A few more 1806 Prussians

The last offering this week is a 12 figure unit of Prussian Cuirassiers together with an assortment of battalion guns.

Four battalion gun sections. One (crewed by Grenadiers, 2nd right) is from Foundry/Casting Room 1806 range while the smaller figures are also Foundry, from their Early Prussian range with the infantry and artillery in the silly little hats for the 1792'ish period of the Revolution. (Valmy, etc)

I've not yet worked out how I will deploy the guns in a game, but I will probably attach one to each infantry brigade as a visual reminder that each battalion has battalions guns attached, which in Black Powder gives them an extra firing dice (Well thats what I do anyway). Or, I could still attach them to each brigade and give each cannon stats of 1/1/0 and a range of 24" and don't give the infantry units the extra firing dice, which on thinking about it might make them too tough.

Prussian KR No. 7

The cuirassier regiment was painted by my friend Barry. I'm sure he will be glad to read that I have just ordered some extra cuirassier figures off Elite to bring this regiment and the one featured yesterday up to 30 figures, in five squadrons of six. The flags are by Adolfo Ramos (€6.20 each fully assembled) and the basing is by me.

I am going to start basing my large (36) Dragoon regiment this afternoon/evening so they ought to make an appearance by the end of the weekend.

Prussian Cuirassiers 1806 (just for Carlo)

Pictured here is a regiment of 24 Prussian cuirassiers for my 1806 project. These are Elite Miniatures and I think they look great. I've said before that Elite Minis are a bit like Marmite, Sprouts or Broccoli, you either love 'em or hate 'em. Well, I like all three!

 KR No. 11 Leibkarabiniers 

I have another squadron of 12 in the basing queue, as well as 36 Dragoons. Maybe I'll get them done over the weekend, but I want to get the infantry and the remaining artillery based up asap. I REALLY ought to bring all my Prussian Cuirassier regiments up to at least 30 figures so they can be deployed as five squadrons of six figures should I wish to. That will work out a little pricey at the moment as I would need another 24 Elite figures and 18 Foundry for KR No. 2. Its my birthday soon so.......

Prussian Fusilier brigade 1806

Out of the basing production line this morning are three battalions of Prussian Fusiliers, which make  up the Fusilier Brigade in my 1806 Prussian Army. One battalion are Foundry/Casting Room (to the front in red facings) and the other two are from Three Armies. Actually I couldn’t sleep last night so was in the man cave at 1:30pm applying tufts to their bases.

Prussian Fusiliers were distinguished by four diffferent facing colours, Red, Black, green and light blue. I have three of those here, but the fourth (green) can be seen on one of the skirmishers bases that form part of the brigade.

Anyway, here they are in all their splendour.

What shall I do next?

Prussian Artillery 1806

My first battery of Prussian artillery is now complete. This one represents an eight-gun 6pdr foot battery. The figures are again old Foundry/Casting Room and the cannon are Elite. I have two further batteries, one of 12pdrs and one horse battery of 6pdrs, plus a few battalion guns (in theory one for each brigade).

Andy Copestake made a comment on his blog regarding people moaning about painting horses. I agree  with him; horses are easy but cannon and the assorted paraphernalia are what I hate the most. I will not be buying limbers for this battery or indeed any of the others as I plan to press gang my Seven Years War Prussian limbers into service.

What they would have looked like in 1806 if photography had been invented.

I'm presently working on the basing of my Fusilier Brigade of three battalions and expect to have them finished sometime tomorrow. 

Prussian Infantry 1806

The Prussian army of 1806 wore very stylish and colourful uniforms, which did little to add to their performance on the battlefield. Here is the first regiment of two battalions straight off the basing dock. These are old Foundry/Casting Room Miniatures. They're actually quite nice but only affordable when Foundry/CRM have one of their too infrequent 20% off sales. The flags are by Adolfo Ramos.

I.R. No. 3 Renuard

New Scots for Flanders and Holland

The latest troops to be completed and have their bases done before marching off to barracks are my replacement Scots Highlander battalions for Flanders in 1793/4 and Holland in 1799. The Highland regiments replaced their kilts with plain white trousers and gaiters in both these campaigns and I believe did the same in West Indies. These figures are by Victorious Miniatures and are very nice castings. Both these battalions are of 32 figures so under Black Powder I shall class them as 'large'.

HM 79th Highlanders

HM 92nd Highlanders

 Now its back to doing the bases for my Prussians. Urgh!

1806 Campaign Prussian Cavalry

Saturday and Sunday saw me complete the basing of three more Prussian cavalry regiments for my 1806 Campaign army (but also for use in earlier French Revolutionary Wars scenarios).

The three regiments I based up today joined by a fourth which I did some time ago.

HR No. 8 von Blucher. These are maybe one of the best hussar castings I have come across, by Forgotten and Glorious Miniz of Paris.

Dragoon Regt No 3. Casting Room Miniatures(Foundry) purchased in one of their 20% off sales. 

KR No 2. More Casting Room Miniatures.

HR No 7 von Koeller. More FGMiniz figures, painted and based a few months ago but now joined by a little more muscle.

Tomorrow I shall start the bases on a few battalions of Prussian Infantry but only after I've done those for His Majesty's 79th and 92nd Foot. My original battalions were in kilts etc which isn't correct for Flanders or the Helder Campaign (so pedantic Colin!) so I sold them on eBay (they are now well on their way to sunny Australia) and replaced them with Victorious Miniatures 1793/94 Scots infantry in plain white overalls. Of course I COULD have used my AWI Highlanders in gaiter trousers but couldn't do it in the end.

More photos tomorrow I hope.