Long way to go yet, but so far....The Prussian staff, reading left to right: Ziethen, Private Milecovic, Schwerin, Frederick, Biche, Seydlitz, and Dessauer. Austrians: Browne, Lucchesi, Private Rackozy, Esterhazy, Daun, and Haddik.
Some of the artillery. That 12 pdr looks frightening in this scale.
The Emperor's hussars and the Bethlen hussars.
Nadasty hussars, and, going north, the von Ruesch hussars. Note that the flag is authentic. Prussian hussars didn't carry colours in the field, but an exception was made for these chaps, who were allowed to carry a captured French standard. Since they went on to break an Austrian cuirassier regiment, I trust they also got a good pension scheme!
The unpronouncable von Szekely regiment, and von Wechmar's too.
The Franciscus le Noble Freikorps rifles going over the hills and far away, with two Croatian Grenzer units to stop them.
Closer views of the Austrian pandours. The little guns were actually issued to Grenzer units; here, the Warasdiener-Creutzer, and the Gradisca.
Nice stuff, Kitty.
I'll mail you later about a query (or two) regarding the Aztecs.
Cheers - Phil
I'm all ears.
Yous, Dumbo.
Blimey, lots of troops! Always good to see named units, and I assume with the correct coloured uniforms?
As far as possible. Sources more learned than I call each other liars, historical records differ, and there are details which elude my brush; but I'm trying to get it reasonably right.
Nice!
What do you use for your bases? hem always appear very thin :-\
Cardboard with a layer of epoxy glue. In a few cases I've explored including a length of paper clip wire as well, lest the bases warp. I don't flock, since I think if your cloth doesn't have a matching texture this draws attention to the bases, rather than increasing realism. Perhaps someday I'll find a suitable textured gaming cloth and need to redo the whole nine yards. :(
Quote from: FierceKitty on 31 July 2016, 06:53:12 AM
I'm all ears.
Yous, Dumbo.
Test message for Dumbo on its way. ;)
Cheers - Phil
It's got to me.
Nice touch giving the hussars the captured flag.
I'll tell Fritz when I see him again.
Good looking array of troops.
Quote from: FierceKitty on 31 July 2016, 07:16:09 AM
Cardboard with a layer of epoxy glue. In a few cases I've explored including a length of paper clip wire as well, lest the bases warp. I don't flock, since I think if your cloth doesn't have a matching texture this draws attention to the bases, rather than increasing realism. Perhaps someday I'll find a suitable textured gaming cloth and need to redo the whole nine yards. :(
Works pretty good :-bd
DOn't worry about flocking though, that goes on fairly quick!
Very odd, really; no heavy infantry or heavy cavalry yet (be starting on those soon).
Nice
Quote from: Norm on 31 July 2016, 07:40:44 AM
Nice touch giving the hussars the captured flag.
Yep. That's very coolio 8)
Some more SYW. All the Austrian grenadiers (no flags :(), 25% of their musketeers, and von Petrowski's uhlans, who look a bit smarter than the photograph shews.
Kalnein musketeers, and the amazing 5th (von Bayreuth) dragoons. At Hohenfriedburg they took 67 (count 'em!) Austrian and Saxon standards. I don't care who complains that doing Prussians and Austrians is a SYW cliche!
My better half set up the shot, which explains why the grenadiers are lagging behind the musketeers. This is four battalions, all German; there will be three more German and three more foreign (Hungarian and Italian) battalions eventually, with eleven for the Prussians (one being Freikorps, who don't really count).
Quote from: FierceKitty on 14 August 2016, 11:05:12 AM
Kalnein musketeers, and the amazing 5th (von Bayreuth) dragoons. At Hohenfriedburg they took 67 (count 'em!) Austrian and Saxon standards. I don't care who complains that doing Prussians and Austrians is a SYW cliche!
TBH I have always preferred the eastern to the western theatre. My next army will be the Russians.
Russkies are tough and have superb artillery, but their hussar uniforms don't look as good, imffho.
.....but there is so much red - a real red army.
Very cool!
Very nice I look forward to following the progress of this project
So do I! My work week is so inhuman that I'm painting verrrrrrry slowly. :(
Prussian regular dragoons are done; now for another brave session on the production line turning out three new units of Prussian musketeers.
Austrian regular dragoons done. There abide yet the following to be painted:
Prussians - two units cuirassiers, 1 unit grenadier dragoons, 2 units regular musketeers, 1 unit Freikorps musketeers, camp.
Austrians - three units cuirassiers, 6 units musketeers, camp.
Pardon my ignorance, but what are grenadier dragoons? And why are so many of the musketeers camp?
Mollinary
Dragoons in bearskin caps. I daresay the point was that since they'd recently been infantry, they might as well keep a few reminders. Not much used by the Prussians, but there was one unit.
As for their lack of butchness, in an age where the officers used curlers and a man was very likely to wear make-up....
A man's not properly dressed without lace, ruffles, make up and some silks and brocade!
Don't get distracted, FK, keep going!
Romanian infantry officers in WWI abjured from wearing eye liner :o
The horror! Truly a most terrible conflict. Next you'll tell me someone on the Western Front was seen loosening their tie!
The Prussian army is painted and based. Still some number of Austrians to go, but they're a bit faster, thanks to the miracle of white aerosol spray.
Photos please.
=D> I certainly applaud anyone who can paint up two such armies. I'd never have the commitment or dedication to get the project even a quarter finished [I just need to look at my own 10mm ACW or Zombies.]
I quite like the basing. As you say, it works well with the plainer base cloth.
I'll post a few pix when my wife's here to help with her greater tech-savvy. In case I've given the wrong idea, I haven't tried to do the whole Prussian army for Leuthen!
The whole force deployed, with too few reserves as usual.
The right wing, with cuirassiers and grenadiers; guess where the punch is coming? There were a few standing grenadier regiments, so the colours are not an oversight.
The left wing, covered by hussars and dragoons.
The Freikorps, reminding everyone that Prussian efficiency is not universal! The regimental title, Quintus Icilius, for those who don't know the tale, came about when the king had a disagreement with Charles Guiscard about a certain Roman officer of that name. After they'd consulted the books, and Frederick had been proved wrong, he got his revenge by appointing his friend commander of this unit under the disputed name.
I owe Leon serious thanks for casting all these officer figures for me, so that my cuirassiers could have a more dashing and heroic look to them. Note the vexillium with the guards is not a mistake, though I've exaggerated the size a bit; and they did actually wear polished steel breastplates, unlike most. Von Kleist irregular horse grenadiers and some Bosniak lancers in support.
8)
Cheers - Phil
Good work FK, now, how about the opponents?
Under the brush.
Misread that as under the bush!
Well, that Prussian platoon firing is frightening!
Great progress, FK. :-bd (it took me nearly two years to paint two reasonably sized armies!). At this rate, will we some action before Christmas?
Hope so, but off to Italy on 14th December....
looking good
Take care
Andy
Very nice, thank you for sharing.
Austrian army now the stronger for the Emmanuel von Starhemberg foot and the O'Donell (really!) cuirassiers.
Why the 'really' FK, plenty of Irish serving with the Austrians, FM Browne springs to mind.
Was there a European army that DIDN'T have the Wild Geese nesting somewhere in it's ranks?!
Quote from: cameronian on 17 October 2016, 06:53:54 AM
Why the 'really' FK, plenty of Irish serving with the Austrians, FM Browne springs to mind.
I know that, you know that, but I'll bet there are many who don't know that.
You sound like a Latin primer, I know, you (singular) know, he, she or it knows, we know ... ;D
Good point though, sometimes I forget.
"Little do they know how little I know about the little they know. If only I knew what the little that they know, I'd know a little. I'll have to keep my little ears open you know. " - Neddie Seagoon :D
...or you might end up not knowing what they think you think they are thinking.
We need to stop this now ...
I saw Esau sitting on a seesaw.
The Jung-Modena cuirassiers are done, and there is already paint on the Anhalt-Zerbst regiment, and on the Pallavicini musketeers (yes, I know those decadent southerners called them "fusiliers". I took quite a bit of painting along with me to work yesterday (we're required to clock in a certain number of hours a week - then they wonder why nobody lifts a finger to do any research!).
Ugh. I hate the way one can't correct clumsy posts an hour later!
Saturday morning. A devoted pacifist, Sebastian is doing his furry best to prevent the Seven Years War from starting by hindering the painting of the Austrian army.
Quote from: FierceKitty on 22 October 2016, 04:27:13 AM
Ugh. I hate the way one can't correct clumsy posts an hour later!
I can......
Any time.....
.Anyone's.Is Sebastian a Siamese ?
I don't think I've ever seen a cat of that particular breed with such dark colouring
Cheers -
Well, I bought him at Chatuchak market in Bangkok, so in one sense he's very Siamese. I remember a neighbour in Cape Town once knocked on the door to announce that "a sort of Siamese" was trying to jump the rather high wall around my mum's garden; I resisted the urge to ask if he meant Lee (who's also from central Thailand, aka Siam, but of Chinese ancestry).
Returning to your query, he doesn't have true Siamese points; he's closer to the breed known as a snowshoes. A bit unusual here, but not unknown; I was once carrying him to the vet for a checkup and a neighbour rushed out to show me her virtually identical kitty. The colour is described here as see sawat, meaning something like seal-coloured. Real Siamese attached for comparison:
Quote from: FierceKitty on 22 October 2016, 04:27:44 AM
Saturday morning. A devoted pacifist, Sebastian is doing his furry best to prevent the Seven Years War from starting by hindering the painting of the Austrian army.
Cute!
Oh, I am.
Viola, on the other hand, is actively anti-Hapsburg; she keeps knocking over the centre companies of the Pallavicini regiment with her chin.
Cute ?...You ?..Nah. ;)
Thanks for the pointers on the cat's 'breed', FK.....Thought that was slightly unusual colouring.
Cheers - Phil
Quote from: Techno on 22 October 2016, 10:44:48 AM
Cute ?...You ?..Nah. ;)
Are you calling Lemmey a liar?
Viola, btw, is Sebastian's sister.
The witch's familiar!
Is she?
Austrian cuirassiers are plunging and rearing impatiently. Two units of Hungarians await my attention, while my wife is doing the last Germans. The end is no longer unthinkably distant.
Oh cripes! and I've just got out my 1509-ish Papal army in 28mm to give it a look at as a not very distant future project. Could be several months before they go up against the Milanese.
So having spent so many months on painting the little chaps, how many minutes will you spend on getting the terrain correct?
I've had the terrain for ages; I'm converting to 10mm from 6mm, which is the scale all right-thinking gamers use with 10mm figures anyway, not that I'm pointing fingers at anyone, Ithoriel.
My day off again; I think there's a good chance I'll finish the Austrians today.
Well done that man. I will also get a clear run at stuff this afternoon.
Quote from: FierceKitty on 26 October 2016, 12:39:12 AM
I've had the terrain for ages; I'm converting to 10mm from 6mm, which is the scale all right-thinking gamers use with 10mm figures anyway, not that I'm pointing fingers at anyone, Ithoriel.
If you lot want your troops brawling over doll's houses that's entirely your affair. I prefer figures and buildings in scale, where possible. If 24 figures are a battalion, one house is a village or small town.
Is it true that one country is now the EU, according to UK opinion?
Oh please don't get me started. Nobody, including the leading politicians, appears to know what is going on. The referendum seems to have been the result of a massive protest coupled with a swathe of misinformation, disinformation and just plain ignorance. If you elect politicians to represent your interests then let them get on with it. Don't put major decisions into the hands of a semi-literate populous.
If that's the case in the UK, where education and awareness standards are relatively high, most of the world is in real trouble.
Indeed it is - grow a beard or we'll cut your head off, as commanded by an invisible man in the sky.
All real men have beards anyway. :)
True enough, so when the big takeover happens I should be safe enough.
Personally I think it all went wrong when young men started getting funny haircuts and stopped honouring the gods. Everyone's writing a book, as well!
As to modern music, it's all just noise.
I'm with Aristotle on this one.
It is my honour to inform Her Imperial Majesty, and other interested parties, that the Austrian army is now painted, and eager to be unleashed at the throat of the Marquise of Brandenburg tomorrow afternoon.
Looking forward to hearing how that goes.
More tomorrow.