Austrian Landwehr - Victrix 28mm

Week 7 of backlog posting, and here are two Austrian Landwehr battalions. These are made from the Victrix Austrian Landwehr kit. This is just the Austrian Infantry with Corsehut headgear instead of helment or shako, that I mentioned last week is one of my favourites.

I've painted these ones up in earlier 1809 colours, with green jackets, and red facings (Duchy of Kärnten Landwehr) for one unit, and yellow facings (Duchy of Salzburg Landwehr) for the other. 

I've just kept the standard Landwehr Corsehut headgear these figures come with. Some pictures show a variety of headgear like tophats but not game to try that conversion!

These join my other six Landwehr battalions which are Perry and done in the later 1813 grey uniform (though facing colours vary). They can be seen here.
Next week, a more unusual Austrian unit... ;)

Austrian Line - Victrix 28mm

Week 6 of Friday backlog posting. Here we have four units of Austrian Line with the earlier helmet rather than Shako. These are Victrix figures which are my favourite Austrian plastic kit due to the options. This is another 3 boxes making four units of 36, with leftovers used for some support companies that I will also post shortly.

Here are the two yellow facing battalions, which can be any of the regiments with these facings, while the other two units have black facings.

These 144 infantry will join their thousand or so previous colleagues, which can be seen here.

Thanks for looking!

Austrian Kuirassiers - Perry 28mm

Week 5 of Friday backlog posting. Following on from last weeks Austrian Chevauleger, here are 32 Austrian Kuirassiers, once again from the newish Austrian Cavalry plastic box sets. Plus the free metal Colonel that comes if you buy 3 or more boxes.

This is the same great kit that makes Dragoons and Chevaulegers with the armoured torso being used for the Kuirassiers. Austrian Kuirassier armour was black, but I've painted them with a dark gunmetal to give them a slight metallic sheen and compensate for the scale and lighting issues (i.e. common need to lighten colours as scale become smaller).

A closer look at the pewter metal colonel. Nice to have another command figure, and one too where the sword isn't in one of those extended prone to breakage positions!

Thanks for looking. That's twenty units of cavalry for the Austrians now, totalling 248 figures.

Six Kuirassier, six Dragoon/Chevauleger, six Hussar, and two Uhlan units. 
More Napoleonics next Friday. :)