We're continuing to slowly expand our Napoleonic ranges and we've now got the Prussians ready to take to the field. And there's even a Blucher figure to rally them on!
Napoleonics
1813-1815 Prussian - http://www.pendraken.co.uk/Napoleonic-c14/ (http://www.pendraken.co.uk/Napoleonic-c14/)
NPR1 Line/fusiliers, march attack
NPR2 Line/fusiliers, firing
NPR3 Line command
NPR4 Line mounted officer (5) £1.65
NPR5 Guard infantry, march attack, inc. command
NPR6 Guard mounted officer (5) £1.65
NPR7 Landwehr, inc. command
NPR8 Dragoons
NPR9 Hussars
NPR10 Uhlans
NPR11 Landwehr cavalry
NPR12 6pdr guns with line crew (3)
NPR13 6pdr guns with horse crew (3)
NPR14 7pdr Howitzer guns, with line crew (3)
NPR15 7pdr Howitzer guns, with horse crew (3)
NPR16 Mounted General + ADC (2) £0.80
NPR17 General Blucher (1) £0.70
(Packs contents as shown, priced at £4.95 each unless shown otherwise)
Army Pack - Contains 3 x NPR1. 1 x NPR3, 5, 8, 12. £31.00
And some pics to tempt:
NPR3 - Line command:
(http://www.pendraken.co.uk/ProductImages/NPR3.JPG)
NPR5 - Guard infantry:
(http://www.pendraken.co.uk/ProductImages/NPR5.JPG)
NPR7 - Landwehr:
(http://www.pendraken.co.uk/ProductImages/NPR7.JPG)
NPR8 - Dragoons:
(http://www.pendraken.co.uk/ProductImages/NPR8.JPG)
NPR10 - Uhlans:
(http://www.pendraken.co.uk/ProductImages/NPR10.JPG)
NPR12 - 6pdr guns with line crew:
(http://www.pendraken.co.uk/ProductImages/NPR12.JPG)
NPR16 - General & ADC:
(http://www.pendraken.co.uk/ProductImages/NPR16.JPG)
NPR17 - General Blucher:
(http://www.pendraken.co.uk/ProductImages/NPR17.JPG)
We hope you like them!
8)
Yes, I like!
nice :) 8)
when are the Brunswickers due
Quote from: old smokie on 17 July 2016, 10:51:16 PM
nice :) 8)
when are the Brunswickers due
Probably end of August or into September I'd think at the moment. We've got a load of Warband moulds needing to be done first, plus I want to get some Nap French additions released as well.
Excellent Leon, very nice figures and I still need 2 Prussian corps and the Guards!
Great stuff and I love the Landwehr :-*
:)
Oh bother! This looks expensive!
Quote from: Leon on 17 July 2016, 10:58:44 PM
Probably end of August or into September I'd think at the moment. We've got a load of Warband moulds needing to be done first, plus I want to get some Nap French additions released as well.
..and...
I dunno.....Gimme a clue.
Cheers - Phil
I think FK wants more ancients and chaps from the Americas - have a heart!
Those 1815 Prussians are looking mighty useful for some multi-purpose use in 1866, and elsewhere I imagine. What do you think, Konstantinos?
Those are lovely - especially like the Landwehr...
Quote from: Techno on 18 July 2016, 08:27:55 AM
I dunno.....Gimme a clue.
Cheers - Phil
The mission bells told me
That I shouldn't stay
South of the border....
There really is no response to that that I can post on this forum in all good conscience.
Quote from: FierceKitty on 18 July 2016, 11:41:33 AM
The mission bells told me
That I shouldn't stay
South of the border....
Welcome to The Hotel California?
I'm supposed to be making Californians, now ?
What uniform do they wear then ?
I wish Leon would tell me these things. =)
Cheers - (Permanently) Confused of Wales
Please stop making new models.
Quote from: Techno on 18 July 2016, 03:32:48 PM
I'm supposed to be making Californians, now ?
What uniform do they wear then ?
I wish Leon would tell me these things. =)
Cheers - (Permanently) Confused of Wales
It only lasted a few days, so irregular uniforms Phil.
Republic of California
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_Republic
Quote from: Dave Fielder on 18 July 2016, 07:39:57 PM
Please stop making new models.
Is that the sound of Dave's wallet crying ! :'( :'(
Ummmm ... I'm probably going to expose my massive ignorance now, but is the gun a little bit small? ... or is it far away?
The gun looks to be just about waist height. The Osprey illustration here of a Prussian 6pdr shows the wheels to be closer to shoulder height.
(http://www.napolun.com/mirror/napoleonistyka.atspace.com/img/damaged_prussian_gun.jpg)
(Now waiting to be schooled on Prussian artillery.)
Quote from: fsn on 18 July 2016, 08:25:22 PM
Ummmm ... I'm probably going to expose my massive ignorance now, but is the gun a little bit small? ... or is it far away?
The gun looks to be just about waist height. The Osprey illustration here of a Prussian 6pdr shows the wheels to be closer to shoulder height.
Bear in mind the figures are on bases and the gun is not. Jack it up to the same ground level and it does indeed reach to just below shoulder height.
Lovely little chaps, Landwehr are the stand out figures...but I have just one little niggle (apart from armoured Mongol horses that is :)). Prussian Line musketeers and fusiliers are listed as being interchangeable but they are not because the musketeers wore the cartridge box on a crossbelt at the right-rear whereas the fusiliers wore theirs on a waistbelt at the front. Not much I know but noticeable if you can see the front of the little chap.
MickS
There's something very strange about wanting to do horse and musket era Prussians and then opting for the Napoleonic period!
Quote from: mad lemmey on 18 July 2016, 03:00:02 PM
Welcome to The Hotel California?
Doesn't scan or rhyme!
Quote from: Ithoriel on 18 July 2016, 08:30:48 PM
Bear in mind the figures are on bases and the gun is not. Jack it up to the same ground level and it does indeed reach to just below shoulder height.
I knew that. :-[ Just testing. Hah! Of course. On a base. Yes. Oooh look! Uhlans!
I think a lot of folk get caught out by that from time to time. ;)
Cheers - Phil
Also the 10mm picture (damn Pendraken for showing them) is a 6pdr whilst diagram looks more like a 12pdr.
Quote from: Techno on 18 July 2016, 03:32:48 PM
I'm supposed to be making Californians, now ?
What uniform do they wear then ?
This ?
(http://67.media.tumblr.com/a6357ae74b08f968ab822111a6492433/tumblr_nkjwvtVpzH1uoe9iuo1_400.gif)
:D
Hang on.
Where are the roller blades ? ;)
Cheers - Phil.
Fsn
Based on the text for the illustration, wheel sizes were standardised to facilitate changes.
Subedai
As far as I know the fusilier description you give is the pre 1808 uniform, when there were separate battalions. The 1813 fusiliers are the 3rd battalion of line regiments with the only distinction being black leatherwork as opposed to white for the 1st and 2nd battalions
The Osprey illustration did say a 6pdr.
Taking off the base then the gun would be about shoulder height.
I just wonderered if someone was going to say "Ah! It's a 1812 BangenBustenvonKnockenOffer from the Lippe Armoury which had small wheels because the trees around Lippe weren't very big around" or something similar. Obviously I'm better informed that I thought, but less observant.
Wonder from how high they had to drop those girls to get them that stuck in the sand.
Quote from: fsn on 19 July 2016, 12:33:02 PM
Wonder from how high they had to drop those girls to get them that stuck in the sand.
(https://cdn.meme.am/instances/500x/55941209.jpg)
YEAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
Quote from: fsn on 19 July 2016, 12:33:02 PM
Wonder from how high they had to drop those girls to get them that stuck in the sand.
California? Just tell them it's a whole new far-out experience to bury their own heads in the sand (and, if that doesn't work, add it's how Julia Roberts got noticed at the start of her career).
Quote from: Chad on 19 July 2016, 11:21:00 AM
Subedai
As far as I know the fusilier description you give is the pre 1808 uniform, when there were separate battalions. The 1813 fusiliers are the 3rd battalion of line regiments with the only distinction being black leatherwork as opposed to white for the 1st and 2nd battalions
According to Nash,
The Prussian Army 1808-1815, Almark Publications, 1972 (my copy is only held together by the thinnest of binding threads, a lot of love and even more careful handling), has diagrams on p. 18 of fusiliers with waist pouches; it still held true that the III Battalions were fusiliers wearing blackened equipment. Another difference between them and musketeers is that the latter usually painted a white circle on their waxed shako covers while the fusiliers left theirs plain.
Also if you follow this link, you will see in the painting by Knotel (second picture down) that the far left figure is that of a fusilier in summer trousers and a cartridge pouch on a waistbelt.
http://napoleonistyka.atspace.com/Prussian_infantry.htm#_uniforms
MickS
The white circle was not unique to fusiliers it was used by all that participated in the 1812 Russian Campaign. The idea that fusiliers used a waisbelt stems from a Knotel plate which actually depicts a NCO in a particular dress order (just checked that link which shows the very plate). All this was explained in the Osprey Warrior volume IIRC. So fusiliers did actually use a crossbelt and the distinction was the style of sword carried which was straight bladed and without handguard.
Here's another Knotel plate showing fusilier with crossbelts
(https://befreiungskriege.files.wordpress.com/2009/08/knoe13_21.jpg)
Brilliant, I've been looking forward to these. I'll have a corps worth please. :)
We now need the Young Guard infantry to fight them, and Russians. :) :) :) :) :) :)
Cheers, Rob :)
Couple of questions:
What does landwehr the left hand figure represent? Is his left leg forward?
The right hand horse of the uhlan figures, is this horse standing still as opposed to the canter pose of the other horses?
Thanks, Rob :)
Quote from: Rob on 22 July 2016, 10:44:47 AM
What does landwehr the left hand figure represent? Is his left leg forward?
The sculptor notes says
"Sergeant/private with pike on shoulder".
Quote from: Rob on 22 July 2016, 10:44:47 AM
The right hand horse of the uhlan figures, is this horse standing still as opposed to the canter pose of the other horses?
Yep, standing pose while the others are in that 'leaping' into the charge type pose. He's not reacted to the order as quickly as the others...!
Quote from: old smokie on 17 July 2016, 10:51:16 PM
nice :) 8)
when are the Brunswickers due
More importantly what about the 1/23rd. Foot The Royal Welch Fusiliers? Waterloo
Not forgetting The 1/7th. Royal Fusiliers. In march 1815, Jersey America. April 1815 Portsmouth so would still be wearing the Stovepipe shako.
Or the 21st Fusiliers off the coast of America then occupation of Paris
The 7th and 21st both served in the Peninsula as did the 23rd
there doesn't appear to be any Light Infantry in stovepipe shakos.
Quote from: Le Manchou on 18 July 2016, 12:55:08 AM
Excellent Leon, very nice figures and I still need 2 Prussian corps and the Guards!
Guards? when did they see action?
From memory the Prussian Guard Regiments Zu Fuss never saw action as they weren't in the Army of the Lower Rhine.
Mike
Correct. They saw no action in 1815
Pete
But they did between 1813&14!
Quote from: mad lemmey on 02 August 2016, 09:34:34 AM
But they did between 1813&14!
Making an immeasurably short period! One for the quantum physicists.
Though sometimes a minute seems to go so slowly. :D
Cheers - Phil
Quote from: Dragoon on 01 August 2016, 11:17:59 PM
Guards? when did they see action?
From memory the Prussian Guard Regiments Zu Fuss never saw action as they weren't in the Army of the Lower Rhine.
I'm not sure they ever saw action but they were present at Lutzen, Bautzen and Leipzig in 1813 and were with Schwarzenberg's advances/retreats during 1814, as an army reserve so could have seen action if the allies had needed them. So I think no one should hold back from using them if those plumes tickle a fancy. :)
Cheers, Rob :)
They were quite heavily engaged at Gross-Gorschen which was one of their battle honours along with Bautzen, Leipzig and Paris.
Regarding the Landwehr packs, what is the command ratio per pack?
Quote from: Hoagie on 19 August 2016, 09:35:07 PM
Regarding the Landwehr packs, what is the command ratio per pack?
One set of command, so 26 foot and 4 command figures per pack. We can supply more command though if you need them.