Nice one. I might be ordering yet more Austrian line infantry from Walt in the near future so I may throw in for some lancers!

I've also got Brunswickers, and they have Uhlans. Also going to get Imperial Guard, so will need Polish Lancers.

I'm thinking of doing a mixed unit of Light and Grenadiers.

They'd be Jaeger Bombers.

....

I'll get my pelisse

 

 

Gimme strength ! 

Cheers - Phil

Have managed to get a can of grey spray paint, so Jaeger's now ready to finish.

Currently painting the tiles for unit status markers.

Well, that's annoying. After painting scores of strips and basing them I've accidentally found out too late a way to pick out the cross straps.

Because the laser etching is so fine, and I'm not a dexterous painter, I couldn't get a subtle enough way to show them.

Up to now I've been undercoating white and just using that as the main colour. Now I've moved onto skirmishers.

The other day I undercoated the Austrian skirmishers with what turned out to be too dark grey. Have bought another can of light-mid grey and resprayed. Painted half the open order ones, then turned to the dozen closed order, and found 7 or 8 strips have the detail picked out perfectly where the light grey hasn't covered the dark in the laser grooves.

Bugger.

Dang!

Would a very light wash pick out detail in the white ones? Just a swipe down the cross belts?

I tried that. I can't work out how to wash MDF flats. The scores are very fine, and I'm not very good.

This only showed up on a few of those I sprayed.

Drat and double drat...

IIRC I did my Austrians in white > black ink wash > drybrush white > pick out flesh/hat/trimmings/weapon and they turned out decently enough en masse and very very quick... it's very easy to over do the wash or dry brush though.

Spent the evening making pennants for lances, and cutting green paper for the top of czapkas.  You can imagine how time consuming g that is in 1:200.

Well it's worse than that.

 

You need to get out more! 
And so do I!

1. Yes, and have the pubs open.

But 2

Have you a better method? Because I have still got another 12 lances and 24 czapkas to do, and the thought of it is keeping me in bed.

You can't see the top of the hat very well here, but it is a piece of paper about 1.5 mm square. For reference on the pennant, that is a Pendraken 20*40 base so 2mm thick.

Uhlans by Last Hussar, on Flickr

Getting the paper cut to the right size is tricky in 1:200,as tolerances for the visual is so fine.

Can you get a hole punch? I know there's crafting punches that do many shapes and sizes, I have coveted them in Hobbycraft before...

Look grwat, but its also a great suggestion too.

Mini nail clippers are proving the best way to do the v shape. You know exactly where the blade is before cutting.

I have put triangular flags on 1/300th scale tanks, I sympathise