28mm 16th Lancers

My last little painting interlude before finishing Glenn's armies is this unit, painted for my gaming buddy Kevin.

The figures are all Foundry with lances from North Star.  I made my own pennons from printer paper.

28mm Confederate Cavalry

While I wait on some figures for Glenn's Prussian army, I attempted a few figures for myself.  I got a great deal on some Foundry Civil War figures, and a part of that deal was this set of 48 Confederate cavalry.

I was a little disappointed that Foundry only has two horse poses, but I think that by varying the horse colors I was able to keep the unit from looking too regular.

You'll notice that none of my Confederate cavalry wears a forage cap or kepi, and none has the yellow cavalry piping on their uniforms.  Look at original (not reproduction) items of Confederate cavalry dress, and you will not find much yellow.  I have only seen a couple of pieces, and only on officers' cuffs.  Since all my officers are wearing riding gloves, I omitted all yellow piping.

I went with a variety of greys and butternuts for these units.  I wanted to portray a veteran cavalry unit with the remains of various uniform issues mixed with some civilian dress.

As always, the flags are from the incomparable GMB Designs.

These 48 horsemen took me eight days to paint and base.  Now if Glenn's figures would just arrive, I would finish those Prussians!  Painting for myself seems unnatural somehow.

15mm Old Glory Prussian Landwehr Cavalry

My gaming buddy Austin is cleaning out all his miniatures.  He sent me a 73 pound box of unpainted lead!  These are the first of his figures I have painted, 12 men of the 2nd Silesian Landwehr cavalry.

Austin had ambitiously replaced the cast lances on four figures with brass wire.  I grabbed my pin vice and prepped the rest.

I know a lot of people do not like Old Glory, but I think these are great little figures!

Without any clue as to how landwehr lance pennants would have looked, I went with a suitably Silesian color scheme on these.

I am waiting on a few figures from Eureka, and then it's back to the giant commission!

Giant Commission -- Prussian Heavy Cavalry

Ah, heavy cavalry!  I always like to mount my heavy cavalry on darker horses to make them look more menacing.  Glenn has decided to add some more bases to these, so the Prussian army is not quite done, but it's very close.

Cuirassiers

1st, 2nd, 3rd, and 4th Cuirassiers

Mr. Barton has sculpted these figures in their dark blue Litewka, which they would have worn in the field.  Only the officer is depicted in white coat.

Dragoons

1st, 2nd, 4th, and 5th Dragoons

The Dragoons wore a light blue Litewka, and sources depict that shade everything from a sky blue to a deep cornflower.  I settled for the middle ground, painting Delta's "Liberty Blue" over their "Blueberry."

I'm just waiting on a Eureka order, and I will paint up the rest of the cavalry.

Giant Commission -- Prussian Light Cavalry

The cavalry arm of Glenn's Prussian army is small, but colorful.  Here are the 36 light cavalry.

Hussars

1st (Death's Head), 4th, 5th, and 6th Hussars

Uhlans

1st, 2nd, 3rd, and 4th Uhlans

Landwehr

3rd E Prussian, 1st Silesian, 4th Kurmark, and 2nd Pomeranian

The heavy cavalry will be on the blog tomorrow!

Giant Commission -- Prussian Casualties

Here are 24 dead and wounded Prussians, all AB figures.

Line Infantry

Landwehr

Today I am painting horses.  This army is 3/4 done!