Wurttemberg Jägers 1813.

Three skirmisher stands of 9 figures from Hagen. One of the figures is standing bolt upright to attention (in the far distance) so seems out of kilter from the others on display. The figures are also quite large even by 20mm standards but at least they are supposed to be Wurttemberg Jägers and so will accompany the other Wurttemberg units for Dennewitz. These chaps appear to have been highly rated at the time.

Saxon Hussars 1813 in 20mm

Courtesy of Art Miniaturen we have the new addition of a regiment of Saxon Hussars. The officer's saddle cloth was simply too complicated to paint properly so he ended up with the same as the rest. Varied trouser colours ranging from grey to brown. Variation of the covered shako also. These will be added to von Lindenhau's brigade of cavalry for Dennewitz.

There ought to be the Prinz Clemens regiment as well but I am struggling to find figures that will work. (shako, lance, pointed saddle cloth all combine to make this really difficult in 20mm in metal)

One possible solution is to buy the Franznap headless light cavalry figures with cloaks and add arms and lances. Very fiddly so not very keen.

2nd Pomeranian Landwehr Cavalry 1813

Now added a third regiment (2nd Pomeranian) to the others already recently completed. Grey with white facings and red shoulder tabs. Each officer has a different headgear. This officer has brown trousers rather than the usual grey....just to mix it up a bit.

The brown for 60% of this regiment's horses was achieved with Villajo burnt umber as the undercoat with a more liquid Parasite brown (72.042) on top. Seems very effective.

Prussian Landwehr Cavalry 1813.

Art Miniaturen 20mm figures painted as the 1st Silesian (yellow facings) and the 1st Pomeranian (white facings) circa 1813.
Next up will be the 2nd Pomeranian Landwehr cavalry which will be in grey, white collar and cuffs and red shoulder tabs. All in preparation for Dennewitz in June 2020.

1st Silesian Landwehr Cavalry with painted
 cross on the covered shako. Yellow cuffs and white shoulder tabs.
White over yellow pennant.

1st Pomeranian Landwehr Cavalry without the painted
white cross (just couldn't be bothered!)Red stripe on the
upper edge of the collar.  Should have been on the lower edge....sorry!
White over black pennant. 

Wurttemberg foot artillery 12lb

Latest addition completed courtesy of Franznap and Art Miniaturen. I choose to use the Art Miniaturen guns, horses, limber and caisson so I could use the Art Miniaturen traces which look so authentic. The riders are Franznap and while they are a tad small compared to the artillery horses, this is barely noticeable.
Artillery gunners are all Franznap as are the two command bases. The third command base (Div commander) is a mixture of Hagen and Art Miniaturen.

If this had been horse artillery I would have chosen Franznap across all the elements as the limber/caisson is different.

The Franznap artillery gunners have an excellent range of poses.

Ready for Dennewitz in June.

French Garde d'Honneur in 1/72 due out from Art Miniaturen.

Great news from Art M, who will be releasing new Garde d'Honneur figures including command at the end of January. Relieved to put the knife away and that I will no longer need to switch the shako tassels from right to left! Hope to get two regiments. (32 figures)

 These will accompany the French hussars and Saxon hussars.

New French and Saxon hussars by Art Miniaturen

Excellent news...due out in Jan 2020. 1/72. Perhaps these could be used as Bavarian, Polish, and French Honour Guard as well?

French hussars. The static position looks so much better.

French hussar

Saxon hussars. Will be interesting to see what the differences are
 between these  and the standard French hussars. Shako pompom?
He has used some poses from his Prussian and Russian hussar range.