It occurred to me while I was away that I'm still quite a bit short of the command figures needed to lead my Prussians. I'm going to need another three if I'm to have a commander-in-chief and enough regimental commanders to lead my four close-order battalions and two cavalry regiments.
Marcus Hinton made only four Prussian command figures, so I've decided to have a go at a few conversions for my final three commanders.
Pictured is my first attempt, He's been painted to represent a Generaladjutant von der Infanterie. Gneisenau considered that there was a little too much of the cavalry spirit at General Headquarters and so this promising young infantry officer was despatched from Berlin bearing important new orders.I'm hoping that the next post will feature a newly completed Guards artillery battery. The Prussian Grand Manoeuvres will start as soon as these are ready!
It was great to see you when you were in the UK. Looking forward to seeing your photo's of the game.
ReplyDeleteHi Stuart, it was a great pleasure to meet you.
DeleteI'm still sorting through the photos, but they'll be on the blog soon.
A clever and effective conversion Matt - very nice!
ReplyDeleteVery nice of you to say so, because they're rubbish photos! I'll try to get a better shot of him next to my new battery when they're finished.
DeleteHe is excellent. I'm having self doubts now about having just converted my spare Gneisenau into a Russian flugeladjutant. Gnash. Shame you didn't visit the Norfolk highlands while in the UK. Do you have any hints on getting the angle right when swapping heads?
ReplyDeleteArchduke, it would have been a pleasure! I'll make sure to pass by your way the next time I'm in Blighty.
DeleteIn this case the important thing was to get a good 30 degree downward cut from the top of the collar on the back of the neck to just below the chin on my guardsman, which wasn't easy as he had a greatcoat roll blocking the left side of his face. He still wasn't a perfect fit, but with a bit of filing and overpainting I was able to make it look more or less convincing. Thank heavens for those high Napoleonic collars!
Great work Matt...looks like a lovely figure and frankly, looks as though he is an original HH. Colonels are hard to do, at least in part because the HInton command are generals and thus on fancy staff saddles and shabraques. If only I had known then how useful they would be I'd have bought more of the two oart comnand figures and spare hrses whch don't have a roll n the shabraque. There is a paricularly neat hrse with a leopard or lionskin on the hrse which is great for hussar colonels.
ReplyDeleteThanks LG! Despite the fact that he looks like he's got an exploding bottle of guinness on his head (or is it an albino octopus?), I'm quite pleased with him!
DeleteIf I ever get round to doing a phase-two Prussian Army I'm going to need to be a lot more inventive!
Fantastic conversion. It must be a little daunting chopping up an HH original!
ReplyDeleteCheers, Matt.
DeleteYou'll have noticed that I generally take the risk only with figures that have already been damaged!
Very nice indeed
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Thanks, Paul
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