Back at the last Historicon in Frederiscksburg, in 2017. I acquired the somewhat insane amount of roughly 300 Old Glory Austrian Napoleonic Infantry for $100. It's been 2 years, and I just now decided to finally sort out exactly what I had on hand! This was prompted by the 90 Austrian Line that I am painting right now, which will exhaust my supply of same, otherwise. While the bulk of the figures were in there original bags, there were quite a few more that were loose and somewhat mixed up.
Next, it was time to sort out the loose figures
2 bags of 30 German Line in Shako, 2 bags of 30 German Line in Shako, Attack-March, 1 bag of German Line in Shako, Road March (I especially like these!), and 1 bag of German Grenadiers, 180 figures in all.
Next, it was time to sort out the loose figures
The loose figures included 1 group of 30 more German Line in Shako, Advancing,plus another 18 of same, 17 more Germ an Line in Shako Attack-March, 8 more German Line in Shako Marching, 4 Falling wounded and 1 lying wounded, 13 German Line Command in Shako (3 standard bearers, 4 drummers, 4 Officers, and 2 NCO's, plus 3 mounted colonels sans horses), 7 German Grenadier command (4 standard bearers, 2 drummers, 1 officer) plus a spare Grenadier Marching, and 4 wounded Grenadiers., plus another 12 German Line command, but these in Helmets. That's 118 more figures, just shy of 300 altogether.
With my usual scheme (18 figures per unit), that's enough to make
2 units of Grenadiers
7 units of Line Advancing
7 units of Line Attack-March
3 units of Line Marching.
I'd need to add 3 sets of Old Glory Line command (20 each) to have the necessary cadres... assuming I ever paint anywhere near that many of them!
Still, I can paint a LOT of Austrians in a fairly short time; these 90 are nearing completion and will be appearing on the blog soon! :-)
A good number to get through! I have 3 boxes of unopened Victrix ones looking at me balefully from corner of room... :)
ReplyDeleteThe biggest thing impeding my painting these, is that the ONLY reason that I would "need" these would be to run Wagram again... which I DO plan to do within the next few years, so there you go!
DeleteYes mine too haha!!
DeleteExcellent (and rapid) work. You have to love the character of Old Glory minis.
ReplyDeleteThanks; we will get a chance to review each of these regiments individually once they are fully completed! For now, it's onto a couple of French infantry units.
DeleteThe Mighty 300! Have fun painting them.
ReplyDeleteThanks, Ray; it will be a while before I tackle any of them, I wager!
DeleteTackling 90 Austrians in one go is an impressive feat, Peter! The Old Glory Napoleonic 25s certainly have a lot of character.
ReplyDelete90 infantry at a time is about my limit, but i have done it many times in the past - It goes very slowly at first, but when done it is a large mass of new troops!
DeleteI find the process painful when taking more than about two dozen 25s at one time. Pure joy when a big batch is finished, though!
DeleteI seldom paint less than 36 infantry or 16 cavalry at a time myself. Considering your productivity, maybe I should try it your way, LOL!
DeleteThat’s a lot of figures to do at one go. Chapeau!
ReplyDelete90 yes, 300... no way! :-)
DeleteNo doubt they will look excellent once done
ReplyDeleteJust got the flags for them tonight, so they should be ready for pictures this weekend!
DeleteThey look great, but I don't know how you can manage such a big batch in the one go. As you say, the feeling of satisfaction when you do finish must be great!
ReplyDeleteSays the man who has been churning out Spanish, Gauls, and what have you by the boat load the past year! :-)
DeleteThanks, Lawrence!
What a lot of Austrians! I remember your bargain purchase and look forward to some of them being completed!
ReplyDeleteBest Iain
It will likely be a while before any of "the 300" see paint yet! :-)
DeleteImpressive production Peter, all power to you!
ReplyDeleteI like painting large numbers at once, in the hundreds, but they don't come out the other end for some months... hahaha!
Yes, when you get really big, it can be a quarter or more... tyhat's more than I want to chew off all at one time!.
DeleteLooking quite wonderful Peter.
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