Finally I am up and running in this years AHPC15. Way behind compared to last year which was my first time having a go. I was better prepared this year but life got in the way - of course that's what hobbies are about - fitting them in.
First up I offer a couple of squadrons (my scale) of Prussian Hussars - the 8th Regiment circa 1848 to be precise. What I hear you say - those are 1806 Hat Napoleonic Prussian Hussars sporting the even then the venerable "flugelmutze". Well yes the models are Hat figures. Fortunately for 1848 followers the Prussians went retro at the same time as going cutting edge with their spikey helments and frockcoats.
Now I confess these figures were started back on the 13/01/2023 (sadly I have a painting diary with such detail) and they were on the paint table for AHPC14 but kept being bounced. So proper LIMBO figures then.
Having finally made it into the Wargaming Erratics Painting Portrait, I reckon they get me off the mark with 4 x 1/72 or 20mm mounted figures plus a LIMBO bonus.
So the score is 4x8 = 32 pts plus 20pts for the 1st circle of the abyss - LIMBO.
TOTAL SCORE = 52pts
Also this is the very first outing for my "painting portrait" theme for 2025 with a brand new backdrop painted today by yours truly. 2024 has turned out to be the last year of my "painting pedestal" theme - the pedestal got sold!
Onwards and upwards or maybe that should say onwards and downwards into the 2nd circle of the abyss.
Good to see you on board, John! Yes, life does tend to get in the way, doesn't it? Well, you seem to have succeeded in pushing it back a bit, as I even see two entries from you today! I like these Prussian retro-hussars a lot. What rules are you using for them? And why 1848, the Year of Revolutions? Incidentally, your painting backdrop looks really good.
52 points then!
Martijn
Retro hussars, love it. Great backdrop and cavalry painting.
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DeleteLovely work here. Great idea on the backdrop, simple yet super effective
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DeleteNice painting on the Hussars and backdrop.
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DeleteThanks Martijn for the nice comments and questions, first why 1848? well unlike napoleonics, crimea or ACW etc some mid C19th wars are a bit messy. 1848 was a very disrupted year with revolution across the continent, one driver being severe famine in previous years. Of course it was the era of political awakening with the likes of Marx, Engels and the Chartists. So I tend to use 1848 as a catch all as well as using specific wars. These Prussians would have been suppressing the revolutionaries in Prussia when they were not helping in the North German Confederation trying to nick Schleswig Holstein off the Danes. I do wargame my figures - so they are painted with purpose - most often Neil Thomas (he even published a dedicated rule book for this century) but sometimes Fire & Fury (adapted) and "There are your guns".
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