"28mm Eureka Andreas Hofer" Topic

Hey Guys,

I've posted up a few pics of my latest work, the excellent Andreas Hofer figure from Eureka. These Eureka Tyroleans are awesome figures, and a joy to paint.
Let me know what yo think.

The link is

littletinmen.blogspot.com

Can these figs be used for anything in the 1796-97 Italian campIgn?

Yep, they sure can. Eureka have specifically mentioned 1796-97 in the release notes.

really like you basing. Do you use stiflor tufts?

Nicely done!

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The figures definitely work for the 1796/97 campaign in Tyrol, which saw some desperate fighting around Spinges and other villages. In fact that's what they were designed for in the first place. Local dress didn't change in twenty years (nor in two hundred, looking at traditional gatherings today…), so giving them command figures identifiable for 1809 seems like an added bonus.
For 1796/97 the Tyroleans should be supported by Austrian regulars, while in 1809 they were largely on their own.

Thanks guys. I'm actually going to paint up some Austrian Jagers and Uhlans to support the Tyroleans. Not sure how historical the Uhlans are, but they seemed to pop up in all of the minor skirmishes.
Blucher: yep, they are silfor tufts, but 'dyed' with a light wash of GW Catchatan Green and then drybrushed with VMC pale sand.

Pardon my ignorance but what are silfor tufts? I'm just an public school graduate from Texas. :)

Thanks!

Static grass on steroids.

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Not to be critical, Dragoner, but the Tyroleans were the original Jäger (well poachers, certainly) and darn hard to beat on their home slopes. What they needed was a bit of close-order, volley-firing support on the flat bits…

Yeah I know, but i was painting them up for the Danube campaign anyuway and figured that they might be able to lend a helping hand. I've got some regular line infantry as well. I'm going from a period looking picture I found which has Hofer, Speckbacher, a Jager officer and a Fusilier officer all standing together with the Tyrolean troops behind them. So i'd be guessing that at least the odd Jager was involved.

Oh I'm not denying that there were Jäger present, probably recruiting as well as lending a hand…
In any case, your project sounds like great fun. Having visited the Tyrol a couple of years back, and found the memory of 1809 very much alive there, it's good to know that it's being kept Down Under, too!

I am using some of them as 18th C vampire hunters

A fine job!!

Pilum40… where in Texas. Houston here.

I am using some of them as 18th C vampire hunters

Indeed they have much 'diverted' potential, specially if (which I don't know) the typically 19th C. flat top of most hats can easily be sanded / filed down to a (more general and 18th C.-compatible) rounded one.
- Those in short leather breeches:
. Gebirgsjaeger for Lace Wars Imagi-Nations;
-those in breeches and stocks:
. AWI (FIW?) 'Southern' militia,
. 18th C. in 'sugar islands' (incl. in the Indian Ocean),
. Irishs of the "90 (short jackets)?
. royalist 'chouans' of French Vendee
. 'alternate' 'Fusilieros de Montana' / 'Vaudois' of Piedmont-Savoy (hat converted to tricorn?);
- those on long trousers:
. late 18th C. – early 19th C. Gulf of Mexico -Carribean (Haiti..) and Indian Ocean (Mauritius..),
. Lafitte's buccaneers,
. defenders of the Alamo…
Just a few immediate ideas -for sure others would suggest many additional possibilities.

For those prefering 1/72 plastics:
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Beautiful work!

lol Abdul these are Vampire hunters in Pangaea so anything goes!!!

What company's Bavarians would be a good fit for opponents size wise? This might be a great campaign to start up in skirmish.