Today I took a break from figures and built up this little house. I have a dearth of houses and general terrain for my imaginary wargames table so today's effort goes some way to fixing this. It was a great little day project in between my work on the Austrian artillery. Good times!
A nice change from painting infantry. The figures aren't as goog as the Hat French but still quite ok. I might have to do some chopping to get the riders to look more natural.
The "German" battalions are finished and now I am awaiting the start of the Landwehr/Grenadiers and Grenzers. Another 15-20 battalions methinks. In the meantime I am going to start on my baggage wagons and cavalry artillery.
Been a bit sick and busy lately. Anyway here is a snap of the continuing project.
As the title suggests I now have an extra arm to my Austrian Army. The brown of the uniforms is passable and on the table will look ok. I really like the cannons though. The Austrians had a lighter caliber than tbe French and I think the models reflect this well. My next part of the project will be the 1809 Austrian "German " infantry.
I found a company online which does Uhlans and Hussars in 20mm lead called Newline Designs. Previously, I had decided to avoid leads as the figures look a little like dwarves and are very chunky. These figures however might fit reasonably well next to my plastics at one pound a pop they are certainly more expensive than plastics but since I'll only need about 50 figures it isn't too much of a big deal. Getting these figures would mean that the project will be fully provisioned and all that will be needed will be time to paint. That I can handle!
