Finally finished the basing!

I finally got my act together and wrapped up the basing of some generals and the first 2 battalions of landwehr that I had been rebasing. The bases of the remaining 4 battalions are near completion as well.

I've taken some pictures of the ones I got finished. First of all here's Von Jagow with an ADC. Pretty pleased with how the bases turned out, and love the AB generals, really nice figures!

 

Then there's the landwehr battalions. Unfortunately completely crap troop (Westphalian landwehr in 1815, about as bad as they can get), but amongst the nicer figures made by (then) Chariot Miniatures. These were the first actual units based with my new basing technique, so it was a bit of an experiment for me. Slightly more labour intensive than I had hoped, but not bad overall.

 

 

Prussian Generals - still to be named

 

This one will probably be von Steinmetz, but the matter is still to be determined.

Overall I'm pleased with the results, especially with it having been such a long time since i painted napoleonics.

I'm looking at a new basing method for this army, the materials (silfor grass etc.) should arrive anytime now. I'll make some more pictures of the finished bases.

Prussian Generals - von Jagow & ADC

 

And here we have one of the brigade (division according to LFS definitions) commanders, von Jagow.

Prussian Generals - von Ziethen & Staff

 

I picked this figure for von Ziethen since it seemed to have a certain professional arrogance that seemed to suit the very skilled general.

Prussian generals - the old hussar & staff

 

Since nobody makes a generals set without a Blücher in the mix it was kinda hard avoiding the geezer. Besides, it's a cool figure to paint up.

Prussian Generals - von Röder and ADC

 

Well, they're done, other than matt varnish and basing...

The first set is my 1st Corps cavalry commander, von Röder. I chose this figure because it replected the bold temper he displayed in the first game of La Feu Sacré...

The 2nd figure is his ADC, cavalry ADCs would often wear a uniform copied from the cuirassier, and especially with von Röder being an old cuirassier it seemed like a good choice.

Still working on those generals

 

Managed to get a bit more painting done today. Most details are now on the figures, still need to do hair, highlight the skin tones and do a few last details like the porte-manteaux.

In the mean time did a bit of work on a fantasy wargame set, that should go through a first playtest next weekend. Hope things will work, but there's some concepts that need a lot of testing.

Prussian Commanders (cont.) Facings

 

Spent a good while on the collars - quite a pain to paint a metallic gold line along the LOWER edge of the collar, without painting onto the coat...

Also did a first highlight on the faces, just to get an idea what they are going to look like.

Dilemma: The sashes, silver or white? Hard to tell from illustrations, need to do more research again.

Prussian Commanders (cont.) - And then they were horses

 

Today I did the detailling on the horses - blazes, socks, manes, hooves.

I tried a new trick for the dark manes. Mixed black ink with Valleyo "Slow Dry". Helps the ink stick more than run, and makes for a nice darkening filter effect. Just painted that across the already shaded brown or grey.

I'm pretty pleased with the results, makes one hell of a difference. Suddenly they start to look like horses.

Next up: Either the clothes or the horse tack, yet undecided.

Prussian Commanders (cont. 2)

 

I wasn't happy with the brown horses, figured they needed a slightly different shade.

Washed with Vallejo's 'skin wash' with a bit of black wash mixed in, then highlighted with a bit of orange brown thrown in.

Enough for the night, I'll be having a look tomorrow how much lighter I want the highlighting, before I start detailling the horses (socks, blazes etc)

Prussian Commanders (cont.)

 

Added the basic colours for the uniforms. Bit of a puzzle, didn't expect the greatcoat collars to have facing colours as well, for one.

Stumped on the saddlecloths/bags and the like, will need to search for sources on that. I only have colour pictures of generals on foot...

Prussian Commanders in progress

 

Continuing with bringing my 1815 Prussians up to speed for Le Feu Sacré. I am seriously lacking in commanders, so am adding a slew of:
- Regimental commanders (1 figure)
- Brigade Commanders (2 figures, undecided yet)
- Corps Commander(s) (3 or 4 figures)

Painting mounted figures is more time consuming than I recalled. But at least their uniforms are really simple.

These figures are a mix of AB and Fantassin generals, with one Chariot ADC thrown in.