"Some More Austrians (AB Figures 15mm)" Topic

My 1809 project continues apace. I'm now averaging 1-2 units per week, so only bankruptcy, blindness or death can now stop me from painting the remaining 20-odd units necessary for my Aspern-Essling Christmas game:

Grenz-Regiment 12 'Deutsch-Banat':

Grenze Artillerymen. These are actually for the 1790s, but are lovely figures, so what the heck…:

Some Hungarian Insurrection Infantry:

Infantry Regiment 50 'Stain':

Lower Austrian Landwehr:

And finally, some Austrian generals:

Great work.

Nice!

Very nice colours!

Great painting, hope you make your deadline.

Cheers all!

Crusoe, there are 'only' 12 infantry regiments, 1 hussar regiment, 2 insurrection hussar regiments, 2 grenadier brigades and a dragoon regiment left to get… :(

This activity has not gone unnoticed on the Home Front…
'OC Domestic' has noted the accumulation of new tool-boxes filled with freshly-painted lead, as well as the regular payments to a bloke named Ian… She's asked if I could go and have an affair, as it would probably be cheaper in the long-run…

they look great – I wish I would be able to paint as fast as you do.

You need a job like mine… ;)

Jemima Fawr,

I have put together a Grenz battery and used conversion. What you did there fits the bill nicely- what are they?
I would like to order some for my 1809 project-thanks!

PS- from Summerville ( IIRC the source) the Grenz batteries were run by the artillery branch with the labor from the actual Grenz unit it was attached with… so I have at least 1 (typically 2) regular Austrian artillery men to aim, plung or fire the gun.
Thus the battery is a mix of artillery figures.

MG

Cheers Greg, they're Grenze Artillery by AB Figures – in their Revolutionary Wars Austrian range. Yeah, I was going to stick a gunner on the base, but I only wanted one solitary base of them (one disadvantage of playing Napoleon's Battles, where one crew = a battery), so just went with those four figures.

The uniforms aren't strictly kosher for 1809 – they should have the later coat with standing collar and shorter tails, as well as a peak on the casquet, but they'll do at a pinch.

"You need a job like mine… ;"

RMD,
Some of us do remember your confession on how hard you work!!

Good looking units though.

I try to avoid the 'w' word if at all possible…

It's been a quiet shift, so I'm just finishing off IR 22 'Koburg' now…

I honestly don't know how 'normal' people manage to find time to paint at home.

Who are you calling normal? Outstanding Stahkanovite work ethic though…

Sorry! :(

I wasn't talking about Von Winterfeldt or Von Blucher, obviously…

as well as the regular payments to a bloke named Ian… She's asked if I could go and have an affair, as it would probably be cheaper in the long-run…

I'm spoken for. :D

Nice paint jobs BTW.

Ian

Please show a photo of all your regiments together. Looking great. Keep on keeping on and it'll be Christmas before you know it. I am painting IR 50 – 3 btns. 28mm Victrix, however. 1809 as well. Thanks for sharing.

Ian,

Are you sure? We could make beautiful music together…

Condotta, I will take some 'big' photos when I get a chance. I did actually do quite a lot of units and formations at 1:20 for General de Brigade 'back in the day', but painting large units (e.g. three battalions of Austrians at 48 figures per battalion) nearly sent me insane and stopped me painting Napoleonics for 15 years!

Now I've gone back to playing Napoleon's Battles, the smaller units and the variety of uniforms to paint keeps me interested. I can even cope with painting dozens of Austrian infantry regiments, provided there's a variety of facing colours. Here are a few of my old 1:20 units:

Jemima Fawr, if you return to this message, thanks for posting the big unit photos. Wow, they look great. I play Empire at 1:60, so a 3 btn brigade of Austrians is 'only' 48 miniatures, 18 per btn.

The more I see of such work in 15/18mm scale the more I am beginning to doubt TOTS (The One True Scale).

The Germans produce 1/72 figures with detail to die for.

My one dozen AB and Eureka figures (all I have), in this even smaller scale, have sword knots with fringes, buttons on their coats, horse harness so sharply defined that it paints itself…

They even take up far less space, to keep Mrs Deadhead happy…

Have I been wrong all along? Is this the Road to Damascus (in Biblical times I stress, safer then…….)

I like your figures and as they're painted but the ratio 1:20 or even worst 1:60 really doesn't match with the view of a real battallion. But I do understand the costs and the time needed to paint huge amount of figures (and the space); so this is my solution at a 1:1 ratio. I hope you can also like this idea

Great paintwork, well done. We played Aspern-Essling last year using Grand Battles Napoleon. A really good battle to re-fight, I wish you well :)

It doesn't look like we will be getting anymore updates on this. Jemima Fawr's account has been locked: TMP link

Interesting. JF is not in the dawghouse. Mysterious…

Could it be because he used 1790's figures for an 1808 army? Oh, the shame

That is a shame as R Mark Davies is a great guy, I'm upset about this. More of his postings can most likely be found on the General de Brigade forum, and since he is a moderator of the forum, I don't see him being locked out of there.

Bill should reconsider this, as this might be a reason I might walk away from here.

strangely despite a veryfied account still locked, let's wait and see