"Napoleonic Austrian Hussars " Topic

Hi all!!This is my first painting entry of the year, a regiment of Austrian hussars " 4th Hessen Homburg ". Figures from Perry Miniatures.I hope you like!!:-)
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Saludos
Rafa

These are lovely – bright, dynamic & beautifully based!
Just wish there more in the regiment!
Best wishes,
Jeremy

Beautiful pieces!

incredibly well painted and excellent sculpts as well.
I like who the shakos pop out

Outstanding painting and basing. Alway lookforward to your post rafa as they are really inspirational

Kind regards
stephen

Wow – now that is a great looking unit!

Must paint them up (albeit in 6mm)

Beautifully painted, composed and based.

My favorite army and the figures are beautiful! I should not have looked.

Your usual first rate job! I haven't seen these particular castings but I have painted quite a few Perry figures for clients. Your painting (and hopefully mine) make them look a lot better than they actually are. Personally I have never seen a 28mm figure that I really loved. Why someone cannot make 28mm figures with the same beautiful proportions and accurately sized equipment that AB does with 18mm sculpts is a mystery.

Anyway – great work on your part!!

Regards,

John

Stoneman1810, can I just echo your point?

So many 28mm figures are stubby little Hobbits. Heads too big, legs too short, stocky chest and (esp for cavalry waving swords) arms that are at least as thick as their legs. Horses are dreadful. The smaller scales, even down just to 1/72, get it so much better.

Personally I think Perrys are an exception. They have disappointed, but rarely (they simply must rethink the Grenadiers a Cheval of La Garde and Dragoons ditto. The former in the bonnet de police look like something from the puppet show "International Rescue") Most of their work is superb I think and well proportioned….funnily enough their one piece castings of cavalry are increasingly proving their best work!

A dumb question. Trumpeters on Greys. I started out thinking that was universal, then learnt about British, then, just in time, about my Saxon Garde du Corps…….did Prussians, Russians, Austrians, DBs, etc etc follow the French practice? It looks so good it probably does not matter…..but it does!

Oh, and the figures above are only what I would expect…something to try to copy. I'd recommend his book!

Horse colouring is especially impressive, well done!

I collected in the past different scales 1 / 72 scale, 15 mm, 18 mm and 28 mm, each have strenghtes and pitfalls.

Eventually I mainly stick with 18 mm – due to AB and Sho Boki and 28 mm due to Perrys and Black Hussar miniatures.

Though I see the point of my esteemed colleague Deadhead is making about anatomy – I am very much inspired by how the Perrys produce figures and how inspiring they are, look at the Bavarian artillery gunner reaching with the arm into a howitzer for example, or how complete some of their lines are or how they are not intimitated by doing ranges as like Confederation of the Rhine units like Würzburg, or their Russian retreat of 1812 – really mind blowing.

Let me be totally clear, no one admires Perrys' output more than me. I stress the odd figure I really do not like is very much the exception.

I only got back into this after a 30 year gap because of my sons collecting their Lord of the Rings figures. I got involved in painting Gondor and Rohirrim and Urakhai etc etc….and was hooked!

and I have not yet forgiven you for telling me my Mameluke musicians must go on white horses. You are right….and now they are sitting there waiting for an undercoat. But, if you had never told me……..I would have been happy, my wife would have been happier still……

Funny, of the hussars above, obviously the blue shako is great, green is nicely highlighted, red is vibrant….but my favourite is the simple grey overalls. They can look like zebra stripes sometimes, these are perfection. The bases are kept "simple" and do not overpower the figures…I might try that!

Deadhead, Russia's Tsar did not officially sanction the mounting of trumpeters on white or grey horses until 1816; they rode the same coloured nags as the rest of the squadron. The reason: easy identification of 'enemy' cavalry.

Now that is a clever bit of lateral thinking! You can spot THEIR trumpeter! Brilliant…I love it

Perrys are for me state of the art – excellent research, no silly poses and no acrobatic how do I make loading a musket impossible poses, very good research an equipment as well – one clearly sees that they are not only excellent sculptors but very much into the periods they sculpt as well.

Ahhhh!!! the horse grey hahahaha!!!!!!!:-)This horse I wanted paint it in that tone"artist license" :-).I suppose the Austrian trumpeters also can have white/grey horses ;-).The following horse I'll paint it with another color.;-)))))

And many many thanks for your kind words!!

Saludos
Rafa

actually about Austrians no need to change, at least Klein as well as Kobell did paint Austrian trumpeters on white horses – now for Prussian cuirassiers, or Saxon ones, this might be different.

I went for a grey as well for my cuirassiers of 1792 – after a lot of deliberating.

Horse colours for trumpeter are a complex topic – for example Bavarian Dragoons – 2nd regiment – 1807 – trumpeter on a chestnut – however Chevaulegers – light cavalry on white horses.

Zebra striped trousers – Liam, nail on the head there.

And Perry's are nice, but imagine how much nicer they might be if anatomically correct. Franznap manages it in 1/72 so the Perrys are more than up to the task.

And Austrians – always colourful – I love what Mateus has been posting – I always find other peoples' Austrians to be inspirational. Just wish I knew how to make teh infantry look good in a simple way.