Prussian cuirassiers, 1st Regiment

Uniform details and flag taken from the Greenwood and Ball/Garrison booklet 'Uniforms of the Seven Years War'. A slightly enlarged second edition  is available from 18th Century Press and has nothing to do with me!

Anyway, finally got round to finishing a Cuirassier regiment:

Two companies made up a squadron. Or it could representing two of the five squadrons in the regiment.

The standard is from page 11 of  the booklet.

7PC1 Cuirassier officer

7PC2 Cuirassier

7PC3 Trumpeter. The trim is silver with two lines alternating yellow and red. There should be some blue triangles in there somewhere but I didn't bother with them...

7PC4 Standard bearer. No idea what colour the ribbon should be, probably red, but I've just done it the same as the trumpeter's trim.

So with a squadron of cavalry finished, perhaps I'll be able to speed up a bit...

Up to mould 150...

 Had quite a few moulds made in the last year or so, partly to make up for the 'missing' year when Pete wasn't able to do any. 

Anyway, the latist batch has arrived and takes the total up to 150 moulds I've had made since I bought Garrison. Compare that to Paul Ashton's comment on TMP the year before I bought Garrison:

'In actual fact the moulds were put together by a dyslxic schizophrenic with only 1, 2 or 3 figures the same in each mould ... and then labelled and indexed incorrectly. They are a nightmare to cast and cost us more to produce then our newer well-made moulds of our own miniatures but we do it as we don't want to see the ranges die. Remaking the moulds is not an option.'

Worth pointing out that I still tend to do 1, 2 or 3 figures the same in each mould - it's cost! On the other hand, most of the figures are usually from the same range... And obviously remaking moulds is very much an option. Over the years the moulds have paid for themselves and are still in credit!

For some reason there were two mouldcodes that I missed. So this one fills one of the gaps! Lots of rossbows, a couple of Byzantine standards, some (Burgundian?) shields and that little dot thing between the halberds/shields - the bell from a Seleucid elephant!

The other 'missing' code. It just happens to be right next to the other 7YW moulds, which is a happy coincidence... Prussian cuirassiers and dragoons plus hussar code 7YC3. 7YW cavlary are proving a bit of a pain to find/identify - well, at least the French and Austrians are.

So back to the end of the list... 25mm French Napoleonic heavy cavalry missing a trumpeter and standard bearer. 

And here are some of the French line light cavalry - light lancers, hussars and Chasseurs a Cheval.

Byzantine light infantry, Basil and a couple of Trapezitoi

And... 150. Byzantine cavalry horses. Apart from a couple of riders all the Byzantine range is now on new moulds.

So, next target would be 200 moulds...

Unfinished business...

 Not all the armies I started got very far....

Russian Dragoons. I use Russian cavalry as Prussians as well - the heavies seem to be just about identical to each other.

 

A battalion of Bavarians...

... includes officer and standard bearer

And a piece of artillery.

Plus an Austrian gun

I painted two guns but I've only got one crew. The various artillery crews feature a lot of head swap conversions.

I cast and assembled quite a few artillery pieces in anticipation of doing more and bigger armies!

20mm British Napoleonic army Review

Another army that is a battalion light... note I don't have the 'official' codes for some of these - they don't appear in any of my catalogues - I simply found the originals lying around mixed in with other figures and masters!

Life Guards

BN3 Grenadiers marching

British artillery with a Rose gun.

BN8 Line infantry marching with BN4 officer

Dragoons

20mm French Napoleonic army Review

I think it's worth pointing out that this lot weren't described as 20mm originally - I just call them 20mm because they are a bit smaller than the later ones that were described as 25mm. 

FNC11 Carabinier.

FN3 Old Guard Grenadiers marching

I gave the Grenadiers 2 flags!

Generals and/or senior officers. I've got it down as BNC1 Horse Guard...

French artillery - crews are originals, not conversions... Gun is the Rose Napoleonic French cannon.

FN8 Fusilier marching

They only get 1 flag.

FNC8 Light Horse Lancer

FNC7 Chasseur a Cheval

Still need a load more of these. I can see myself abandoning the 7 Years War armies and getting back to these!

20mm Prussian Napoleonic army Review

Partly because I'm still finding it difficult to motivate myself painting the 7YW figures I thought I'd look at some of the early Garrison Napoleonic figures I did about 5 years ago.

Starting with the Prussians...

Prussian artillery. The guns are Rose French Napoleonic guns, the crew are simply Prussian heads put on French bodies.

The command stand officer is another conversion - slightly modified Austrian officer.

Pretty much a generic regiment, possibly Pomeranian. 1st Generation PN8, Line infantrymarching. 

Landwehr, officer and standard bearer are conversions.

The main unit consists of PN12, Landwehr marching

This lot seem to be Russian cuirassiers mounted on Prussian horses. They paint up quite well as Prussian cuirassiers. I don't think this figure was ever issued.

It also works well as Prussian Dragoons.

Prussian Hussars, simple head swap with a Prussian head on a ? hussar - can't remember what!

General of unknown nationality - don't have it in any catalogues but it's quite useful as generals and senior offices. Which is why I painted a few up.

If I ever got round to it, must paint up some Guard figures.

7 Years War infantry

 

I'm pretty much treating this army as a glorified DBX unit with 12 figures per infantry unit, 6 figures per cavalry unit - the cavalry representing 2 squadrons in the WRG Wargames Rules 1685-1845.

My complete army so far is one infantry regiment and 3 guns, a limber and 1 gun crew. By putting the crews on individual bases I don't need crews for every gun!

I'm also painting up a unit of cuirassiers - must remember that the trumpeter doesn't have a cuirass...

Naturally my main reference, including copying the flag, is the Greenwood & Ball 1st edition of Uniforms of the Seven Years War. (Well, the book was included with Garrison...) A second, slightly extended, version is available from 18th Century Press. I should note I have no connection with these other than letting them use materials I hold copyright for! When I come to do a Dragoon unit I'll be using a British drummer figure as the book says the Dragoons used drummers ):