Prussian Horse Artillery WIP1

 Just started the last of my Prussian artillery, this time AB horse artillery loading crew.

These are some of my favourite Prussian figures, I'm guessing sculpted after the foot artillery as they look fresher.

I had a little bother cleaning up a couple of the poses, the chap with the ramrod had quite thick flash between the ramrod and arms/body

and the chap with the moving stick had a lump behind his left elbow that needed cut out, this was a pain as it covered a good bit of detail.

I also added a shoulder strap on 1 pose, I can't remember if it was missing on the horse battery crew I did a few years ago?

That's me for the moment, happy modelling and wargaming!

Prussian Artillery WIP 18.1.21

I managed to finish my guns. I don't think I'll bother highlighting the metalwork as I don't really think they need it to be honest.

Managed to get the sand down on the last 2 bases so they are slowly slipping closer to completion.

Be nice to have some more troops ticked off the work bench.

Hope everyone is well, happy modelling and wargaming!!!

More preparation work

I've managed to clean up 3 Prussian landwehr battalions from Old Glory (original OG not blue moon). They will be Pomeranians with white collars.

Love these little figures, I've added variety with these guys as there are a number in each battalion that started life with a tall shako (probably seen mostly in the Waterloo campaign on landwehr figures?)

 I've clipped off the shako tops and added flat cap covers with pro create.

Not sure when I'll get the chance to paint them but they are pretty much ready to roll.

Happy wargaming and modelling!

Looking to the Future

In the background of my hobby life I've been quietly cleaning up my pretty large unpainted figure mountain. Every odd half hour I've picked up scalpel and files and progress has been good.

So far I've managed to clean up and glue 2 regiments of Prussian hussars. A mix of figures purchased from a friend undercoated and from Fighting 15s.

These will be Silesian in brown with yellow braid and green with yellow braid as I already have the Leib hussars plus brandenburg hussars painted up.

I have always loved these charging hussars as they remind me of the many illustrations of the 1813 period hussars (as well as the Elite 28mm hussar I once owned). The figures took a bit of time to clean up especially the horses that had a number of lumps between the rear legs.

I'll not jump straight onto them after the artillery as I have some panzers id like to put to bed but I'm looking forward to doing them as I've not painted horses in a while.

Happy modelling and wargaming!

Prussian Artillery WIP 14.1.21

There is a chance I may bore the hell out of everyone with my constant posts of Prussian foot artillery by the time this lot are done.

I'm afraid it's just my way of keeping tabs on my progress and these are a good few hours away from being completed.

I managed to finished off my 4 big guns, got varnish on the centre section plus barrels of my 2nd set so just the wheels to complete them, set 3 are still in base coat only.

It is, what it is, after the crew figures, guns are a wee but monotonous, however I'm still enjoying them.

 I'm still unsure if I will do a highlight on the metalwork of the guns as I usually do, black alone maybe be enough?

When I get the last guns finished I'll catch the ammo boxes plus any rubbed areas on guns/figures.

I'm getting some really pleasant flashbacks of my early Napoleonic painting/Collecting while doing these guys, memories of purchasing Elite Miniature Prussians.

That's all for now

Happy modelling and wargaming!

Prussian Artillery WIP 13.1.21

Well it's been a helluva long time since I used my blogger account. I lost access to my blog many moons ago when I switched over from my old yahoo mail account after a few friends said they had, had funny emails from my account (I hadn't sent them), it was around the time yahoo was hacked.

It coincided with me falling out of love with blogging as my wife and I had moved over to Samsung phones and tablet and for some reason the software to create/edit posts was sticky in them.

A friend mentioned my old blog recently and it  after having a look I tried to figure out a way around things.

Hopefully I've been successful in changing over the email account attached and the email address that receives notifications. Also the editing software looks a whole lot better especisply as I'm able to put this post together on my mobile. So I'll give it a go again and see how it goes.

Here is a couple of pics of  Prussians I'm working on, I'll take pics soon.

Still getting the hang of the software, I don't think ill be able to reply to comments for 30 days as the account changes over and it takes that long for Yahoo to permanently delete the old enail address. Fun times.

So I can reply to comments with 1 Google account but in order for them to be seen I have to switch and moderate them with my hotmail (now new google account) that I use to create my blog posts! 🤣🤣🤣

Prussian Reserve Battalion

Well I'm happy to say I managed to get another battalion finished off for my Prussian army. This time a reserve battalion.

This is the 3rd battalion for my 6th Prussian reserve regiment. All the figures are Old Glory (old OG) and were great fun to paint. I have had this battalion sitting about for years so it's a wee bit more of a buzz to see them ticked off. 

I have mixed in the regular Old Glory Prussian infantry as a few NCO's, officers and musicians giving the battalion a good variety of poses. This battalion finishes off the 3 battalions of my 6th regiment. 2 West Prussian and 1 Silesian battalion.

And now back to the Saxons!!!

Until next time Happy Wargaming!!!

Prussian Heavy Limbers

Sorry for my lack of activity around the blogging world. I've kept myself busy painting my toys. Had a wee break from Napoleonics and did a number of 28mm War of the Roses figures from front rank, excellent figures and loads of fun. However I'm back to Napoleonics and I've finished a few bits for my Prussian army.  

1st items I've finished are a couple of AB foot artillery limbers and guns. I've now complete 4 of the 6 AB and Bluemoon artillery vehicles I started.

For the uniform blues I have moved over from foundry to Andrea and Vallejo paints and I'm really enjoying the blends they are giving me. The Andrea blues in particular you give a lovely mat finish and mixed with the Vallejo blues give some lovely rich blues.

Goes without saying how lovely the AB Prussian artillery drivers, limber and guns are. Lots of detail to paint and very enjoyable.

I messed up when purchasing my Prussian limbers long ago, only buying heavy limbers (4) and no regular limbers 😊 however I'm not gonna order anymore, I don't think anyone would really notice or care if I have heavy limbers towing medium guns. Anyhow I'll continue to plug on with the collection. I have 2 Prussian caissons to finish off that are already based up and 50% painted and I've also completed a reserve battalion that I'll share soon.

I've also started a new Saxon battalion. A bit of a nightmare to clean up so I broke from my usual habit of cleaning and priming everything before starting painting proper and just got around half cleaned up before I cracked on. 8 down 24 to go.

Hope everyone is doing fine and enjoying our hobby.

All the best and happy wargaming!!!
Paul

Silesian Grenadiers Finished

Another quick post, with the Falkirk lads hoping to put on another refight of Waterloo this year I used the excitement to push on with a number of almost completed Prussian items that I've had sitting around (even if some in reality were not present at Waterloo, I hoped they could maybe slip in as substitutes in some form or another).

1st I managed to finish off a Silesian grenadier battalion that ground to a halt sometime last year. A bit of fatigue set in after painting a few Prussian items in a row.

Finishing this grenadier battalion ties up the 1st and 2nd silesian regiments together for me with only volunteer jager and maybe a third rank group of skirmishers to be added. 

I completed my 2nd silesian regiment with Minifigs 2nd generation figures many moons ago and the 1st regiment with AB figures so it's good to get the grenadiers ticked off as well.

I have also been clearing out my Prussian command figures. I did a couple of Prussian adjutants. Should come in handy at some point. 

This wee guy is probably my favourite as the horse came out nice.  The Vallejo hull red and Cavalry brown combine well to make horse colours straight forward. Made this 1 a bay, at least I think that's what it is. 😆

Happy how the cavalry adjutant came out too, probably more for the 1813 period but what does it matter.

I've also been working on Yorck plus a Blucher for 1813 and another couple of commands. However I just recently got the message that the Waterloo game may not actually go ahead so I've slipped off the Prussian wave again. 

Anyway, I hope everyone is doing well and making good progress with their projects.  Thanks very much for all the kind, encouraging comments I've received online.

All the best

Happy Wargaming!!!

Silesian 4th and 6th landwehr

Sorry for the lack of updates, seems to be the common line at the top of each new post and this 1 is no different.

Still I have plenty on the go . . .

I finally managed to get the 3rd and 4th battalions finished for the 4th Silesian landwehr regiment. 

They are a mix of landwehr and reserves figures from AB. I got the idea while reading Dr Stephen Summerfield book on landwehr. The 4th seemed to have moved over to a short coat in 1815. Just to give variation in the sea of traffic wardens I thought it would be a good idea to mix the reserve troops through as a transition in clothing, something like that.

I also popped in the odd casualty and character to make up the numbers.

As usual I try to put a character on each base, a chap cheering, a spare drummer etc as I feel it adds, well more character to the unit. 🤗

The figures were ordered from fighting 15's a good while ago. The reserve figures I have to say were disappointing. On a few of the poses there were flaws at the point the bayonets met the musket or on the inner bayonet. Also some of the legs were very fragile at the knees plus the odd problem with faces.  Thankfully I was able to hand around 40 in all to Ian of fighting 15's at Falkirk so he could see the specific poses himself. Also some of the landwehr figures seemed to have excess metal on the left of their faces, I tried to make this into a bandage where possible. I'm sure the moulds have been sorted out now that the problem was pointed out. It was reassuring to hear from Ian of fighting 15's that he appreciates people making him aware of any problems so they can be fixed and as he said, at the price the customer should get them in perfect condition. Also saved me sending them back in the post. In the past I have usually just given any problem figures to buddies who don't mind miscast figures or broken bayonets before painting.

The AB landwehr figures are some of the best in the range for variety and are nice to paint, almost to good to be landwehr.

I position any with weak bayonets in the centre of groups or near the flag like the chap with beard on the left.

So that's the 4th and 6th Silesian regiments of landwehr finished for my katzbach order of battle and I'm Glad to have them done!

I've been feeling recently that I'm drifting away from blogging, it's not that I don't really enjoy reading posts, there are thousands I want to read and that's the problem. I find it hard to keep track. I can't paint while reading or typing and it's just so much easier to listen while cleaning up troops or basing than searching online. I find it increasingly difficult to force myself to put a blog post together compared to shooting a quick video. I'll keep posting and hopefully the blogger app will be improved for Ipad? 

Anyway I've got a few more finished items to post up.

Happy Wargaming

all the best!

Prussian Powder Wagon

Following on from my Prussian horse artillery caisson I've managed to get another of my Prussian vehicles finished. This time a powder wagon.

As usual I've made a wee video of the finished vehicle on YouTube if anyone is interested.

I spotted on the Perry Miniatures website a lovely painted model of a Prussian powder wagon so I decided to try and capture a little bit of its flavour.

The vehicle itself is again a really lovely model produced by bluemoon. I added the T bar at the front from a warbases vehicle and it fits very well. The drivers again are from AB and as usual are excellent.

Obviously being Prussian the text on the wagon is in German so if you spot an error please let me know!

I added a little step onto the vehicle by drilling and threading a little bit of plasticard. I am not 100% sure on this however the position of the little overhang shouts out for a step to me.

This time I went for the regular train driver uniform although it's a tricky 1 to nail down exactly.  From what I've read, been told and seen it was a straight forward dark blue coat with mid to light blue collar with white metal buttons.

They appear to have worn the regular reinforced overall and I went for a red lining like the artillery drivers. Again they appear to have carried a cavalry style sabre on black beltwork.

I am still very much enjoying bring the little bluemoon vehicles to life, however I may take a break to get some more troops finished off.

Mai and I have a little getaway planned so I'll probably not get much progress done for a bit.

Happy Wargaming!!!   

Prussian Horse Artillery Caisson

Life continues to be pretty busy however in my spare time I have slowly pushed on with my Prussian artillery vehicle project.

So the 1st of my artillery park finished is a caisson for my horse artillery batteries.

As mentioned before the vehicle is from the relatively new Bluemoon Prussian range and is really lovely. The drivers are from AB, I had consciously decided a number of years ago to only use a 4 horses team for each of my AB limbers, with the thought of converting Prussian support vehicles this left me spare drivers.

I'm so happy that bluemoon decided to do the support vehicles as they have given me so much inspiration.

For the horse caisson drivers following advice from the lads on FB I decided to add a litewka plus the leatherwork and fittings the horse drivers may have worn. This was added with greenstuff and hasn't come out to badly. 

The caisson was painted with my trusty humbrol Prussian blue lightend with an old grey I have kept over the years so my Prussian vehicles all match.  

The traces were made with twisted thin wire threads and were superglued into holes I drilled at the attachment points. I then created attachment loops and harness with greenstuff. 

I may use this week guy as my profile pic sometime?

All in all a nice little project, the traces were the tricky bit but I think worth it.

I hope everyone is finding some time to paint their toys.

Happy Wargaming!