Austrian army 1809

Our hobbyfriend Manfred who asked for Tirolean insurgents which we already have in the shop, also asked for Vienna City regiments in 1809.

He has some very nice units of the Austrian army in 1809 and I asked him for some photos which I know got from him.

I put the bigger files on the blog so that you can zoom for details. My favorites are the conversions to Serresaner Border troops. But also the Bohemian legion, sculpted by Uwe Ehmke and which I also used for our Aspern diorama nearly 10 years ago are an eyecatcher.

Radetzky's Dragoons

Another set into our new range of the 1848 Risorgimento. This time we have Austrian Dragoons.

This will be a bigger range of which Massimo is sculpting the cavalry parts and Ingo the infantry units.  The next sets will be Austrian Artillery and Grenzers as well as Austrian Dragoons.

I thought about enemies. Beside the Hungarians the Italian war gives a lot of opportunities. My favorites are the Papal units who fought the Austrians at Lake Garda.

Franco Prussian war diorama

George from the USA has the same "favorite war" from the 19th century as I do.

So he sent photos from his diorama over. All the figures are BB Miniaturen when I see it right.
I like their cavalry, but find the infantry figures too clumbsy.

But I must say they have a huge range for this war with a lot of nice sets. And of course I have all these figures in my own collection too:-)

I hope you enjoy the photos as much as I did when I saw them.

British Artillery American war of Independence

Maybe you have seen on the blog the first post I made for British artillery in the AWI.
Frank sculpted for us this set.

The good thing with Frank is, that if he likes a subjects, he starts expanding it. So tonight I got these photos from him.

Perfect drill poses. I wish we would have had them when we worked on the Cuddalore diorama.
BTW, with a standing collar we could use them for the French Revolution...

Radetzky's army

The next set for our project "1848-1878" is the third set of Radetzy's army in Italy 1848.

The plan is to cover the complete Austrian army of 1848 which we can use against Italians and Hungarians in 1849.

Here we now have a set of 12 Austrian Jäger. The next will be Austrian artillery and afterwards Austrian Grenzer/Hungarian Infantry.

The infantry sets will be made by Ingo while Massimo will cover the cavalry units.

Here now the masters:

Sadly the second rank is difficult to see, but I will put photos of the castings on the blog ASAP.

Ottoman Napoleonic army

Andy sent me the first castings from Leonids Russian cavalry in Potemkin uniform 1786-1796.
This is one of my favorite uniforms, very modern for this time.

So I started to paint these figures as Carabiniers which I want to show here soon.
I already painted some Infantry units of them too.

Now I searched for enemies and the war I had in mind is the Russo-Turkish war of 1787-92. Austrians and Russian fighting the Ottomans.

Take a look at Wikipedia

There are a lot of articles about this war in German in the Österreichische Militärische Zeitung (ÖMZ) available for free on Google books.

Revoultionary French and Potemkin Russians against my own Napoleonic Ottoman army, a colorful subject. So I started painting my Ottomans too. Here for example some photos of the Janisarries.

You see from the flowers that I made them some month ago:-)
So when Ulundi is done I will concentrate on this subject