Hearts of Oak (well MDF...)

[Ithoriel]

[FierceKitty]

Bambo - at a cinema near you.

[pierre the shy]

"........ Good Luck......."

Liam Neeson in Taken

[Techno]

Bambo - at a cinema near you.

Your coat, Sir. 

Cheers - Phil

[Last Hussar]

Anyway, back on topic...

1 regiment of hussars and 5 of German line now based.

Waiting on the bases from Leon. (Who am I kidding - I only have one unbased unit, the order will arrive before any more units get done... )

10th Hussars
IMG-20200321-WA0003 by Last Hussar, on Flickr

Line
IMG-20200324-WA0000 by Last Hussar, on Flickr

20200324_212317 by Last Hussar, on Flickr

[Last Hussar]

Yes, I know Austrian units only carried 1 Standard per battalion in 1809, but there are a number of important caveats that allow me to put 2 per unit.

1) I like flags
2) These are primarily for Field of Glory, so the unit represents a Regiment or Brigade, thus multiple battalions. (I suppose given this I could add a 2nd Ordinarfahne)
3) Austrian-German units are White with white, white and white. Flags give some colour.
4) Flags are likable.
5) 96 man units in 1:200 - I'm not doing some 12 man 'so called battalion' - see #3
6) These can/will also be used for Black Powder. If we do the cm scale, then the units will be just 3 stands, this way I get a 1st (with Liebfahne) and 2nd (with Ordinarfahne) battalion
7) Did I mention I like a unit with a flag?

Tomorrow/shortly I will undercoat some Hungarians.

[Last Hussar]

Post Script.
Technically the Leibfahne are the 1804 pattern, not the 1806. But the back is prettier - see the flags at the bottom of this:

http://www.warflag.com/napflags/flaghtml/austria.htm

[paulr]

 

Points 1, 4 & 7 supported by 6 carry the argument

[Orcs]

Points 1, 4 & 7 supported by 6 carry the argument

Yes he is just a bloody vexillophile

[Last Hussar]

No, I just like wargames armies with flags.

[Last Hussar]

1st unit of Hungarians completed Sunday afternoon. Was trying to see if I could do a unit in a day (Saturday to be precise) but couldn't be bothered to concentrate that long. Its perfectly possible, only takes a few hours, but I couldn't be bothered.

Also did the CinC and 3 sub commands Sunday night.

Pics to follow tomorrow (well, later today to be precise)

[hammurabi70]

The mdf figures are not for me, but I do so like the look. Very old school, and simple - I would use them in a landscape of children's wooden building bricks, lollipop trees and rectangular hills, all the time thinking of H G Wells and Little Wars

Yes; I was very impressed in seeing them at CAVALIER a couple of years ago and nearly bought some but then I thought they were a bit 'wooden' and that I would prefer 'proper' 6mm from Baccus or H&R.  I will be interested to see how matters proceed when the battlefield is reached.

[toxicpixie]

I've a load for Nappies and ACW - tbh at arms length/game's table you can't tell the difference for most!

Skirmisher types are a bit more awkward, so I've salted a fair number of Adler across the bases

[Last Hussar]

Generals
IMG-20200330-WA0001 by Last Hussar, on Flickr

Hungarians

1585780592315747111558480509273 by Last Hussar, on Flickr
(With previously posted Hussars)

Another unit, with "attached officer" stand.
IMG-20200401-WA0003 by Last Hussar, on Flickr

In Fields of Glory you can replace a stand with an attached officer. It represents a particularly good commander at regimental level, or if there are more senior officers than normal leading. I'm converting an historical list. Where a brigade equals 1 unit I'm not adding, but where the regiments that make up the bde are each big enough to be a unit, I'm putting the Bde commander in, as FoG has commanders at Corps and Divisional level.

Unlike the French, where all the uniforms are the same, I have to do some Hungarian and some German for the surrounding infantry.

[Techno]

Looking good ! 

Cheers - Phil

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

Very nice

[toxicpixie]

Spiffy!

I approve

[paulr]

Are you going to paint the edges of the bases green?

[Last Hussar]

Need to see what I did with the French

[Last Hussar]

Now for something completely a little different

The Carneville Legion. There were 200 infantry and 100 Hussars in Reinhard's brigade just before Aspern-Essling.  I am putting them into the IR#33 Regiment ( the Hungarians on the right) for FoG - this turns it from 1 'Large' (6 bases) unit into 2 'small' (each 4 bases) units - the one with the hussars will count as having a cavalry attachment, which reduces the effectiveness of enemy skirmish fire.

15860234857255688216439529366645 by Last Hussar, on Flickr

However, many of them never made it to the actual battle, having been ambushed the night before by a French raid.