Raise high ze black flags my children! - The Prussian Army of 1813-1815
Back, and Bigger!
After a big break in 2022 the project is back, and bigger and hopefully better than ever.
The spring clean challenge seems like the perfect time to be progressing the project with my Napoleonic mojo clearly back what better than to break out masses of Prussians! That and a tight deadline of a demo game at Partizan 2023!
Batch painting, go big or go home
A small insight into how I’ve been approaching the project so far, generally I fully assemble, clean-up, remove mould lines a whole regiment at a time, in the past this has been 3 battalions each consisting of 24 figures, 4 figures to a 40mm base, and 6 bases to a battalion.
This has mostly remained the same, this time I’m focusing on a line infantry regiment, either to be the 1st or 2nd Silesian however I’ve made a change to basing and figure count, moving from 40mm square to 60x40mm, and only 4 bases, I’ve also increased the figure density, to 8 figures per base, leaving me with a battalion of 32 figures. To round this up to a bigger unit of 5 bases, I’ve added a small 45x40mm skirmish stand to the musketeer battalions, which will be useful for games such as Soldiers of Napoleon. Overally this gives a much denser look to the units, which I prefer, and something I’ve also adopted with cavalry, but more on that in a later post.
The result of this is I’ve given myself a tight deadline, and increased the number of figures to paint by 50%, wish me luck!
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