Saturday 23 June 2012

Army Showcase Part V: 7YW Austrians

Hoi,

Today's showcase brings you my Austrian Army for the 7 Year's War. The miniatures are almost all Revell Plastics and have turned out pretty cool. It's a bit like with the Napoleonic French: I started collecting Nappies to gather Wellington's Redcoats but that would mean owning some Frenchies to fight them, since I always leave best till last I started with the French which at first I really disliked. While I started out with the idea of only doing some Line Cavalry and infantry for the French I discovered I actually liked the load of colourful uniforms and their great diversity so now I have practically all mainstream units from Guard to line infantry lying in waiting for a paintjob.... thus it went with the Austrians: I bought the sets to create a 7YW British Army but this would mean converting all the grenadiers into chaps with mitres instead of bearskins. When HäT showed their upcoming MAC Prussians I realised they could be used far easier to gain British Redcoats so decided to paint the Austrians as they were intended to fight my Brits. And so I ended up with a decent Austrian force.

Here then are the pictures. First up is an overview of the troops ready at the moment of taking pictures:


 A closer view of the infantry:


 The cavalry:
And finally the artillery




More stuff is in the works, as we speak I actually have finished but not yet photographed the Baden -Baden regiment of the Swabian Detachement for the Reichsarmée (a sort of auxiliary corps for the Austrians made up of troops from several Holy German Empire States) and have based/ coated 3 more infantry regiments, an artillery battery and a unit of dragoons.Photo's of those will follow when ready.

Hope you like them,

Cheers Sander

Listening to: "Carmina Burana" by Carl Orff

5 comments:

DeanM said...

Great looking force! Best, Dean

Jason Meyers said...

Very nice looking army and blog as well!

Jason

Ogilvie VC said...

Outstanding as ever Sander.
No doubt youll be eagerley awaiting HATs SYW figs.

Ben Gilmour said...

Excellent work, Sander!

Sander said...

Thanks gentlemen, yes I am eagerly awaiting the HäT miniatures but there's a lot of Austrians still in the works...