Analogue Hobbies painting challenge update 1

 Now then,

Heres my first entry in the challenge, 4 brigades of French infantry for Blucher. Ive had these sat in the pile of shame for a LONG time, so its great to finally have them done. I really do enjoy painting Adler miniatures, amazing crisp detail for such small models.

There is 1 legere regiment, and 3 Ligne regiments, each of 3 bns.

Each Bn is about 20 figs, and with skirmishers deployed each base is roughly 66 figures.

I have loads more of these to get done and i hope to finally get some games in with them this year.

Happy new year everyone.

Steve.

End of May Update

Now then,

May has been a productive month for me, I have managed to get alot of painting done, and also managed to get 3! games in as well.

So what did I get painted?

15mm ECW

Prince Ruperts regiment of Horse

Thomas Astons Dragoons

John Innes Dragoons

15mm Sci/Fi

These are all Khurasan Miniatures, painted up for Gruntz 15mm.

There is a full platoon there and a couple of battle suits in support.

6mm Napoleonic

 I painted up 2 new Regiments of French Ligne (line) infantry, the 105th Regiment, and the 17th regiment.

Below can be seen the core of my first French Corps. Next im going to get my Legre (light) infantry Regiment done.

The 17th has an attached artillery battery. I like to model the gun and crew onto the base, with 6mm its perfectly do-able!

All the 6mm Napoleonics for Blucher can be seen here

And finally...

A 15/18mm AB Napoleonic (Austrian Grenadier) test figure!

Really nice figure to paint but struggling with the white at this scale..

Anyway that's me for this month!

Next month ill do another brigade of 6mm French then maybe some epic, just for a change!

Cheers for looking,
Steve

Austrian I Korps Complete, Advance Guard Brigade and Hussars

Now then,

My Austrian I Korps is complete, the Advance Guard Brigade and the 10th Hussars have now been rebased and sorted out too.

The Advance Guard Brigade.

This is a mixed unit, with line infantry, cavalry and Jagers. They have a good skirmishing ability and benefit from being a mixed unit.

Here we have the 1st Jager Bn, the 6th Rosenburg Chevauxlegers, and the 1st Bn IR 10 Kheul.

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The 10th Hussars.

Here is my first Cavalry unit, those Hussar uniforms are "interesting" to paint in 6mm!

Notice the extra dice holder, because the hussars have an especially high Elan rating.

I Korps complete!

So there is the first of my 3 "regular" Korps completed. I will also be having a reserve Korps which will of course contain the Grenadiers and heavy cavalry.

All my 6mm Napoleonic stuff can be seen here

Cheers for looking,
Steve

Austrian I Korps, Other infantry...and some guns

Now then,

Here are some more of the troops that will form my Austrian army I Korps for Blucher. This time I have the more interesting infantry units, a nice change from painting white!

I have included the Korps artillery support which comes in the form of 3 batteries of Horse artillery massed together to form a grand battery.

The Vienna Volunteers. (disclaimer- The flags are incorrect, they are old 7 years war flags, I used them because I wanted them to look different....Imagine they borrowed them from a local church, where they have been hanging for years...)

These are conscripts as shown on their base label.

The 13th Grenz Regiment.

One of the few units to have a respectable skirmish rating. Alot of discussion has taken place about the quality of these troops, so ive made some conscript, and others (this one included) as trained.

The Horse Artillery.

The Austrians never had enough horses for their artillery so many of the gunners rode on the guns themselves, and were a bit slower then other nations true horse batteries.

I need to have a rethink about how im going to mark off the Artillery ammo too..... Thedice holder isnt going to work..Doh!

Next up will be the advance guard, and a regiment of Hussars!

To see them all click here

Cheers for looking,
Steve

Austrian I Korps Line Infantry

Now then,

Here is the line infantry that will form the backbone of my I Korps (in my fictional/generic) Austrian force.

It consists of 3 line regiments, each 3 battalions strong. There are 2 German Regiments and 1 Hungarian Regiment.

IR 44 Bellegarde

I have put the occasional casualty figure on the bases, as it looks like they are in the heat of battle!

On the rear is a small information strip, as well as a mini dice holder for tracking Elan in Blucher.

IR 46 Neugebauer

This unit has an attached battery of guns, so I modeled an actual gun on the base, as well as noting it on the information strip on the back.

IR 2 Erzherzog Ferdinand

This is a large Hungarian Regiment, Each of the battalions are bigger, and they are distinguished by their Blue trousers.

I may have crammed too many figures on the Hungarian bases!!

Here are all 3 line regiments, ready to take on the accursed Frenchmen!

Next ill post up some pics of the Advance Guard, Grenz, Landwher and Artillery units.

All my Napoleonics can be seen here.

Cheers for looking,
Steve

New page, Blucher in 6mm.

Now then,

I have started a new page for my ongoing 6mm Napoleonic saga. I have re-based most of my Austrians onto new big bases, and I have even started the French!

There isn't a great deal on there at the moment but as I get stuff finished off the page will fill up pretty quickly im sure!

Click on the tap at the top, or just click here

Cheers for looking,
Steve

Austrian Landwehr

Now then,

The first painting of the new year!

Carneville Friekorps.

Carneville Hussars

The Carneville Freiorps were the smallest unit in the Austrian army, I have boosted them up, reasoning that I havent got enough militia units, so it doesnt really matter....

Hussars are a small cavalry unit, and the jagers are classed as a standard sized unit.

The Prague City Landwher. I dont think this unit was involved in the fighting on the Danube in 1809, however I had models spare and this unit fits! Its also something a bit different.

The Vienna Volunteers. I have done 2 Bns of these. I have used a bit of artistic licence on the flags. I have used SYW Austrian flags, just to make them look a bit different! I think they look pretty cool with green flags....

And thats it for now. I have 2 Cavalry batteries on my painting table, I wont lie, im struggling to motivate myself to paint the limber teams......

Austrian 6mm Page

Cheers for looking,
Steve

Richard the Lionheart, revisited..

Now then,

I have spent the last few days re-doing King Richards standard. It looked passable before, but you know when you look at something and it bugs you?

Heres what it looked like before.... 3 odd looking yellow monkeys......

Anyway, I have re-done it, and im much happier with it, although it took ages to draw, then paint...





Here we go!

Much better I hope you agree. All the Crusaders can be seen here - Crusaders!

On the painting table are loads of 6mm Napoleonic Austrian landwehr. Im making getting this army finished my priority, as I really want to order some French!

I have not been idle on the painting front, I have painted literally a HORDE of zombies, and of course the desperate survivors, check in again soon for some ZOMBICIDE!

Cheers,
Steve