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by stryker at 15 21 10 comments labels heavy cavalry russian wednesday 29 april 2026 terrible painting finished the 57th les terribles are finished these have been a bit of a struggle to complete mostly because i kept getting distracted with other things on the painting desk i was also putting off painting the flag as this is the eighth one i have done and the lettering is a real pain and my eyes aren t getting any younger the figures used are 1 x fn 1 officer charging 1 x fn 4 colour bearer charging 1 x fn 6 drummer 1 x fn 241 officer charging 1807 12 range 20 x fn 244 fusilier charging 1807 12 range all my french units have the same battle honours inscribed on their flags as these were the ones marcus hinton engraved on them it was only when i based the figures that i discovered some of them were orientated at a slightly different angle which meant that lining them up was a right old faff interestingly in a nerdy way my other unit of this figure type the swiss are all orientated in yet another direction i know all the figures i used are genuine vintage castings but presumably they have come from different molds in other news i was very pleased to receive some russian cuirassier castings from don w in the us last week this was exceedingly generous of him and i have already stripped the figures and prepared them for undercoating also converting a trumpeter rn 30 russian cuirassier mounted charging one piece castings these cuirrasiers together with my garde du corps will certainly catch the eye of the czar once painted posted by stryker at 20 07 20 comments labels conversions french russian saturday 11 april 2026 russian horse guard or is it well no this is actually a prussian garde du corps trooper with a small modification and paint job conversion the modification is that i have removed the canteen slung above the scabbard apart from that the figure is unchanged pn 73 prussian garde du corps mounted charging painted as a russian life guard so why have i done this the simple answer is that i don t have any russian heavy cavalry figures and as you know they are a bit on the rare side and this has stymied the growth of my russian forces i have infantry artillery and some light cavalry in the lead pile but without the heavies you really can t fight borodino can you the figure is similar enough to the russian version to pass inspection the saddle cloth is not square cut and the portmanteau is square not round but hey who s counting what i do have are some recasts of prussian garde du corps that were destined for blucher s forces however last year s aquisition of prussian dragoons and cuirassiers means that old marshal vorwarts no longer needs them first though i must finish those french infantry posted by stryker at 11 43 20 comments labels conversions heavy cavalry prussian russian saturday 28 march 2026 austrian parade and another drubbing at goya s back last july i posted a review of the austrian infantry but of course since then recruitment has continued unabated so i thought i would treat you with a full review of the complete austrian army there are now 12 units of foot 6 of cavalry and 6 batteries this brings the whole force including generals to 400 figures which is surely enough i m thinking even bonaparte must be starting to take them seriously the map reading generals section always good to know where you are on monday i was invited to take in more seaside air at goya s with a game billed as the awi battle of cowpens but as we were using his war of 1812 collection it had more of that sort of feel about it the rules were standard commands colors napoleonic we played the game twice swapping sides in the first game i was the americans on the left and goya played the british on the right these are all airfix british figures painted as us troops they look great all the troops on my left flank were militia and once the redcoats advanced they seemed to melt away the result was a swift and decisive victory for goya these troops are of course hinton hunt so no wonder they were winning the second game played out in a completely different way as although the militia once again ran away it wasn t far enough to give me any vps then somehow the us troops got the upper hand and before i knew it i seemed to have no army left it s always a pleasure to see goya s troops on the table even if it results in a double drubbing posted by stryker at 12 00 28 comments labels austrian commands colors on manoeuvres playing soldiers war of 1812 sunday 22 march 2026 springtime in paris off topic 41 i ve just returned from a week in paris with mrs s this was the first time i ve ever been unless you count disneyland in the 90s with the kids but i really don t think you can i was very very impressed with the city possibly helped by the fact that the sun shone every day i won t bore you with my holiday snaps other than i know you d like to see the napoleonic related ones well blow me down with a feather if i didn t come across the great man s coat and hat at fontainebleau nice satchel too and this was his austere camp bed while this is his bling real bed i d quite like steps to get up into my own bed these days also at fontainebleau which incidently was much less busy than versailles is the room where he signed the abdication although possibly not at that actual table napoleon s tomb i thought the whole site seem really uncared for it was very dirty and dusty and generally had bad vibes not what i was expecting i ve always liked this picture so it was nice to see it for real annoying that i was photobombed by an old git franconi the circus rider the original at the louvre another favourite picture of mine also on display at the louvre napoleon at eylau would i ever go back oui posted by stryker at 15 17 15 comments labels off topic saturday 14 march 2026 some terrible painting as promised i ve started work on a french infantry unit using the charging fusilier figure from the hinton hunt 1807 12 range the first test figure below is one of the ones tony gave to me recently the unit will represent the 57th les terribles because i just had to have a unit with that name fn 244 fusilier charging stripping the old paint from the batch of figures turned into a right old chore the ones tony gave me were fine but the others i ve used resisted the bleach soak i eventually got them all cleaned up after two goes in a dettol bath i m hoping to get the unit painted reasonably fast as i have cleared all distractions from the painting desk posted by stryker at 14 31 27 comments labels french saturday 7 march 2026 austrian infantry done i finally got around to completing my last austrian unit that will represent the 36th kinsky regiment because they have pink facings and i like the name as i mentioned before these are figures i ve refurbished that were donated by us gamer don w the infantry figure is an 4 musketeer charging most of my work on these has been the lining of the straps the very nice flag is original painting by don i find refurbishing almost as time consuming as painting from scratch but i wanted to preserve as much of don s original brushwork as possible this gives me a total of 12 infantry units for my austrian forces which is way more than i ever expected to have next will be more french posted by stryker at 16 50 15 comments labels austrian older posts home subscribe to posts atom hinton hunt pin ups hinton hunt catalogue pages home order of battle unit histories french infantry unit histories british infantry unit histories allied infantry unit histories french cavalry unit histories allied cavalry my other blogs road to appomattox 15mm acw buildings here are all the new acw buildings as featured in the game on the previous post they are all 3d printed models available from battle honours twin hou 2 months ago boer war in miniature argyll sutherland highlanders we had a trip to stirling castle today never been before and i highly recommend it it s a much bigger site 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