Thursday 5 March 2015

Prussian WIP 5/3/15

A few Prussians that are showing a good bit of progress.

Von Lutzow freicorp fusilier battalion are on their bases with sand applied.

However after the recent game of plancenoit I vowed to increase my landwehr in my army. 4th battalion of 6th Silesian landwehr 6 figures shy of completion!

I'm taking a break as I maxed out on them over a 1-2 week period. I plan to have the brigade finished by the end of March, I've cleaned up most of the other battalion and have a few ready to paint.

Also a wee bit of conversion fun, I switched the heads of the 2 AB prussian ADC and it worked pretty well, creating an infantry ADC or staff officer full dress and a hussar Officer with bicorne.

The other command is only one conversion, a Shako head added instead of cap as I already had the figure used in cap and the other guy will receive a satchel and become a Feldjaeger officer.

So that's it for the moment

Happy wargaming!

Best Paul 

32 comments:

Gonsalvo said...

Nice work, Paul. Lutzow's is a fun unit to paint for some relief from the Prussian Blue!

Jonathan Freitag said...

Masterful work, Paul.

Ken said...

very nice Paul! Good to see the battalions all lines up.

Jacko said...

Lovely !

Phil said...

Fantastic, just fantastic!

Stryker said...

Wonderful stuff!

Millsy said...

I'm always impressed by the level of character and detail you can pack into a 15mm miniature. Absolutely wonderful.

Paulalba said...

Thanks Peter, yes they are definitely a nice change. I should apologise for the poor pictures. I took them from my phone.

Paulalba said...

Cheers jonathan, very kind of you!

Paulalba said...

Thanks Ken, I think once I get to the end of the landwehr I'll do a prussian parade to see how far on I am?

Paulalba said...

Thanks Jacko, much appreciated!

Paulalba said...

Thanks Phil, glad you like them!!!

Paulalba said...

Thanks Ian, very much appreciated!

Paulalba said...

Thanks Millsy,
I'm really happy how they are coming together now. Glad you like them!

James MacCraggs said...

Looking fantastic, as ever Paul. Need to organise that head swap tutorial we spoke about!

Carlo said...

Every nice Paul. - every time I see your work I yearn for 15 mm again!!

Chasseur said...

Beautiful work, these are just lovely!

John (VonBlucher) said...

The Lutzow's are fantastic, and very hard to make black look this good. Exellent job on the conversions. Setting a completion date is wise as it helps you stay motivated.

Rodger said...

Awesome work Paul!

Paulalba said...

Cheers Jamie, yip we should do that.

Paulalba said...

Thanks Carlo, I do really enjoy 15's however if I had the money and the space I think I would do 28's. You can see so much more on a figure.

Paulalba said...

Thanks chasseur, I wish I could bump out as many troops as you to the quality you get! Your a machine!!!

Paulalba said...

Thanks John, I'll get better pics when they are finished. Yeah I've marked a star on my painting calendar when I want to have both done by. I'll let you know how I get on.

Paulalba said...

Thanks Rodger glad you like them buddy!!!

Christopher(aka Axebreaker) said...

Excellent work yet again Paul!

Christopher

Rulane10@gmail.com said...

You've absolutely nailed the black - can't wait to see the complete unit

GaryA said...

EXCELLENT!

Tarty said...

What figures ( make ) did you use for Lutzow's chaps ? I used Essex for mine but these guys look great.

Paulalba said...

Thanks Christopher!

Paulalba said...

Cheers Ru!

Paulalba said...

Cheers Gary!

Paulalba said...

Glad you like th tarty,
I used the AB landwehr figures with heads swapped. A lot of pain on the figures cutting and drilling the heads and adding backpacks etc but they came out well. You can see the ongoing conversions here:

http://napoleonicsinminiature.blogspot.co.uk/2014/04/von-lutzow-wip-2.html?m=0