Seven Year War Battle Report

Been on the island now for eight weeks and am really enjoying my time at the South Wight Wargamers Club. If you are on the island and have never been then get yourselves down there! Patrick and I had promised to do a historical battle and as my favourite is Seven Years War he indulged…

Austrian Army Photos

The models are all Front Rank, Flags from Maverick Models and bases and trays from Warbases!

Seven Years War Battle Report

For a couple of months now I have been painting two SYW armies with the eventual hope of an actual war game. I have to say they have come out better than expected and given me a new and diverse (so they are all white men, mostly with massive moustaches) painting challenge in terms of…

Austrian Dragoons

So I haven’t been taking care of my little blog just recently, but I fully intend to change that. First off you are getting to see some lovely Austrian Dragoons. Why are they lovely, well Front Rank made um and I painted them, and for good measure Jason at Maverick Models made them a lovely…

Austrian Grenadiers Update

Finally finished these guys. These leaves two infantry battalions remaining. Hungarian Musketeers and Prussian Grenadiers. I still need to do army shots for Brendan even though he counts this war as Fantasy! I have done two different static grasses but to be honest not sure the lighter one is hitting the spot, semi tempted to…

Austrian Grenadiers

Marching on with the Seven Years War we are moving into what I am hoping is the final stages. Elite infantry are now being added. Austrian Grenadiers are the only ones in the period still carrying grenades, the name marking the troop type out as the biggest and best. These lads have bear skins and…

Austrian Artillery

I was a bit worried about these guys looking drab all in brown but I actually think it works well with everyone else being in white! I’m adding a Russian secret howitzer to the allies side. They like their cannons yellow in the Austria, and now I like them too!

SYW Austrian Musketeers

I found these fellas really hard work. I couldn’t figure it out to begin with. I got there, it is to do with the amount of white. One the others it was three colours to get to the same place. So once I got past the white it was plain sailing! This puts me a…