Napoleonic Prussian Artillery

As part of the upgrade of my Prussian army I have replaced the old artillery figures converted from Airfix French artillery with the HaT figures. In this case from the Prussian artillery brigade (white shoulder straps) and the Silesian artillery brigade (yellow).

I still need to do further work to provide more guns and limbers for these units, the guns in the picture are a mix of my old Airfix conversions for the foot artillery and the Revell SYW artillery guns for the horse artillery

Will

Napoleonic Prussian Pommeranian Grenadiers

As part of upgrading my Prussian army, here is the first Springwood Prussian unit I have painted from scratch for over 30 years. I've enough of the basic infantry types, so out of respect I painted my remaining first version Springwood figures as grenadiers and given Frederick the Great's high regard for the Pommeranians this was the unit selected. The flag is the retirefahne for the I/Pomm IR Nr.2 from Napflags.


Will

WSS Austrian Dragoons

Another couple of regiments completed for my War of Spanish Succession Imperial army, This time the dragoon regiments Prinz Eugen and Bayreuth.
The figures used were the Strelets Lieb-Drabants Of Charles XII

Prinze Eugen has red coats and Bayreuth light blue, the standards are what I had that looked suitable.

Will

Plastic figure trading

A new Yahoo group has been set up to trade plastic figures. At last the chance to reduce the mountain of unpainted figures by swaping them for ones I need more.

So far, I'm in the midst of organising several trades and it's suprising what others want, I'm sure they are thinking the same.

To date I've only put items where I have fairly large quantities available (one box or more). Once I've finished these I'll probably start offering smaller quantities.

The group can be found at link

Latest purchases arrive from Harfields

Always exciting when the postman delivers you "long" awaited figures. So what have I got this time?

1 x Zvesda Russian infantry of Peter the Great - figures needed to complete my next 3 Austrian regiments
1 x Pegasus German army trucks - just an impulse purchase, I always seem to be short of trucks.
2 x Strelets Norman knights - to boost the cavalry strength of my Norman Army
1 x Strelets Breton knights - ditto
1 x HaT Prussian artillery - to complete the artillery in my Napoleonic Prussian army
1 x Revell US Marines WW2 - again an impulse purchase at £1.00 I thought I might get around to island hopping games sometime, especially having seen the Frontline LVT2s
2 x HaT Macedonian elephants - to allow my Macedonians to become Successor armies. I was also lucky as the two boxes both contained 3 elephants each.

My only regret was missing out on a 2nd hand pack of SYW Prussian Hussars

Will

Problems on the Danube 1690

I've posted the first battle report over on my Frundsberg blog

Will

WSS Austrian Cavalry

Jury service is over so it's back to the painting. I managed to do a bit over the last two weeks as I wasn't always required. So here's the latest units, three Austrian cuirassier units for the WSS. They are all made using the Strelets GNW Swedish Rieiters

For the sharp eyed observer the coats have turnbacks when there should be none

Included is a unit from my imaginary country the Frundsberg Frei Stadt acting on imperial service, their yellow coats are not that dissimilar from the buff coats worn my the Austrians


These units may also be my submission into The Guild painting competition

Will