Fred Funcken 1921 - 2013

I have not posted for a while again, due to painting fits and starts. But I thought it appropriate to comment on the recent passing of Fred Funcken. When I was growing up I found the uniform books that he produced and illustrated with his wife Liliane fascinating, and it was the information inside these books that contributed so much to me getting hooked on the colourful details of the Napoleonic period.

It was only recently that I bought up a beautifully preserved German copy of the Funckens' Historiche Uniformen 19.Jahrhundert. With the advances that have been made in indentifying uniforms since the 60's and 70's, these books may or may not now be seen to be totally accurate, but they are beautiful books in their own right and a fine contribution to any collection of military reference material.

Sad to lose someone who contributed so much to the wargaming and military history world. Rest in peace Fred.

The Instagram Militia

Another Westphalian Landwehr work in progress. Was messing with my phone camera to see if it could handle some macro.

WIP (Habsburg Resurgent)

Have picked up the brush recently, and apart from the continuation of the FPW projects, have dug out the Austrian Napoleonic project.

Perry's Foundry sculpts once more here. I will be getting hold of the Perry Austrians and mixing them into my Foundry army, they wont be intermingling in units so the proportion differences wont be really an issue.

I saw the new Perry twins' Austrian Wurst limber last week and it got me a little excited, guess i'll be picking up one of those sometime soon...

Flying Mobile

And another WIP. A prone garde mobile and his chassepot taking careful aim at some unfortunate, whilst stuck in the guts by a staple..

More 3rd Foot Guards

A couple more WIPs. The litzen is not really correct, especially on the cuffs (brandenburg cuffs on these sculpts, whereas the Guard wore swedish cuffs) but do I really care that much at 25mm?! The crimson piping should only run down the left of the tunic, not both skirt fronts, and should you really attempt cockade colours on chin scale bosses at this size...