I’ve been busy with school (again), but I did manage to find time to do a bit of painting. As you can see from the pics below, I’ve decided to do the front rank of each unit first, so that I can get the figures painted up quicker – when I’ve gotten all the front rank done for each unit, I’ll then work my way through the second ranks for each unit.
IR 3 Erzherzog Karl
On the right you can see one of my hexagonal casualty bases and a skirmish base. I also took a closer shot of these two:
IR 3 Casualty and Skirmish stands
I’ll be doing all the bases when I complete the units. I painted these figures as the IR3 Erzherzog Karl, with sky blue turnbacks, collars and cuffs. Unfortunately almost all these figures obscure the turnbacks, but you can still see the collars and cuffs.
IR 3 Command stand
The flags are by Fighting 15s in the UK, and highly recommended. They were really easy to attach too, just a dab of paper glue on each bit, then stick around the pole and press together. It didn’t stick instantly, so I could move it around a little to make sure it was all done properly.
IR 3 Erzherzog Karl from the side
For the colour scheme, I undercoated black as usual, then used black for the helmets, with brass plates (gold for the officers, though they look exactly the same as the brass ones to me), and yellow trim on the crest (gold for the mounted officer). Boots were black drybrushed dark grey, coats and trousers were white linen drybrushed with pure white after getting a brown wash. Guns were as the Jagers below, as were backpacks and overcoats, waterbottles and sword sheaths etc. The officers had dark grey coats, drybrushed lighter grey with a little blue mixed in, and gold sashes and the horse was dark brown, drybrushed a slightly lighter brown, with a red saddle cover with gold trim. The drummer has wings in the facings colour (sky blue), with white trim and ‘rose’ (just a splotch of white) in the centre, and the drum was middle brown drybrushed light brown, with black and yellow stripes and a linen white top. The standard was white, gold and black in a sort-of stripey pattern going up it.
I think next time I’ll go for another infantry unit, maybe Hungarians, though I am thinking of one of my cavalry units – possibly Uhlans or Hussars. Decisions, decisions…
