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More Austrians enter the fray. Austrian Grenzers from Perry Miniatures. These are metal models, which are ok, though still quite a lot of flash compared to some Murawski Miniatures I picked up recently. Of course they are also much cheaper than Murawski so can't complain really!
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I'm also not a fan of this Grenz uniform! It has annoying to paint Hungarian trousers with braiding and stripes, and then ugly brown jackets on top of that. Painting and basing is also made awkward because they have their muskets held at all sorts of sloppy angles - which makes sense given they are somewhat irregular troops of course, but it's right near the end of the Challenge and I don't need this sort of bother right now! ;) Grumble etc..
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Anyway enough ranting, here they are... I've done one unit with yellow facings and the other with green facings.
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From Curt:
A fabulous entry Mark! I've always liked the Hungarian blue trousers, but, like you, I'm no great fan of the brown jacket of the Grenzers. Nonetheless, you've made them look absolutely smashing here. Well done!
A fabulous entry Mark! I've always liked the Hungarian blue trousers, but, like you, I'm no great fan of the brown jacket of the Grenzers. Nonetheless, you've made them look absolutely smashing here. Well done!
Fab work Mark, even if you hated painting them :)
ReplyDeleteAnother great job.. It must be a good sized army now
ReplyDeleteI appreciate all the hard work involved with these. But as I am not a Napoleonics fan I cannot enjoy them as much as I am sure they deserve.
ReplyDeleteI really like Austrians, whenever they come up against my French they always run off very obliging chaps. These are really nicely painted, great job!
ReplyDeleteFunny that , happens with me too..
DeleteWell I like them!, great work on these, I know the brown kind of goes against the rest of the colour but you have done a great job of working it all together
ReplyDeleteIan
Great, did the Austrians have the fashion police instead of a provost marshall
ReplyDeleteThey look really nice maybe its because I painted so many Continentals in my early years and confederate in more recent years but I like the look of brown uniforms. Yours look very sharp.
ReplyDeleteThese look great! I do like the brown of the Grenzers...gives them a humble sort of counterpoint to the flashy blue pants :)
ReplyDeleteSo colourful yet brown jackets - quite an odd effect. Your bright colours are smashing once again, can we see a pic of the whole force? I bet it looks damned impressive together.
ReplyDeleteThanks all! Glad to have them out of the way, that's for sure. :)
ReplyDeleteColourful and impressive. Cheers
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