Showing posts with label Silesian. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Silesian. Show all posts

Saturday, 26 February 2011

Prussian Landwehr - Work in progress with new metal recruits

Started again on my Silesian Landwehr regiment, shown below as a work in progress.  I'm filling out numbers using the new Warlord metals that will add some variety to the plastic box set figures.  I like the new figures, especially the 'at trail' set.  Each of my Landwehr regimental battalion will be either 36 or 42 men strong (still can't decide).
 The front rows have been glued to the base ready for wood filler.  I tend to paint the models individually and then base, rather than painting as a group.
 The group of figures 'at trail' are based as a '3' rather than '6'.  I'm going to use them as skirmishers as required.
 The mounted Prussian officers from Warlord are sculpted in the same style as the plastics; I'm going to use one for each battalion.


Tuesday, 23 November 2010

Napoleon's Memoirs

Last week I visited the Targe wargames exhibition in Kirriemuir and picked up a copy of Napoleon's Memoirs for £3.  The hardcover is from the 1940's and is edited by Somerset De Chair, bringing the various campaigns dictated to his secretaries into a single narrative. 
Of course, I immediately flipped to the back for the Waterloo section.  Napoleon's point-of-view is interesting, and reads ' Winning, winning, winning, winning, Prussians, winning, lost'! 

Speaking of Prussians, the first command stand for my Silesian Landwehr are based.  I've gone with black crossbelts  based on the guidance of the Mont-Saint-Jean site.