Just over a year ago I started this Franco-Prussian War project with the intention of building up the Prussian VII Army Corps, battalion for battalion, and a cavalry division, regiment for regiment.
This week sees the completion of the infantry component of that force: 24 line battalions and one jäger battalion, sixteen stands of skirmishers plus some 30 casualty figures. In all that is 654 figures…all Perry plastics.
So without further ado, here are the latest additions:
The Fusilier Battalion, 77th Regiment…
…all three battalions of the 73rd (Hanoverian Fusilier) Regiment…
…another nine skirmish stands…
…a few battle casualties…
…and a parade of the full corps in all its glory.
The Thirteenth Infantry Division, with the 25th Brigade (13th and 73th Regiments) in the first two rows the 26th Brigade (15th and 55th Regiments) to the rear, all formed in double column of companies at close intervals. The 7th Jäger battalion, on the right, is attached to this division, while the divisional cavalry, the 8th Hussars, are on the left.
The Fourteenth Infantry Division, with the 27th Brigade (39th and 74th Regiments) in the first two rows the 28th brigade (53rd and 77th Regiments) in the rear. The 15th Hussars, the divisional cavalry are on the right.
Finally the full corps, with Thirteenth Division in the left, Fourteenth to the right with the Jägers and skirmish divisions deployed forward.
Next up is the first of the French infantry.
Very impressive, again, very exciting to see all of them at one paraded after following the post by post pictures. Looking forward to the huge games surely to follow.
ReplyDeleteThanks Joe. The games may lag until the French are done…the line infantry aren’t released yet
DeleteMark, this is another amazing display of your prodigious painting prowess. Well done!
ReplyDeleteAh you know me Jonathan…just a couple of weeks work…I have to admit I was getting pretty tired of painting Prussian infantry, hence all the little side line projects.
Deleteoutstanding
ReplyDeleteThanks Bruce, the artillery is on the way now.
Deletei just picked up some minipigs horse guns and siege guns for my mini-me prussian army
DeleteYour collection must be getting up there now…
DeleteThat is a very nice army, you must be well pleased with that.
ReplyDeleteThanks Norm. Yes it is pleasing, but as I replied to Jonathan paintibgnOrusdian blue tunics with grey pants was getting tedious.
DeleteMan, that is a LOT of miniatures and they look great like that; all out on the table. I’m guessing their opponents are also in such a mass?
ReplyDeleteWell done on these guys. 😀
It’s a big count, but still accounts for less than 5% of the total number of foot figures in the cupboards! I am about start on the French…the first six figures are undercoated and ready to go tonight…thankfully they are a little more colourful that the drab and dour Prussians.
DeleteThat's an impressive achievement all laid out together en masse, Mark! The Perrys really need to get the French done too, don't they?!
ReplyDeleteIt was difficult to get a wide enough angle to capture them all. I still have half of the Prussian artillery and two brigades of cavalry to go, so the French can take their time.
DeleteWow… Now that is an impressive parade Mark.
ReplyDeleteThey will look great on the battlefield.
All the best. Aly
Thank you Aly. It was a challenge to fit them all in the shot.
DeleteI missed this as it looks as though Blogger has broken the link to your blog. Beautiful stuff Mark and an impressive parade. Now to spend an unrewarding half hour trying to figure out what Blogger has done thgis time.
ReplyDeleteI worry about some of these cloud based computing developers at times. They seem to push updates out without adequate UAT at times. We had an instance recently where a print driver was updated and it brought down three mission critical services…thankfully the facility for manual workarounds still exists.
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