Austrian Army Review, Grenadiers, Staff and Artillery

 The bank holiday presented the opportunity to finish off the next tranche of Warrior Austrians, originally painted by Jeffers. This time, I reorganised and based three combined grenadier battalions, another two line battalions, the staff officers and all of the artillery.

The combined grenadier battalions are those with white flags, with two more line battalions in the foreground.

A view from above gives a better impression of the grenadiers.  They are made up from the grenadier companies from the line battalions.

The complete Austrian staff.looking splendid as they survey the field.

And finally the artillery.  There are currently seven batteries, but I found some more gunners and will make up an 8th unit.

As I put these away I am soaking another load of infantry.  There are more line battalions plus some landwehr units to come.

Austrian Army Review

 In what I think was a moment of madness, Jeffers handed over many box files of Austrian and French troops to me.  The deed took place in the carpark of the Warfare show a couple of years ago.  Since then the armies have made an appearance on the table, but there are probably too many to have them all deployed at once.  Whilst the bases are lovely, the units are a bit too big for my hex based games.  

After a lot of thought, I have decided to restructure the armies and,where necessary, rebase them to conform with my other armies and the terrain.

All of the figures are by Warrior Miniatures and the painting is exquisite. They really show how Warrior figures can be turned into little gems in skilled hands.

To start off with, I have sorted out the cavalry.  They are pretty much as Jef painted and based them.  I have just changed to colour of the base and organised them into two divisions, a heavy and a light.  They look splendid on the table:

There is a general figure and each division has a battery of horse artillery.  I plan to add two more commanders in due course, one for each division.  The light cavalry are nearest the camera.

Here is a view from the other side with the heavies nearest:

Here are some closer shots of these lovely little figures:

I have started on the infantry, but that is going to be a more lengthy process.  I will do a brigade at a time - there are a lot of brigades!

25mm Minifigs S Range Austrian Artillery

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I bought these figures off eBay, consisting of two full crews of S Range Austrian gunners and a couple of guns.  The guns were British, so I swapped these with a couple of split trail guns, French I think.

The figures were quite play worn and painted a creamy yellow colour, so I stripped them down I have given them a coat of gloss paint:

Work continues on some Ros Curassiers.

SYW Project - More Progress

Today I finished off some more items to add to my growing Seven Years War armies:

First off some Austrian gunners:

To go with them an Austrian commander figure:

I also refurbished these Prussian Grenadiers, which were very dusty and in need of an uplift and new bases. I also added a mounted command figure:

My next entry will be a battle report as I have not played a game for some time.