SYW Prussian Light Troops

A nice selection to round out my Seven Years War Prussian Army, the figures are all 3D printed and are slightly enlarged from my normal 20mm so that they match the Revell figures that I've used for the rest of the army.

Jaegers

Jaegers from Le Noble Freikorps

Croats from Kleist's Freikops

Russian Napoleonic Artillery

Another distraction, since I decided t keep these Napoleonic Russian Gunners (by Zvezda) I decided to reabse them

I now have the STL files to be anle to replace the old Airfix conversion guns and I'll print them off nexr summer

Lots more Bavarians and Wurttembergers

A slight distracion from my objectives for the month, but not from my overall aims, on returning the Bavarians and Wurttembery infantry to their boxes I realised I had not yet rebased their skirmishers and cavalry so here they are starting with the cavalry

Wurtembergers

Bavarians

Then the skirmishers

Bavarians to the left and behind and Wurtembergs to the right.

A pair of Schwimmwagens

When looking at some Rapid Fire orbats I found I only had one Schwimmwagen but I needed two. But instead of directly 3D printing one I found a crewed Kubelwagen and extracted the crew from it and fitted them into it first. I then decided I might as well print the needed pair rather than match them to my original.

Unfortunately after a discussion with Alan McCoubrey I discovered that Schwimmwagens had only three crew whether or not they were the three or four seat version and the remaining space was taken up by their equipment.

Napoleonic Bavarian and Wurttemberg Line Infantry

Although these two brigades started off being rebased and upgraded seperately, gradually the two merged to be completed together. The Wurttembergers are all Springwood Bavarian figures, which does mean the helmet is not quite right, but it did mean I could use some 3D printed Bavarian command figures rather than the correct ones that might have looked out of place.

8th and 9th Wurttemberg Line Infantry Regiments (2 battalions each)

3rd and 4th Bavarian Line Infantry Regiments (2 battalions each)

Merry Christmas to all my Blog followers

Recon 2024 - last show of the year

Quite an exciting journey across the pennines and back to Pudsey, Leeds for the Recon show due to Storm Darragh. It's quite a friendly low key show with a good selection of traders. There was very little eye candy, the only eye catcher, which I've seen before, was Yarkshire Gamers battle of of Mentana 1867.

I was involved in the Lance & Longbow Society what-if game set in the Hundred Years war, the War of Saint Sardos 1322-1323.

If I ignore the weather it was a great day out, thanks to Steve, David, Andy and Si.

Napoleonic Russian limbers and crews

Back in the summer I 3D printed some Russian limbers to replace my very old crude Airfix conversions, but then I discovered some files with replacement limber riders that I acquired in a late summer sale and then printed in my final 3D print run for the year. So I have drawn them together with my old Airfix RHA horses to produce my new replacements.

Foot Artillery on the old RHA horses

Horse Artillery on the Zvezda limber

A review of the Russian artillery reveals that I have 3 guns/crews too many and that I should replace all my old Hinton Hunt gunners (4 crews) and replace them with a single crew from my spare Zvezda figures to match the rest of the Foot Artillery Gunners. Obviously I still need to upgrade the gunner basing.

The Horse Artillery Gunners will be upgraded late next year when I get chance to print some bespoke versions acquire in a Black Friday sale.