More Prussians

The last few days has seen me painting the final Prussian Line battalion consisting of Ros Figures and revamping four Minifigs S range Landwehr battalions.

First off we have the Ros line infantry, painted as 1813 -15 regular infantry, representing a West Prussian unit:

Next, I have four Prussian Landwehr battalions. Two are from the Elbe Province with light blue facings and the other two are Westphalian, with green facings:

I bought these on eBay many months (maybe years) ago and they have been sitting in a drawer waiting their turn.  The original artist had done a very good job, but they were scratched and some of the paint had yellowed.  So, I rebased them and touched them up.  Four very useful additions to the Prussian army.

Prussian Reserve Infantry

To make a bit of a change from painting infantry in blue and grey I decided to have a go at depicting some of the many reserve battalions.  In the period 1813 - 1815 the Prussian army suffered from severe equipment shortages at a time when the army was expanding rapidly through the creation of reserve and militia units.  The result was a variety of uniforms in many forms and colours. As new equipment came in units swapped uniforms creating a mixed bag that was not sorted out before the end of the napoleonic wars. 

One form of dress is a plain grey jacket with matching grey trousers and minimal unit facing colours. My figures reflect two such units, although I have applied a little artistic license. First off, colours were banned from reserve units in 1813 and probably most units were not even issued any; however, there are cases were unofficial colours were reportedly carried by units. In my case the mothers and wives have produced unofficial colours for these two units, in a form commonly attributed to militia regiments.

Additionally, I think the officers should be dressed in blue standard Prussian uniforms - I have dressed my officers to match the men. All that said, I think they look OK, reperesenting the 12th and 18th Regiments:

Yet more Ros Prussians

Another three battalions take to the field.  That's 11 completed so far. I will produce a picture when I finish the last units with the whole army deployed on the table:

Renovated Ros Prussians

As mentioned before, I continue to work my way through my collection of Ros Prussians, with the aim of refurbishing them and giving them new bases. I am organising them into 12 figure units to match my other units.

Today I finished off another four units. Each consisting of Ros Prussian line infantry, with Warrior command figures:

So far I have completed seven units, with about the same number still to do.

Ros 25mm Prussian Infantry

Continuing to work through the refurbishment of some of my older figures, these Ros Prussians date back to 1975 and were getting a bit worn and shabby:

Only another 200 to go!

More SYW Prussians

A second regiment of Prussians was completed over the weekend. Again these have been refurbished, They were quite yellow from old varnish as well as being dusty and dull.  I have also rebased them.

These are Minifigs Prussian line infantry and I suspect that some of them are copies, having been cast in a softer metal and with quite vague detail in some cases. That said, they look fine alongside the original castings and they make up another useful unit for my growing Seven Years War forces:

Ros Figures - Prussian Command

Working my way through the 25mm

Ros Figures lead pile. This time it is the turn of Prussian infantry command to be painted.  I have not seen these painted before and I am quite pleased with how they turned out.

These will replace my Warrior command figures currently in use with my Ros prussian units: