or the 1st Silesian.

The unit in attack column formation:

Prussian Foot Artillery

 

Here are 4 batteries of Prussian Foot Artillery I just finished. Those are Hat Industries models - one of their older kits, not particularly inspiring sculpts, but they look good with a proper paint job and a nice basing, I think.

The observant eyes will notice that I gave them distinct sholder strap colors, so to distinguish them by their Brigade (white for the 1st Artillery Brigade, scarlet for the 2nd, yellow for the 3rd), thus making them pre-1814 regulation. 

Now the challenge will be coming up with horse artillery for the prussians, as there are not options in 1/72 I know of. I might have to do some converting on aditional kits of those foot artillery models.