Brandenburg Uhlans

Finally I have finished my Brandenburg uhlans. They took a bit longer that I expected mostly because I burned myself out from painting a wee bit however they are done now. Would you believe it, just as I was setting them up to photography I bent over 1 of the lances and the paint came off  . . . I could not believe it, all repaired but things don't look promising for future gaming?

   

The figures are from the AB range. They seem a wee bit finer than some of the other AB figures I have painted and some of the detail was harder to hit but I got through them in the end. I don't think I have ever said this before but you can see a bigger image by clicking on each picture. 

  

The AB figures have the rounded saddle cloth that I think came in around Waterloo from the info I have read. I stupidly considered converting to the wool type but very wisely decided against it.  

  

I picked up a good lot of my uhlans from various sources and it's interesting the little variations in the figures. I have trumpeters in both relaxed and blowing pose (I noticed that after I had started or I would have the relaxed guys). I spotted fighting 15's has the blowing type shown and Eureka in Oz have the relaxed. Also there are 2 types of officer. One is big and looks straight ahead and the other looks to the left 

   

I altered the bug guy a wee bit for my main command base as I thought his head sat a little high in his collar. I put a lot of shade into the figures. The uniform is done with the Foundry 3 Prussian blue shades over a black base coat I have a nice 3 shade flesh I have been using from Foundry again but using a mix of their flesh tubs.

   

 The lance pennons are for the 1813 period yellow over blue.

    

So all in I'm pretty happy with them and they are another unit ticked off my Katzbach OOB. I'm not sure on what large unit to paint next. I have 2 more cavalry regiments to do on the OOB. The Silesian landwehr cavalry (that's looking most likely) or the East Prussian national cavalry (long term project).

    

I need more commands for my OOB and so I have used up my remaining figures doing a few wee conversions to make them different.

       

I had a left over early Russian (or Prussian) officer, I used his head for Kutuzov and I swapped the old Kutuzov head onto his (being Scottish these are my favourite conversions as you don't lose any figures and you have 2 unique to yourself so win-win). The other is the ADC figure a little altered.

  

I've given the General a moustache and a covered cap as well as some other details. General stars are still to be added in.

  

This guys is a simple head swap to a mounted landwehr officer as the Katzbach OOB has tons of landwehr troops.

  

This is my favourite as he is really transforming into something completely different from the original.

  

The brigade command for the uhlans (I was going to add in a guy with lance but advice from Craig and Robert convinced me to pop in the trumpeter).

  

This is a wee extra project. Crazy platen and his trumpeter at Mockern. Still a lot of work to do but starting to take shape.

  

I am converting a Russian dragoon officer into Von Platen and the uhlan czapka has to be removed (it will make a nice touch on the ground). The trumpeter needs the most work and I think he'll need to be raised on the base a little bit as he looks smaller than the other 2. I'll post pics as they come together . . .

Ok that's me for the moment so happy wargaming.

Also I forgot to say I have been looking for an old Citadel colour "Vermin fur" that has a great shade for mixing with my horse colours (mixed with the 2 large tubs I have it was my favourite chestnut to bay shade). I have been looking for it for ages since my tube has been running down. The Coat d' Arms claim to match it with rat brown but it's not the same colour, much lighter and is a dead match for vermin brown from the GW foundation shades. If anyone has a spare tube I would be keen to buy it off you (it has to be the old citadel style paints though in the mid orange/red/brown shade) or if you are into AB Prussians I have a spare few Blucher figures. I would be happy to paint 1 up as a trade!