I have been taking a little bit of a break from painting AWI figures following Historicon three weeks ago after painting nothing but AWI for at least the past twelve months. It is time to return to the Minden Project and augment my Austrian forces.
First of all, I needed to set all of my Austrians out on the gaming table to assess what I needed to add to the army in order to finish it. When you see the whole collection stretched across the table before your eyes, all of the missing pieces become quite apparent.
1) I need more Austrian cavalry. I only have one 24-figure regiment of dragoons and a partial 12- figure regiment of the Alt Modena cuirassiers ( the only cuirassier regiment with blue facings). So the first project was to paint the next dozen figures in this regiment, which I accomplished last week.
2) Artillery support equipment. I need to paint limbers for 4 guns and add 4 ammo supply wagons for each gun. I might add a couple of three pounder battalion guns.
3) Hungarian Regiment Josef Esterhazy needs its second battalion. I have five other musketeer battalions completed plus two grenadier battalions and two Croat battalions. The extra Hungarian battalion will complete my Austrian infantry contingent.
4) Army Command. I need to paint a command stand for Marshall Leopold von Daun, using the Minden Austrian senior command figures.
Go get 'em, Fritz! We all need more Austrians! (I love the whitecoats and I need to get back to painting mine as well.)
ReplyDeleteI want a collection like yours when I grow up.
ReplyDeleteFMB
Did you say 4 ammunition wagons per gun? That's a lot of wagons.
ReplyDeleteA lot of work here, sir!
ReplyDeleteUm, that would be one ammo wagon per gun. :)
ReplyDeleteThat's the ticket Jim!
ReplyDeleteA great challenge, Alter Fritz - it will give us pictures with - as usual - splendidly painted figures, I hope!
ReplyDeleteI am already impatient!!
Peter