Palouse Wargaming Journal - Anniversary and Giveaway!

Many of you will already be familiar with Jonathan's excellent blog 'Palouse Wargaming Journal' covering Napoleonic and many more periods besides! I've particularly enjoyed his early Napoleonic projects, as these are not as commonly seen as the later periods, and there are some interesting uniform differences too.  Jonathan has also been a frequent commentator on my own blog which is much appreciated.

To celebrate the sixth anniversary of his blog, he is having a giveaway, see here for full details!
http://palousewargamingjournal.blogspot.com/2018/09/six-years-past.html

Hungarian Grenadiers, Perry 28mm

Hungarian Grenadiers painted up, adding to the Austrian Reserve Korp.  42 of them. Same stylised knots as for other Hungarian trouser wearers, done as described in the previous Grenzers post.

Should probably have given the officer white gloves...

As with the Hungarian Line infantry, there is only one pose of March attack, though it has six very slightly different head variants!

Like my German Grenadier regiments (here and here) I went with the later look of uniform yellow facings on the bearskin bags (which I understand they switched too), rather than bags in regimental facing colours.

Perry make a pack of Hungarian Grenadiers in attacking pose, so I added a couple of bases of these just for variety. The second figure from left is actually from the command pack, with the remaining attacking figure being in the rear rank of one of the other bases.  (Note: Pics below don't have the extra lighting used for figures above, will try and replace pics when I have time).

The 50mm square base allows protection of the forward projecting bayonets if they are placed towards the rear of the base!

Thanks for looking! Currently painting up more Hungarian Line, rebasing Generals, and cleaning up Hussars.

Austrian Grenz Infantry, Perry 28mm

Some improved photos of my Grenz, and I've just finished adding a couple more regiments, so 120 figures in total now.

Grenz or Grenzers were border troops from Hungary, serving the Austrian Empire. Good troops with their own irregular fighting style that were somewhat compromised  in effectiveness by having to fight in regular formations. The figures by Perry are nicely done - holding their muskets at all sorts of casual angles rather than in parade drill or march attack.

Some close ups of one of the regiments.

Note that likely only a few of them should have red cloaks, but I had done too many of them before I remembered, and kept going! Most of them having grey cloaks would probably be more historically accurate. I might repaint them at some point, but I actually quite like the red cloaks so I won't be in any hurry to do so! (EDIT - see further helpful commentary and link on this issue of cloak colour in comments section below, by John Edmunson!).

I've done two skirmisher bases for each regiment, bringing numbers of each regiment to 30 strong.

Advice for doing Hungarian trousers (other than "DON'T!"). Paint the trousers blue. Paint the yellow stripes and twists, which will need a white base coat first as yellow doesn't paint over blue very well. Then tidy up with blue around the stripes and twists. Then for the twists - dot in some black dots using end of a toothpick. Use same technique with the toothpick to get the black dot in the centre of the yellow helmet badge.