Color Enhancement Test

This post is a test to determine if I can use my photo editing software to make my pictures not so dark looking. Of course, it may just be my computer at work that isn't balanced enough, but we'll see. You've seen these units before in previous posts.

The Leib Squadron of the Hapnich Dragoons
(Old Glory Prussian dragoons on Litko bases)

The Carpanian Feldjager Korps Staffelddunkel
(Front Rank and Old Glory figures)

The Courland Pandur Battalion Tamnii Narod
(Front Rank and Old Glory figures)

So, can you see the pictures any clearer than in previous posts? Are they not quite so dark? Please tell me what you think. Thanks, Jim

Additions to Carpania and Courland

Toward the end of September, I made several small additions to the forces of the Margraviate of Carpania and the Duchy of Courland in preparation for the Big Battalions game at MilleniumCon next month.

For the Carpanian jagers, I added a battalion commander and battalion sergeant, both Front Rank figures. The officer, Major von Staffeldunkel, is center front. He is actually a dismounted Brunswick dragoon officer from Front Rank's AWI line. The sergeant is just off the officer's pointing finger and is a Prussian jager from Front Rank's SYW line. Neither one looks much out of place with the Old Glory Prussian jagers who make up the rest of the unit.

To command the light forces of the Duchy of Courland, I've added a mounted officer from Front Rank's Austrian SYW line. Dressed as a hussar and carrying his busby in the crook of his right arm, this figure gives every impression of being a resolute commander of light troops. I've named him Colonel Ignace Alleshazy, a Hungarian in the employ of the Duchy of Courland. He will command the Tamnii Narod Pandur battalion and the Timofievich Cossack pulk for the Duchy.
And for the Tamnii Narod Pandurs, each of the three companies has added a company officer and senior sergeant, also Front Rank figures. The officer is waving his sword and the sergeant is to his left (your right). As with the Carpanian jagers leaders, these figures seem to blend well with the Old Glory SYW Austrian figures I'm using for the pandurs. The only glitch is that the sergeants hat is shaped differently and has a cast-on emblem. But I rationalize the discrepancy with the fact that he is a senior NCO.

As the previous post shows, I am now working on my Eureka Saxon figures, which are very nicely cast and a joy to paint.

New Picture of the Tamnii Narod Pandurs

After looking at the previous picture I posted showing one of the three companies of the Tamnii Narod Pandur Battalion of the Duchy of Courland, I knew I could get a better picture. So here it is.


As you can see, these doughty fellows are wearing red pants and small clothes, with black tunics. The poses in the Old Glory SYW Austrian Croat bag are dynamic, which is very suitable for a skirmishing unit. I will be adding two figures, an officer and a sergeant, to each company, as well as a battalion commander. the additions will be Front Rank figures which I believe will go well with these Old Glory figures.

Pandur Battalion Tamnii Narod

Finally, the last of the units I painted in July has been photographed. This is the Pandur Battalion Tamnii Narod [Тамний Народ] of the army of the Duchy of Courland. Since the Duchy is loosely patterned after the SYW Russian army, I felt that a unit of pandurs to serve as light troops was warranted.


This is one of the three companies that compose the battalion. Composed of Old Glory Austrian grenzers, each company has one each of the ten types of figures in the bag. I'll be augmenting each company later with an officer and sergeant using Front Rank figures. The battalion will get a mounted officer (the Franz Nadasdy figure from Front Rank) who will control both the pandurs and the cossacks for the Courland army.

The pandurs get their name from the black coats they wear. Tamnii narod loosely translates from the Russian as "the dark ones."

They should prove formidable opponents to the Carpania jagers and freikorps featured in previous posts.