King's German Legion

Realising that to be painting up a Dutch Belgian Brigade, a Prussian Brigade and a fair few Austrian units is not enough, I thought i'd finalise my plans on parchment for the Anglo allied contingent i've been building slowly over the last few years, with a pack bought here and a pack bought there. This is my theoretical strength of my King's German Legion brigade. It's mostly made up of Foundry miniatures. Most of which were bought before the plastic revolution that grips our hobby. I could, however, potentially buy the Perry's plastic brits to fill the ranks of the 8th Line Battalion. And one day soon, i'll start the tartan terrors that are just 'there'.

Figometer Update (November 2009)

Finished 7 miniatures this past month (Prussians and Dutch militia), some of these have been sat waiting to be completed since the summer, but also finished 3 new miniatures as well. Not a bad tally considering extreme lack of painting time over the last few months. Hope to get some pictures up sometime soon.

On a bit of a downer at the moment as we've had to pull out of buying our next house due to lack of building regulations regarding conversion work (the house would have had a lovely painting area too!). Sure we'll bounce back, but the run up to Christmas is looking hectic now, with house hunting in a winter market to add to festive madness.

WIP West Prussian Fahnentrager

Started the colour bearer for my 2nd Battalion 1st West Prussians (IR Nr 6). The first battalion's colour had a white background with the black eagle on a green field, the second battalion carried the colour shown here. The staffs these colours were nailed to were, as far as I can tell, painted white for both battalions.

Having no desire to freehand the flag at the moment, I reckon i'm going to print and use this rendering of the flag, photoshopped up a bit. It might look a bit crap and basic at 'normal' size, but when it is shrunken down to about 3cm, and worked up with a little acrylic paint it will look fine.

When this chap is complete there'll only be one more officer to paint and the rest will be rank n file, I really want to finish these guys (along with the Dutch militia and Landwehr) so I can move to other units.

WIP West Prussian

I've almost finished this chap too. Dressed in a reservist shell jacket with faded facings and lacking a good musket and pack, and non regulation overalls - probably made from a sack! I have included a couple of these figures in my 6th Regiment battalion to add some flavour and slight shabbiness to the unit.

WIP Austrian casualty

I said i'd get some painting in last weekend, and I did. Bought some Austrian Napoleonic casualties a while back from Foundry, to one day grace a part of some gaming table, or to act as markers. Used an off white (Foundry Granite A followed by Vallejo German Camo Beige) to paint the uniform, rather than my usual Foundry Arctic Grey triad. He has the first face i've painted for 3 months and I was pleased with the outcome. The face is paler than the hands in the real world, camera hasn't picked this up much.