Summer & work distractions

The summer season warmth and a trip to Hawaii, plus a ton of work lately have choked off my posting recently, but despite this I’ve been able to make progress on organizing/ reorganizing many units.  

Still a little ashamed to say that despite receiving them in October last year, I have not finished processing all of my bulk purchase of Hat Austrian German fusiliers off their sprus, glued on parts and organized into battalion bags yet.  Only 2 more battalions of these left to be cut off spru & bagged, but many battalions were bagged without all parts glued on, so still have work to do on them. 

Made more progress on switching out the French command figures so that the French line, light & guard unit infantry figure colors now match that of the command figures.  Also used some of the Hat French carabiniers as grenadiers in a few French line infantry battalions (as several regiments grenadiers still wore the bearskins in 1809).  This has also allowed me to improve the composition of many French line battalions.

I know I keep talking about this but haven’t shown anything in a while, but I hope to get some units out to take pictures soon.  That said, I am spending a few weeks upstate spending time with my mom & sister, so it may be a while. 

Cheers to a happy summer!

Non-Wagram figures: Timpo Highland Infantry

Despite their obvious flaws (only 4 usable troop poses, excess of wounded figure in sets, short muskets and bayonets, etc) I have always loved these figures.  This is mostly because I think they capture the proud bold posture of their subject.  In particular the flag bearer pose, which I think is one of the best 1/32 plastic figures ever made, really embodies the Highlander’s strength & bravery in battle. Even include a good bagpiper and officer poses.

These figures have been out of production for decades, but only in the last 2 years have they become very hard to find & very expensive even on EBay.  Most of mine were acquired starting 20 years ago, before I seriously started my Wagram collection.  A couple years ago I took out what I had and sought to organize them in battalions similar to what I was doing for my Wargram figures, and realized I had too many for a single battalion, and too few for 2.  Slowly fixed this, buying whatever sets I found available for a decent price, but I hadn’t bought any in about 2 years.  Until this week, where a found a set of 17 figures that included the number of key poses I needed to fill out the 2 bats, and at a fair price.  While I pose had been partially painted, it wasn’t one I needed, so he didn’t make it into the battalions.

So here they are; laid out together, with the top 4 rows constituting my 1st highland regiment (firing) and the next 3 rows my 2nd highland regiment (advancing).  I may set them up and take more pics before I put them away.  

What do others think of this set?

More reorganization of bats based on new Hat figure colors

 Still working through making all the changes to my units to adjust for this after taking a while to plan it out.  Didn’t want to just wing it and end up with a living room covered in piles of figures for a week while I tried to figure it out on the fly.

Good news is I think it will improve the looks of my French army units as now the dark blue French troops (for the most part) and other French units will have NCOs & officers in the same color.  Because the Hat Chassuers aren’t available in the dark blue, and I had an old set of the Caribiniers in the same light blue as the new restock Chassuers I used a few of the Caribiniers in each color to fill out the bats as Grenadiers in 3 regiments that historically had their Grenadiers in bearskins in 1809; 

2nd line regiment & 56th line regiment in dark blue

French 1st line regiment (army of Italy) in light blue

Also am totally reorganizing Army of Italy units to assure each division’s composition makes sense from both a color standpoint but also the mix of firing and ready unit figures.

I will post pics and the reorg when done.

Cheers