tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-54867235429753500912024-03-19T01:38:18.249-07:00Zed's NapoleonicsZed1http://www.blogger.com/profile/18302942452019559750noreply@blogger.comBlogger172125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5486723542975350091.post-34121002935377547592019-01-11T13:41:00.002-08:002019-01-11T13:41:41.030-08:00Little blue men
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As I indicated before, I had placed an
order for the new Strelets Prussian Landwehr. Just a week after my
last posting, the package arrived – so far, so good. To be honest,
I was waiting for 1/72 Landwehr in plastic for a very long time. The
ones that HaT recently produces didn't meet my expectations – too
few poses, too much the same poses as in every other HaT set – so I
decided to wait for Strelets to make it's own set.
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I know – you can easily get Landwehr
infantry from several metal figure producers, but as I'm up to mix
them with other plastics Prussian regulars sooner or later, you
mostly find metal 1/72 Landwehr that doesn't fit in – either the
metal figures are modelled too rough or don't fit in size.
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Well. Okay. Here they are. And well...
I have an issue with them – but let's start from the beginning.</div>
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At first – I ordered the figures
directly from Linear-A. Due to christmas time, delivery took a little
bit longer, but as I'm not one of those Amazon-addicted people who
expect a parcel to arrive right after clicking onto the 'order'
button, it didn't bother me too much.
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Linear-A delivers figure sets 'unboxed'
in a large envelope. The set boxes are put flattened into the
envelope, together with the figure sprues. This saves shipment costs
– if wanted so, you can reassemble the boxes right at home and put
the figures back into them.
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Let's have a look at the sprues. </div>
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I ordered both sets – the standing
ones as well as the marchers. Having a look at the different poses, I
found them very convincing. I already enjoyed the standing/marching
Brits'n Scots and if you also do so, the Prussian Landwehr will not
disappoint you.
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Technically, I would date these figures
for the period between mid- to late 1813 onwards. Although these
chaps are still not all equipped in a similar way (some have water
bottles, some not, water bottles differ, some have scabbards, some
even the short infantry sabers), all have the same sort of caps, all
have muskets, all have shoes. This means that these Landwehr men do
not represent the very early, quickly conscripted and poorly equipped
troopers of the very early campaign. And another detail – there's a
flagbearer with every set. As by the end of September 1813, carrying
flags was forbidden for Landwehr units, this figure is only suitable
for the battles on German soil – which includes prominent ones like
the battles of Moeckern, Grossgoerschen, Grossbeeren, Katzbach and –
of course – Dresden.
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But that's only for history lovers.
Most wargamers won't give a damn about it – they urge to have
Landwehr on the gaming table!
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So far, so good. Let's get back to the
figures. As I said, I have an issuue with them. For a long time, the
only Landwehr available on the market were the old Airfix figures.
Not that I'd say they're very bad – in fact, they are quite nice –
but they are very hard to mix with other Prussians just because of
their size. The Airfix Landwehr is far too small, especially when put
aside the MAC-Prussians from HaT, that are a little bit bulky. I
bought Prussians from 1815 and HaT a while ago. I even have some old
Revell-Prussians as well. But as I found them to be too small in
comparizon to the regulars, I never bought any Airfix Landwehr,
instead I waitied for better things to come.
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And now... well, look for yourself. </div>
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This is a comparizon between old HaT
Prussian reserve infantry, Revell Prussian line infantry, 1815
Prussian line infantry, our Strelets boys and the MAC Prussians from
HaT. You see what I mean? Hell, yeah – the Strelets Landwehr is
rather small. It would fit best with the Revell guys. If you want to
mix them with the HaT MACs, you better leave some distance between
the units, because otherwise the difference in size will be too
obvious. And this, in fact, sucks.
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'Well – the difference in height
isn't too much, what's the matter?', some of you might say. There's
one thing about the Strelets Landwehr that is on the one hand really
cool and realistic – on the other way, it makes bad things even
worse: not all men are of the same size. In Strelet's set, you find
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Yeah. Great
idea. But not when it's up to compare sizes with other sets.
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Don't get me wrong – I wanted these
figures, I'm still glad to have these figures, but I would have
expected them to match the size of other plastic manufacturer's
products and as they do not, this leaves me a little bit frustrated.
In fact, it was unexpected – I put them besides the Strelets Brits
and see: the Brits are taller. Recognizably taller.
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Okay. Enough ranting. Let's get back to
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At first – plastic material, thick
sprues and slightly concave figure bases remain the same as ever.
There's little extra plastic on them, but you should trim away the
mould lines because they are considerable.
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Here's a primed figure – note the
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There's not anything dwarfish or bulky about them
anymore – modern Strelets figures are really lightyears away from
their early counterparts. What I really enjoy is that the modeller
seems to have gotten the musket issue under control – while the
British/Scottish soldiers were equipped with somewhat bulky muskets
that rather looked like arquebuses, the Landwehr soldiers carry good
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And here's the test painting result –
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Took me an evening to paint
– there's not much detail about the uniform and the equipment
doesn't take lots of attention (not many straps, buttons, laces,
whatsoever – simple equip, simple uniform). Apart from the size
issue, I don't think that there's much that you could do wrong with
buying these sets. Just keep 'em away from too large figures and
everything's fine. ;-)
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Zed1http://www.blogger.com/profile/18302942452019559750noreply@blogger.com11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5486723542975350091.post-90874276631467058902018-12-31T01:23:00.001-08:002018-12-31T01:23:31.422-08:00Year's endWell. That was it. Swoosh - 2018 is almost dead and gone. Freaking quick, the year passed by.<br />
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Unfortunately, this year became so much filled with business, politics and kid's sports that there had been almost no time at all for the hobby. Nevertheless, I have still not given up. There's a bunch of 25mm French hussars on my desk which I work on every now and then, plus I couldn't withstand to place an order on the new Strelets Prussian Landwehr sets. I've been waiting for years for good plastic Landwehr, so let's see how good they really are - and I promise that there's an unboxing article coming up in January.<br />
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As the next year will presumably not be much lesser busy then this year was, I don't make any painting plans this time - it would just put me under unnecessary stress. What we all don't need is unnecessary stress. ;-)<br />
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The only thing I can promise is that I'm not out of the hobby and that I'll keep up with what I'm doing - just way more slower then I did in the last years. And by the end of 2020, things are going to be much easier then today.<br />
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So for now, I wish all of you a good, healthy and happy new year. Make 2019 your year, folks!<br />
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<br />Zed1http://www.blogger.com/profile/18302942452019559750noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5486723542975350091.post-56684281494227690782018-08-10T13:26:00.000-07:002018-08-10T13:26:07.434-07:00Saxon artilleryShort notice: I'm still there. Although I have very little time for painting, I finished a little Set of figures the other day.<br />
I bought a set of the French artillery that Zvezda made for their wargaming-system. And then things went worse...<br />
You can read the whole story on <a href="http://bennosfiguresforum.com/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=21866&p=239201#p239201">Benno's figures forum</a> - here on my Blog, I just show you the pictures. ;-)<br />
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<br />Zed1http://www.blogger.com/profile/18302942452019559750noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5486723542975350091.post-11327445863463313072018-05-12T01:25:00.003-07:002018-05-12T01:25:55.270-07:00Next update: Garde d'honneurI've just finished my actual bunch of French garde d'honneur, right before FIGZ. That doesn't mean I'm done with that subject - there are still some cities left and haven't even startet with deep research.<br />
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Garde d'honneur de Aix-en-Provence. This city is the historic capital of the Provence region in southeastern France and is today the eleventh largest city of the country. The city history goes back to the Roman city of Colonia Aquae Sextiae Salluviorum - the later name Aix is a shortened reference to the former latin name. <br />
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The city of Amiens is another one that already existed in ancient times. It is located in the northeastern part of France, relatively near to Belgium. Most of you will probably connect it to the Somme area where heavy trench battles took place during WW1. Note the black crossbelts - pretty unusual, especially for French units <br />
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Bayonne - a city located near the Pyrenees, a mountain region that divides France from Spain. Bayonne is located on the atlantic coast and has played an important role during the revolutionary and Napoleonic time. Being close to the Spanish border, a lot of diplomatic activity has been done there. In 1814, Bayonne was besieged by the British - read more under <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Bayonne">Battle of Bayonne (Wikipedia) </a>- which means that this unit is definitely of interest for wargaming. <br />
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Lille is in fact directly on the French-Belgian border. It had some 50,000 inhabitants in the early 19th century and was a center of textile production.<br />
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This is a member of the Garde d'honneur de Nancy, a city located in the eastern part of France. <br />
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Orleans is a city with a rich history, located approximately a hundred kilometers south-south-west of Paris. It's likely that units like this were crammed together for defending Paris in the last part of the 1814 campaign.<br />
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Rennes, located in the northeastern part of France, is the only example of two different uniforms within the same city guard that I have found so far. Dark green-pink is for the 1st, dark green-dark yellow for the 2nd company. Zed1http://www.blogger.com/profile/18302942452019559750noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5486723542975350091.post-8697721804397075112018-05-03T14:13:00.001-07:002018-05-03T14:13:13.693-07:00Update: Garde d'HonneurHello friends!<br />
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I'm currently working on a dozend of different Garde d'honneur units. Interestingly, on most uniform plates, I just find an infantryman. Sometimes together with a drummer or officer, in some cases together with a cavalryman. Point is: except from one case, I didn't find different uniforms within the same unit. This might be because the Garde d'honneur units were sort of city protection militia and therefore not organized in the structures of the army regiments, where you had fusiliers, voltigeurs and grenadiers.<br />
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Today, I'm ready to present you four units from four different cities. There are more about to come, don't you worry.<br />
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First one is the Garde d'honneur of the city of Perpignan. This city is located on the mediterranean coast, near to the border with Spain in a Region called Roussilon or Northern Catalonia. It's quite possible that this militia unit could have been involved in the Peninsular war.<br />
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In fact, this is the first experiment that I had done with twisted bicorns. As you know, I only use a single HaT-set for this project. Most Garde d'honneur units that I have found on uniform plates showed them wearing the bicorn hat cross-wise. Unfortunately, the set contains no figure doing so. The only figure wearing a bicorn is the officer - but he wears it length-wise. Therefore, I had to separate the head, then cut it away from the bicorn. I found out that the bicorn only fits cross-wise on grenadier heads - the fusiliers are shaped in a not suitable way. Nevertheless, it works - the result of the swap-heads-and-headdress-operation looks pretty convincing.<br />
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Lyon is a big city in southeastern France, not much away from the border to Switzerland.<br />
I like this standing figure very much, although it's not very easy to remove the grenadier head with it's bearskin hat that is awkwardly attached to the musket. But it's worth the work.<br />
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Next is a guardsman from Calais. The city of Calais is located on the channel coast in the upper northeastern part of France, close to Belgium. Most people know Calais because of it's port and the ferries that sail off from Calais towards Dover on the British islands. Dudes like this guy would most probably not only have to guard the city, but watch the coastline for smugglers and British spies... whatever. I made the strings on the right shoulder out of small tissue paper stripes dipped into wood glue. the brass object on the guys' breast seems to be a whistle. At least it looked like that on the plate I used.<br />
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The last example is a man of the garde d'honneur of the city of Tours. This city is located in central France and has an interesting history. In fact, you should google for it. In the Napoleonic context, there's not much to say about this unit - but I like the colours. Blue and yellow looks really splendid, especially in combination with white gloves and trousers.<br />
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Well. So much for today. Stay tuned to see another row of honourable honour guards at a later time. Hope you enjoyed - oh, and if you're located anywhere in range of the Dutch city of Arnhem: don't forget to visit <b>FIGZ 2018</b>, the 1/72 miniature and wargaming event. See more under <a href="http://www.figz.nl/">www.figz.nl</a> - it's taking place on June 3rd, just a month ahead from now!<br />
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<br />Zed1http://www.blogger.com/profile/18302942452019559750noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5486723542975350091.post-7700562405888342732018-04-23T11:47:00.001-07:002018-04-23T11:47:14.549-07:0016th United States line infantry regimentHi folks, here I am again!<br />
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As I'm currently working on some gardes d'honneur, I like to show you something rather unusual in the 1/72 plastic business - that means at least here in Germany where I live. When we Euros here '1812', most of us think about Napoleons invasion in Russia, that bloody campaign that cost hundreds of thousands European soldiers their lives. Probably we also think about the Pensinsular war in Spain. What most of us don't even consider is that far in the West, there was also a war going on - the 'war of 1812'.<br />
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For figure painters and wargamers, this scenario has one big advantage: you need only British figures. US-American and British-Canadian uniforms were in most cases (except some militia units and some unique regiments like the Canadian Voltigeurs) nearly the same. Which is especially the case in a small scale like 1/72 where you wouldn't be able to recognize the differences anyway.<br />
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So - I bought me a box of Strelets marching British infantry. It did me a favour especially because it has a flagbearer with a banner flying brightly in the sky - great for painting it whatever you like. After looking at the uniform posters, I decided to go and paint these figures with the uniform colours of the 16th US line infantry regiment. Hope you enjoy the pictures. <br />
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For many of the early war US units, the old stove-pipe-shako would be the choice of the day. So have a look onto the uniform posters to find out which unit wore which sort of shako at which time. In addition, some regiments changed jacket colours during the war - for example starting with a brown jacket early in the campaign, later switching to a grey one. For this unit, the Belgian shako fits just fine.<br />
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The backside of the troop. In the middle, you can see troopers wearing the blue coated backpack. I wonder if there was a consistent regulation on that matter, because on the basis of looking to uniform plates, paintings and reenactor pictures, I couldn't find out which units wore the black backpack, the covered one, even several sorts of backpacks seemed to have been used, some with coat on top of them, sometimes slung around, sometimes I saw no coat at all... pretty confusing.<br />
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The Strelets figures do a real good job, I like them a lot. The only thing about them are the muskets - they're still a wee bit too thick to look fine. <br />
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By the way - I found several examples that officers wore blue uniforms while the ensigns and the troopers wore the distinctive colours of the regiment. <br />
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I still have a couple of British infantry figures on my desk - which means that I will show you a couple of colour variations in a future blogpost. For sure.<br />
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<br />Zed1http://www.blogger.com/profile/18302942452019559750noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5486723542975350091.post-3031724567371004122018-03-24T08:11:00.000-07:002018-03-24T08:11:04.210-07:00Strelets Highlanders standing at easeOkay - finally, I've finished my little vignette of Highland infantry standing at ease. Here come the boys...<br />
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So here they are. Scots of the 78th regiment ('ross-shire buffs'). I think that Strelets has done a very good job on these chaps. Really nice figures.<br />
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Here are some close-ups. The figures themselves are reasonably detailed. I know that the backpacks have side pouches which are historically not correct. Plus the muskets are a field of business where the sculptor still has to do some practice - personally, I think they look too thick, more like arquebuses. But apart from that, there's nothing wrong with these figures.<br />
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Here's a pic from the backside. Although it was pretty time-consuming to paint this small bunch of infantry, it was worth the efford. I thought that a group of highlanders like these would look absolutely stunning and I didn't get disappointed. The result is an addition to my collection that makes me very, very glad. <br /><br />
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<br />Zed1http://www.blogger.com/profile/18302942452019559750noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5486723542975350091.post-81696271624840208852018-03-16T09:51:00.000-07:002018-03-16T15:00:34.247-07:00Did I...?Hi there!<br />
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Skirmishing Austrian Hussars from <a href="http://franznap.jigsy.com/">Franznap</a>. Really nice figures. Plastic figure producers tend to make cavalry units in full charge - but that was, especially in case of the light cavalry, not their exclusive role on the battlefield. Hussars were mainly used for patrol and scout duties, as well as skirmishing. Therefore, these poses here show a very realistic approach to these chaps.<br />
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Zed1http://www.blogger.com/profile/18302942452019559750noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5486723542975350091.post-46182570676962929082018-03-02T13:32:00.002-08:002018-03-02T13:32:31.903-08:00Short notice: a desk full of miniatures...Phew. Pretty busy I am. Not much time for painting I have. Bad this is.😀<br />
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My desk is currently filled with lines of soldiers. In fact, I'm trying to brush up at least the half of my Strelets Scots in order to have enough figures for a small vignette. Very time consuming because of all these details. To give you a little highlight, I decided to show you the flagbearer and the bagpiper - two really great figures.<br />
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A bit lesser spectacular, nonetheless being nice figures, are the line infantrymen of Baden. I have a couple of these figures here, they're from Franznap who makes astonishingly great miniatures. In fact, these figures were lying here for a year or so. Time to have them completed. Here's three of them as a small preview.<br />
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It's that sort of business that I usually don't like - painting larger numbers of figures of the same sort bores me out very quickly, especially because painting sessions become 'paint 12 backpacks in grey, anthrazit and black and then turn to paint a dozend plumes'-sort of thing. Well. I started it. Must finish it.<br />
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I hope to present you the completed results soon. <br />
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Zed1http://www.blogger.com/profile/18302942452019559750noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5486723542975350091.post-61396199000795460212018-02-16T12:37:00.001-08:002018-02-16T12:37:03.861-08:00Austrian UlansI just noted that I have a few things that I have in my cabinet which haven't been posted here.<br />
One of these are Austrian Ulans from <a href="http://franznap.jigsy.com/SHOP#!/Cavalry/c/10028382/offset=0&sort=normal">Franznap</a> which actually were a gift from Francesco Messori, the artist who has sculpted these figures.<br />
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There were several regiments of Ulans in the Austrian army during the Napoleonic era. Lancers were actually pretty popular among many European armies of that time. As light cavalry, they fulfilled many roles. Therefore, these chaps were not only equipped with lance and sabre, but also with firearms.<br />
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The main difference between the Ulan regiments was the colour of the Czapka helmets. The depicted regiment, No.2 (Fuerst [sovereign] zu Schwarzenberg), had Czapkas in green colours.<br />
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The set contains four mounted figures. The weapon arm - in one case the lance itself - are delivered separately, which makes the fixing of the flag easier. Taking into account the many different poses that can be achieved by attaching different arms in different positions and mounting different figures on different horses, you can create a really huge cavalry force in which every rider looks somewhat different.<br />
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Personally, I don't like to paint cavalry too much - it it more time consuming then painting infantry, painting horses gives me the creeps. Nevertheless, I can only say that these are magnificient miniatures. Easy to paint, highly detailed.<br />
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For the wargamer records, this is a unit that can be used for many scenarios. One squad fought at Austerlitz, the regiment at Essling, Aspern and Wagram. During the 1813/14-campaign, it fought at Hanau, St.Croix, Brienne, Troyes, Bar-sur-Aube and Arcis-sur-Aube. It was not in battle in 1815. <br />
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<br />Zed1http://www.blogger.com/profile/18302942452019559750noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5486723542975350091.post-58332439785570358412018-02-10T08:33:00.000-08:002018-02-10T08:33:03.691-08:00Boston Hussars When I read about the configuration of the US army from the period of the 1812 war, I was surprised to read that it consisted far more of infantry then the European armies did. Actually, the regular army only had around two regiments of dragoons and that was it. Most cavalry units on the US side came from the state militias and, again, that cavalry mainly consisted of dragoons. Boston, located at the Massachusetts Bay, at that time was - according to the 1810 census - the 4th largest city of the United States of America with a population of around 34000 people. Massachusetts obviously had a style of it's own - among the units that they sent into battle, was the only Hussar unit that participated in the war of 1812 on the US side.<br />
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The Hussars of Boston were equipped in 1810 in a sort of mixture of Prussian-hussar and French guard-hussar style by Josiah Quincy and were formed as elite militia cavalry. This unit existed until 1818, but it didn't see much of a battle as far as I have read. But the Hussar phenomenon wasn't over then - there were four other regiments that existed in the US army system - the Georgia Hussars for example existed until 1867.<br />
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I first discovered the Boston hussars on a unitorm page on www.theminiaturespage.com among the units of the Massachusetts militia. For a while I tried to convert other hussar miniatures, but always found that there were some features that were simply differing too much from European hussar uniforms & equipment in order to be replaced or imitated just by converting and mixing some European hussar figures. Next step was the try to re-model the required parts with greenstuff, but after all, even that proved impractical.<br />
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I finally became convinced that it would be the wisest way to make a complete new figure by. scratch - unfortunately, I'm a total loser when it comes to figure modelling. So I contacted the guys at www.hagen-minatures.de and placed my very first order for a brand new figure. The master can be seen on <a href="http://historyin172.blogspot.de/2017/06/a-boston-hussar-1812.html">http://historyin172.blogspot.de/2017/06/a-boston-hussar-1812.html</a> - it has been created by Massimo Costa. If you like to have one, you can order the Boston Hussar miniature at <a href="http://www.hagen-miniatures.de/index.php/en/component/jshopping/product/view/374/2239">Hagen's shop</a>.<br />
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That uniform colour in addition with the other features makes a splendid little miniature. It wears the great dress - but with a sharp scalpel you could easily cut away all that decorating stuff on the trousers in order to switch it to the field dress look. I'll do that with one of my Boston hussar figures in a while. ;-) <br />
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<br />Zed1http://www.blogger.com/profile/18302942452019559750noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5486723542975350091.post-88127648719928458392018-01-15T11:46:00.002-08:002018-01-15T11:51:38.008-08:00Some impressions: Strelets Brits'n Scots<b>Hello and all the best wishes for 2018 to you all!</b><br />
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Today I want to show you what keeps me busy at the moment so that my posting ratio has plummeted to the bottom.<br />
It's the new Strelets British line infantry (on the march) and the Highland infantry (standing at ease). I bought both sets to try them out and see if the new generation of Strelets figures is really that nice as it looked on the web.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Trooper, modified to US infantry for the war of 1812</td></tr>
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One thing is for sure: the figures have improved a lot. Some years ago, Strelets figures had a bad reputation among many miniature painters. They often lacked correct proportions and moulding quality often wasn't that good, resulting in figures that had 'unequal' sides. When I bought their knights, I often ended up with rather goblinesque or two-face-like miniatures. Every set contained a handful of rather useless figs. But that's not the case with these chaps here. Sculpting quality has improved hell of a lot - these Brits look better then many other plastic figures on the market.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This uniform represents the 16th line infantry regiment</td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td></tr>
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I mainly bought the British infantry to convert them into various US infantry uniforms for the war of 1812. It's easy because the uniforms are generally the same - cut off the epaulettes, reshape the shako plate and cords a bit and there you go. Backpacks can be converted to the blue overcoat version, but mustn't. All that easy. And the uniforms contain a wide range of grey, black, brown and blue. Nice.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Here's another conversion for the war of 1812</td></tr>
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The only issue I have with those figures, are the muskets. In some cases, they look a bit arquebus-style. That's were Strelets still have to learn a bit - make them guns a bit more slender and everything is fine. <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Called the "Ross Shire Buffs", the regiments companies fought in various war theatres</td></tr>
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The Scots, in fact, are a challenge of their own. The figures - again with the musket issue, but in lesser numbers, are quite splendid. I like that modelling very much. But all these tartans... I mean - it's dozens of figures in tartans. It'll take me a real long time to finish all of these buddies. This one here is complete, 14 others are on 70%, but the rest isn't even primed...<br />
...any condolences? No? Blimey....<br />
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Whatever. It's fun painting them and hopefully, I'll live long enought to get them finished, so what?<br />
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<b>Happy new painting year, friends!</b><br />
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Zed1http://www.blogger.com/profile/18302942452019559750noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5486723542975350091.post-45550489652368255552017-12-27T06:08:00.002-08:002017-12-27T06:08:20.723-08:00Another year is almost gone. :-)Hello, my friends!<br />
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Not much left of 2017. Time to make a personal figure check up, eh?<br />
I hope that you all had enjoyable holidays and that your year was good, as well.<br />
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My year was pretty cool. It started with playing a background role in an opera (no singing involved, luckily), starting an interesting assignment at a lawyer's office, then quitting again when a far more interesting opportunity showed up in September. Changing my job twice this year, acting at the opera and writing my second novel took plenty of time. This resulted in far lesser blog entries this year. Nevertheless, I still enjoy miniature painting very much.<br />
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I have finished one figure setup for my long-term project recently. It's the command figures for my Isembourg regiment.<br />
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Bright blue. Really nice.<br />
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There's some stuff that I have painted this year but haven't presented on the blog yet. This is mainly because I haven't put them onto bases yet. I'm not quite sure how to assemble the war of 1812 american infantry. For example. But time will show. Or better said: I'll show them to you when it's the right time. :-)<br />
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Complete my Russian hussar
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Complete the SU100 vignette with
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<li>Baden Jagers - 8 figures</li>
<li>Isemburg command - 2 figures</li>
<li>1812 American and Canadian infantry - 13 figures</li>
<li>1812 US line infantry - 29 figures</li>
<li>Italian infantry of different units - 8</li>
<li>Dutch infantry - 1 figure</li>
<li>French infantry - 31 figures</li>
<li>Spanish infantry - 1 figure</li>
<li>figures for contests - 8 figures</li>
<li>British infantry - 2 figures </li>
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So that's a total of 103 figures. Less then last year.<br />
Which means that I don't plan too high in numbers for 2018.<br />
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Plans are:<br />
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<li>complete the Baden figures</li>
<li>eventually finish the Russian hussar display</li>
<li>complete all Strelets Highlanders (at ease) which I bought recently</li>
<li>paint the Dutch light infantry for having a complete unit overview of Kingdom-of-Holland infantry for this year's FIGZ</li>
<li>complete all figures for my 'deserters' project</li>
<li>finish the Boston hussars on my desk</li>
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That's not quite a lot. I guess it's better then starting with ambitions that I - as every year - won't be able to fullfill.<br />
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Zed1http://www.blogger.com/profile/18302942452019559750noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5486723542975350091.post-66869356903824361572017-12-20T22:38:00.001-08:002017-12-20T22:38:16.567-08:00More men behind the lines - the Gardes d'honneurWhen I discovered the departmental reserve troop system, I had already stumbled accross the Guards of Paris as a unit. In one of them articles, there was a remark that 'they had been in larger scale, what the honour guards had been for the smaller cities'. So I started to find out what that meant. <br />
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During my research, I found an old book on the public database of the Toulouse biblioteque. (<a href="http://numerique.bibliotheque.toulouse.fr/cgi-bin/superlibrary?e=d-100off-general--00-2--0----0-10-TE--4-------0-1l--10fr-Zz-1---16-text---00-3-1-00-0-0-01-0utfZz-8-00----&a=d&d=/ark:/74899/B315556101_RB19_0068.1#.WjtL13kiGUk">Book: Gardes d'honneur)</a> <br />
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And there they were - a whole lot of new uniform pictures that I had to put into my Pre-Bardin-uniform project, which backlashed to more then a hundred uniforms yet to be painted.<br />
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Large cities had to setup such guards for the means of internal security. They served as protectors of the cities' officials and the city infrastructure. They guarded roads and streets as well as public public buildings. Larger cities tended to have their own city guards since medieval times. Under Napoleon, they mainly had these guards because the larger cities had the financial capabilities to pay for their security on their own accounts.<br />
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And as long as they had to pay them all by themselves, the city officials were relatively free to decide about the look of their city guards - not the equipment, which was same as it was for the standing army. Some of these uniforms looked really flamboyant, while other cities decided to put their men into rather conservative coloured cloth.<br />
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By the means of battle readyness, one might consider these troops as militia. I haven't found much evidence of city guards that were placed on the field in a real fight, except when their cities came under siege. Zed1http://www.blogger.com/profile/18302942452019559750noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5486723542975350091.post-64043631592098481142017-12-06T11:12:00.002-08:002017-12-06T11:12:27.505-08:00The 'Garde municipale de Paris'Paris, being the heart of France, always had it's very own guards. After the revolution, this guard went through several stages of organization, slowly deteriorating in men and functionality in the latest years of the 1790s. Therefore, the Garde municipale de Paris (or 'Guards of Paris', as I'll call them from now on) where created by personal decree from Napoleon Bonaparte himself in 1802.<br />
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Members of this troop had to fullfill some interesting criteria: they had to be between 30 and 40 years old, more then 1.65m tall, able to read and write and (!) they should have to be involved in at least five army campaigns. In other words: the Guards of Paris where not some background police dudes hanging around, they were real war veterans.<br />
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Their duties were the same as for the Gardes d'honneur in major cities or the Departemental reserves - they were responsible for inner security, guarded governmental infrastructure, patrolled in the streets, guarded prisons, city gates and protected governmental officials. <br />
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The Guards of Paris were organized in two demi-brigades, totally 2154 men strong.What is a bit tricky about this unit is the uniform documentation. Due to several sources claiming this or that configuration for the same time frame, it's a bit hard to say how the uniforms really looked like at this or that time. Although the general colours are of no doubt at all, this problem mostly is about cuff shapes and bearskin/shakos. Therefore, I had to decide for a certain variation in case of the tirailleur/voltigeur figure.<br />
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The basic uniform colour of the 1st regiment was green with red cuffs'n collar. The 2nd regiment wore it's uniform with the same colours the other way 'round. For the drummers, I basically found two versions: the one with the golden rims and the reverse-colours version. Well.<br />
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In 1806, both uniforms received white uniforms. Sitting at the center of the distribution chain, it is confirmed that they really got those uniforms. The distinctive colour of each regiment - red or green - remained. After the white uniforms were abandoned, they switched back to the old ones (what a waste of money, eh?). <br />
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What makes this unit interesting for wargamers is that here you have a 'militia' or 'city guard' unit with veteran status. Plus it makes a bright and colourful appearance. <br />
<br />The Guards of Paris were active on the battlefields from 1806 to 1812. Two batallions were involved in the campaign against the Netherlands and later took part in the occupation of Hamburg. In 1807, they took part in the siege of Danzig and the battle of Friedland. Detachements of the guards also fought in the battle of Alcolea, Bailen and Burgos in Spain.<br /><h3>
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In 1812, the Guards of Paris got involved in the coup d'etat led by general de Malet. The coup was quickly put down, the guard's colonel and his staff were shot and the Guards of Paris were disbanded. The infantry was used to reassemble the former 134th line infantry regiment, which later took part in the battles in Germany throughout 1813, were it was utterly destroyed. <br />Zed1http://www.blogger.com/profile/18302942452019559750noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5486723542975350091.post-38579272167141093242017-11-25T14:58:00.000-08:002017-11-25T14:58:48.859-08:00The men behind the lines - French departmental reserves of the Napoleonic era<span lang="de">Okay. Let's learn something, shall we? This is going to be a long read, but it contains a lot of information about another not-so-usual aspect of the Napoleonic French military. </span><br />
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<span lang="de">When I started my 'paint all units in PreBardin-style uniforms'-project, I thought it was all about painting battlefield military units. Well - after a while I learned that I was totally wrong. I come from a country where you have the army on one side and the police on the other side. While the army is responsible for protecting the country against foreign enemies, the police is responsible for internal security. One side carries the big guns'n'stuff while the other one is equipped in order to deal with criminals, riots and keeping up public security.</span><br />
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<span lang="de">Back in the days of Napoleon Bonaparte, this wasn't the case in the same way throughout Europe. In many states, the king or local nobles payed for armed units that served as a militia which local nobles or representatives sent out to carry out police-like duties. This 'state militia' was the root from which the gendarmerie evolved, a paramilitary force that - in wartimes - often was used as light cavalry or horseback infantry. In other states, this function was carried out by the king's guards.</span><br />
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<span lang="de">When I first discovered that there was something like a reserve army in behind of the line army of Napoleon's France, I was really puzzled. I read about 'reserve regiments' especially in the Prussian post-1812 army organisation structure, but the French counterpart wasn't only about creating regiments that were just for filling the gaps in the field army's ranks, the French departmental reserves were an armed body that carried out actual tasks. </span><br />
<span lang="de">For the project, things got even worse when I found out that the larger cities also had their own military units, called 'Garde d'Honneur' - and that these also had their very own uniforms. So there was an army behing the army behind the army.</span><br />
<span lang="de">When I already thought to have painted most units, the number raised up again. Oh. My. Goodness.</span><br />
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<span lang="de">As there were so many of these companies, painting them one by one would have shot the number of necessary drummer and officer figures under the ceiling, resulting in buying boxes of figures just for getting enough of just two figure types. On the other hand, I thought that people would like to see the system in behind of the different uniform colours. So the idea was born to put one figure per company onto one display. But making the groundwork for a marching block of more then 30 figures was a nightmare - and that's why I just finished this project a few days ago after a period of at least eight months from which I finished the last of these figures. Now here it is. </span><br />
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<span lang="de">By decree of May 1805, France created reserve companies for the internal security business of the countrie's departements. The size of the specific companies differed according to the population size and financial power of each departement. Actually, these companies were positioned somewhere between the gendarmes and the regular troops. Their duties were the protection of the justice apparatus and key infrastructure (prisons, prefectures, archives, depots) plus being a guard for official representatives. With having the reserve companies under their command, regional governors, who were the local representatives of the emperor's authority, received their very own armed force. </span><br />
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<span lang="de">To build up that reserves, the total number of conscripts of each year was split up - while one part went to the regulars, the others went to the reserve companies. The other way round, conscripts that didn't perform well in the reugular regiments were send to the reserve and vice versa. Officers were either retirees from the line regiments or magistrates. </span><br />
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<span lang="de">Being in the reserve nevertheless meant being a soldier - laws and regulations were the same. The prefects as commanders were responsible for the quality, morale and payment of their troops and had to write regular reports about troop conditions to the ministry in Paris. Nevertheless, reserve recruits were not to expect medals and a military career. The daily business of the reserves was guarding buildings and roads, catching deserters, guard prisoners and protect public officials. Apart from that, regular exercise and weapon training guaranteed that the reserves were always able to fill up the ranks of the line regiments. </span><br />
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<span lang="de">The departemental reserves were no doubt being considered to be real soldiers. Some reserve companies even went into direct combat, for example in the Peninsula or to counter the landing of British troops in the Walcheren area. Eastern departemental companies took part in the fighting during the 1814 campaign on French soil. In Napoleon's view, the reserves were a big pool of supply for the grande armee. Every now and then, hundreds of men were drawn away by the emperor's decree in order to fill up the losses of the line regiments or even to build up new regiments. </span><br />
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<span lang="de">By 1807, bicornes were replaced by shakos. Due to decree of 1808, the blue uniform was replaced by a white one, but in the same way as this was handled in the regular army, the colour was switched back to blue again without many companies even having received the new uniforms. As I found no documentation on which company actually got a white dress, I decided not to paint them at all. </span><br />
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<span lang="de"><br /></span>Zed1http://www.blogger.com/profile/18302942452019559750noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5486723542975350091.post-26310212686488150512017-11-18T23:35:00.001-08:002017-11-18T23:35:34.688-08:00Bodyguards - the Velites de TurinTo strengthen his reign, Napoleon Bonaparte put a lot of his relatives onto European thrones. Sometimes, there had be certain arrangements to be made to secure them. At least, so it seems if you look at the Velites de Turin.<br />
They were created in March 1809 as a battalion in order to protect prince Borghese, Napoleons brother-in-law, who served as governor-general for the French departments in northern Italy. <br />
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Having guard status and officially being part of the Imperial guard, they wore guard uniforms. Originally, most of the ranks were build up with Italian men while the officers came directly from the French guard grenadiers.<br />
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The Velites de Turin fought actively in the battle of Leipzig, mainly in the covering of the French retreat. They were also actively fighting during the campaign of 1814. <br /><br />
<br />Zed1http://www.blogger.com/profile/18302942452019559750noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5486723542975350091.post-1182279314993995912017-11-05T03:35:00.002-08:002017-11-05T03:35:55.260-08:00Guards of VeniceWell - here we have something rather off-line again. And things will - I promise - get even worse regarding the diversity of this Pre-Bardin uniform thing. I discovered a new book that brought up a whole new aspect that I didn't have on screen until now. And it brings new uniforms, new units... gosh... if I knew that before...<br />
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Venice, a former big European player during the centuries which had declined into a local player when Napoleon showed up, brought in it's very own guard unit when the army of the Kingdom of Italy was formed. Here it is:<br />
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Doesn't look spectacular, I know.<br />
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For the statistics, I have now painted 313 figures representing more then 60 different units. That's about 120 left to be painted - if I don't find more units. <br />
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<br />Zed1http://www.blogger.com/profile/18302942452019559750noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5486723542975350091.post-16117298340327495612017-10-24T10:07:00.001-07:002017-10-24T10:07:56.318-07:00Veterans of RomeHere's another unusual unit represented for my Pre-Bardin-uniform project. It's a soldier of the Veterans of Rome.<br />
I found this uniform in a book filled with old Knoetel uniform plates. Napoleon annexed the Papal States in 1810, following a number of disputes with the pope. At this time, the Papal State army was considered to be the most worthless of the continent. Whoever was found worthy of serving in a regular unit, was transferred to the regiments of the Kingdom of Italy.<br />
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However, there was still a bunch of men left - and as it was considered to have these people rather in a uniform and under some sort of control then having these men roaming the streets, the battalion 'Veterans of Rome' were raised as a military unit for local security purposes.<br />
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If used in wargaming scenarios, I would say that this unit is merely militia with a minus on morale and combat abilities. Zed1http://www.blogger.com/profile/18302942452019559750noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5486723542975350091.post-35781034139422456782017-10-13T11:30:00.001-07:002017-10-13T11:30:31.905-07:00Dutch Corps Israelieten - and a historical remarkIn 1808, King Louis Bonaparte, ruler of the Kingdom of Holland by the hands of Napoleon Bonaparte himself, made a decision to raise an infantry unit exclusively from the jewish population of 'his' country.<br />
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The unit raised up to regimental status, although it suffered from never getting enough recruits. It was dressed in the same uniform as the 2nd light infantry regiment - the only difference was the shako plate, showing the letters 'CI' for 'corps israeliten'.<br />
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I wasn't able to find out what the main reason for creating this unit really was - some write it was because of the special jewish nutrition, some write it was all about promoting jewish citizens' rights. Whatever it was, as far as I was able to find out, the Israelites Corps never saw actually any battle and was disbanded in 1810, it's soldiers were put into other regular infantry regiments. <br />
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Because of this short lifespan, the regiment remains one of the oddities of the Napoleonic era, although all-jewish regiments had already been in service in Russia and Poland in the late 1780s. Receiving citizen's rights due to the Napoleonic juristictional reforms that took place in many French dominated countries, jews began to join the armies, although it seems that not many of them were actually recorded. Or perhaps it was something that noone ever documented very well.<br />
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When Prussia joined the Coalition forces in the liberation wars against Napoleon, jews had been given citizen's rights in Prussia as well. This led to hundreds of young Prussian jews joining the army, although an exclusively jewish unit never had been established.<br />
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I find this matter really interesting. In the archives of the 'jewish history' of the city were I grew up, you can find this picture:<br />
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These are jewish citizens who fought for the Kaiser during WW1. The man on the left must be a NCO who has been decorated with an Iron Cross. In fact, thousands of jewish men fought on the German side during the first world war. They were as patriotic as their christian comrades were and the merits they earned during the 'Great war' later led many of them to the fatal mistake that even a Nazi government would never commit atrocities to the former brave soldiers. Zed1http://www.blogger.com/profile/18302942452019559750noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5486723542975350091.post-35036678371207358262017-06-26T14:24:00.003-07:002017-06-26T14:24:45.787-07:00Re-start the whole photo thingie...Hello and welcome back!<br />
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Well. I've been busy painting things for the FIGZ which I then wasn't able to take part to. Blame me. At least I have some entries for next years' competitions. One should always see the positive side of the story, right?<br />
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Well. I have a new job and some new private issues and a second book to complete and not much time for painting. Next thing is that I have mostly painted things I'd like to have complete before showing them here. That is, for example, the display with all French reserve infantry regiment representatives or, on the other hand, a US infantry line for the 1812 theatre. For the first, I have completed all the figures, but not the groundwork of the base, for the second, there are still 13 infantrymen that I need to complete. So... well. I have done something.<br />
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With completing the officer and drummer for Italian light infantry, I've finished the light infantry units for my pre-Bardin uniform project. I'll do the veterans and the Venetians next, so that my Italian army will soon be complete.<br />
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To compensate my photography troubles, I have now invested some money and bought myself a small transparent photo tent. I'm still in the experimental stage - it will take me some time to find out which positioning and lighting brings the best results. But as far as now, I'm pretty satisfied with my first snapshots. Well... the inlay needs to be either flattened or replaced with something smoother, but the overall snapshot result looks far more pretty than what I was able to achieve during the last months - which was, to be honest, one of the reasons why I stopped making photos at all. When the summer set in, the large trees in front of my windows filtered every sunlight replacing it with a smooth greenish light. Which is, in fact, a catastrophy if you want to make good photos.<br />
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For example, this is a closeup of a casualty figure. Please feel free to tell me what you think about the photo quality. Every hint is welcome. ;-)<br />
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When I've found out how to use this photo tent in its' best way, I'll take up my pre-Bardin Nappies and make a complete set of new pictures and then, I will refurbish the complete project catalogue. :-)<br />
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<br />Zed1http://www.blogger.com/profile/18302942452019559750noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5486723542975350091.post-68776871946643368772017-04-24T21:41:00.000-07:002017-04-24T21:41:52.843-07:00Another Baden snapshotThe last few weeks flew away and I'm still not sure where they went to so fast. In the meantime, I have finished something for the competitions at this years FIGZ which is about to take place in Arnhem on the 4th of June. Yeah - plenty of time, I know, but it's always feeling comfortable to be done with the homework early enough.<br />
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The next thing was to continue with my Baden Jagers. After finishing these, I have 4 figures from that set left which are almost complete. Next task will be to paint them two sets of fusiliers.<br />
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Well - although it's all about green, green, grey, black and only a bit of white and gold, I still love these chaps and their uniforms. In fact, it's quite a good thing that they come without backpacks because usually, they cover the largest part of the figures backside so that you see lesser of the uniform colour. In case of the French for example, I always asked myself why they were called 'le bleu' when most what you can see is actually white...<br />
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The jager on the left side is one of these figures that allows a bit of conversion because both arms are separate. This figure is support to reload his rifle, but he also looks good as a spotter, doesnt't he? <br />
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The most cool pose of them all is that of the officer. Francesco made a really great job on that figure. With that hand on his back, sword held ready and a slightly snobbish look on his face, he makes a realistic look of an officer supervising his soldiers.<br />
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In addition you have that great sergeant. One of the advantages of Franznap's sets is that all figures of a set work together very well, no matter what combination you chose.<br />
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Now I have the Jagers ready, I have the Austrian infantry and the largest number of Austrian cavalry ready, it's about to start with the fusiliers. When I have all these figures painted, I can start to assemble the diorama.<br />
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Things take time. Good things take longer time. ;-)Zed1http://www.blogger.com/profile/18302942452019559750noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5486723542975350091.post-10690895746473061202017-03-24T11:16:00.001-07:002017-03-24T11:16:31.432-07:00Pre-Bardin uniform project: heavy carvingToday, I present you some plastics hardcore carving results. I'm still not finished with my project to paint all possible units that wore the French pre-Bardin style infantry uniform by using the same HaT set - but at least, I'm getting near to finish one of the biggest of Napoleon's allies - the units of the Kingdom of Italy.<br />
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Among them, I found two units that brought me to a certain challenge. Both uniforms share a greyish vest/trouser colour that is not that often seen on uniform plates. But what both have in common is the fact, that under normal duty circumstances, they certainly wouldn't have worn any backpacks. So for the first time, I had not only to remove some cords or swap a head, but had to remove a chunky part of plastic that hadn't been intended to be ever removed.<br />
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This was pretty challenging. Although the plastic of the figures is not that hard at all, it's a massive block of plastic that has to be cut off. In addition, I chose grenadiers as basic figures, which required a headswap with the fusiliers. At the first try, I underestimated the effect that - when half cut - the resistance of the plastic decreases, which ended with the scalpel blade slicing halfway through the tip of my left hand's thumb. Ouch<br />
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But after all, I managed to scrape off the backbacks. You can't just slice it away, you must also try to achieve the overall shape of how the soldier's back would look like, including a little bit of texture which looks like belts etc.<br />
Well - the final result looks pretty nice to me and was worth the work .<br />
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The first example is a soldier of the medic company standing guard - for example while guarding a field hospital. Brown, light grey, white and black... I really like the combination of the colours. In addition, this is a rather unusual subject because you seldomly see units that are not directly battle-related. <br />
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When you see this figure from a small distance, it appears as if the backpack has never been there. :-D<br />
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The second one is is a galley guard. These chaps were the sentinels who guarded the convicts who had to row the galleys that some nations in the Mediterranean region still used in the Napoleonic age.<br />
Working on a ship, this guy logically has no need for a backpack at all. So I had to remove it for him as well. In addition I decided to make the base look as if the figure was standing on deck, right in front of the guardrail.<br />
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I always liked that green of the Italian uniforms - in addition with light grey cuffs'n collar, trousers and vest, this figure looks really pretty. Although you wouldn't see those guys on a battlefield at all.<br />
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In both cases, I wasn't able to find representations of drummers or officers. In case of the galley guards, I found out that they were subordinated to the navy staff of officers and had no own officer's staff at all. In case of the medics... well, I don't know. Maybe someone else might help me?Zed1http://www.blogger.com/profile/18302942452019559750noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5486723542975350091.post-41626395826841900202017-03-09T07:23:00.001-08:002017-03-09T07:23:08.365-08:00US generic flag for 1812Well - I found that it is quite hard to find suitable sources for the different line regiment flags of the US Army of 1812-14. Or maybe I'm just not looking in the right corner of the web? I bought a set of the new Strelets British marching infantry because I like Strelets figures, I wanted to make some paint conversions for the war of 1812 theatre and I wasn't able to get some HaT British. The set contains a flagbearer with a blank flag. Cutting it off in order to replace it with a printed flage would have looked silly because of the flagpole's thickness.<br />
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So after not being able to find the original flags for the 16th regiment of the line, I decided to get along with a very generic flag. Maybe you guys could tell me if that's alright or if it is problematic for a reason? Who knows how the regimental colours have looked like? Is there any good source on the web? I'm happy for every help! <br /><br />Zed1http://www.blogger.com/profile/18302942452019559750noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5486723542975350091.post-24379332900920763872017-03-04T06:50:00.002-08:002017-03-04T06:50:58.913-08:00War of 1812 specialHello, hello!<br />
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I'm still there. Don't panic. Not that I haven't painted something during February, but it was all too diverse and too many things still lay on my desk. I had been experimenting for a while, which was the fact that kept me from completing many things. Today, I have some snapshots of what I'm currently working on and that's:<br />
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<b>Soldiers of the British/US war of 1812</b><br />
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Some may say: pretty unusual stuff for someone who lives in Europe. And yes, that's right. European history has Napoleon and his wars so much in focus that you don't read much about the things that were going on in northern or southern America during the 19th century, except from the well-known American secession war, some WildWest-stuff and (if you're lucky) the Alamo (as if that wasn't just a single battle). Not to speak of the liberation and unifications wars on the Southern American continent... (total blank in German schoolbooks)<br />
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Well. Research on that matter wasn't as hard as I had expected. And due to my surprise, I found a hell of a lot different uniforms. In fact, back in 1812 even the US Army hadn't adopted a completely uniformed appearance. From grey to brown to blue to black to fawn, in the beginning of the war there was a large number of uniform colours to be seen even in the regular regiments, not to speak of all these militia units that were sent by the different states.<br />
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One thing that makes it fairly easy to make up an army for the US/British war of 1812 is the fact that both armies used pretty much the same sort of uniform and equipment. Differences, as for example the backpacks that looked different in US use (or were just the same backpacks, but covered with blue cloth that often had a 'US' or state mark on it), can be easy emulated.<br />
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I had seen on the pages of <a href="http://hagen-miniatures.de/">Hagen miniatures</a> that they offer a range of British soldiers in colonial uniforms for the early 19th century campaigns. As many units, especially in the early phase of the US/British conflict, wore these hats as well, I thought that these figures could be a good basis for my little '1812 tryout'.<br />
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At first I found out that these figures are not as hell of a much detailed as the Rifles from Hagen were (see on the right side, you can use them as light infantry (i.e. the Glengarry regiment) as well). But thinking about it again when I had the first ones painted, I don't think that this matters much too much.<br />
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First: these are still very nice metals. Not chunky, not clumsy, though not too crisp. But they have their details where you need them and will surely make a great appearance in masses on a wargaming table or in groups on a diorama.<br />
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Second: their uniforms aren't that splendid anyway. For many units, you need to trim away all the laces, slim up the cuffs, cut away the plumes etc., so all that's left is more or less a very blank uniform. <br />
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So do these figures do their job as War of 1812 militia? Yes, of course they do. And as a Napoleonics enthusiast, I can only recommend other miniature painters to give that theatre a go because what I show you here is only a slight piece of the mass of different units you could paint.<br />
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There's loads of different militia units. There's lots of different line infantry units. There's lots of colourful flags never to be seen on the European continent.<br />
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And there's a lot to be learned about the early years of US/British policies and to what this war (which is not even that much noticed in the USA itself) led concerning the development of the USA and it's neighbours. Zed1http://www.blogger.com/profile/18302942452019559750noreply@blogger.com4