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On the Road to Austerlitz: A 6mm Early Napoleonics Project
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About the Project
As voted by you guys I'll be tackling a 6mm Napoleonic project. I've already got some 28mm Peninsular War British v French so decided to go for my next favourite period. Let's dive into the 1800-1805 Period. From Marengo to Austerlitz.
Related Company: Eureka Miniatures
Related Genre: Historical
This Project is Active
The First Paintjobs
It didn’t take long, drybrush, overbrush with White once or twice, black legs and helmets, muskets, facings, helmets and skin in that order.
I’m considering giving them a light wash with a Black just to make everything stand out a little more but I’m worried about ruining the white Uniforms. Any advice is much appreciated.
Also today is the anniversary of Austerlitz (1805 so it’s the 215th anniversary) which was nice to think about as I was painting these.
Part of the Infantry, I find a Black spray isn't enough so they all get the Brush treatment.
A few sweeps across with a white. This takes maybe 5 seconds per side per strip. After that do the same thing but with Black for the gaiters, then pick out the Black helmets. These weren't proper helmets just leather decorations.
The Muskets are done with Steel Legion Drab, coming in from the top with a very fine brush then turn over and repeat.
A close up, there's quite a lot of detail on these guys despite being very small even for 6mm
The Rear View, the shading looks very stark on Camera but this is very zoomed in and focused. It looks much nicer in real life
Front and Back after Facings (Wrists, Collars and Jackets although at 6mm I've settled for Wrists or Cuffs) and the Yellow on the Helmet. It should have a thin line of Black down the centre of the yellow plume but for obvious reasons I have decided not to include it. Also the front plate would be shiny metal but again for speed and unity I have made it yellow which is very close anyway.
Since these bases are going to be Brigades I've decided to mix up the facing colours as much as possible.
The Finished Product although far too zoomed in.
Much Better, Once I find something to base them on I'll work out exactly how they'll look but for now I'm going to work on getting the rest to this level.The Miniatures Have Arrived Part II
The Infantry with Command
The Skirmishers and Artillery, Artillery isn't really used in Blucher but basing up a Battery is commonly done as a marker.
Grenadiers, I didn't know that there would be Grenadiers in the Pack so I bought extra, I'll probably do another Division of them as a spare and a mixed Division.
Two Types of Officers, the Duo facing forwards and the man handing off a note
In the Middle is the freebie figure, it will make a good CiC with a few extra bits and piecesThe Miniatures Have Arrived Part I
So it begins….
My Eureka Miniatures order came through today so let me break it down. Apologies for the pictures these are 6mm minis after all
The Individual Packets
The Lancers
Same Lancers, I really like these Cavalry compared to the ACW stuff, it looks and feels much cleaner and less blobbed together.
Lancers on Sticks ready for a Spray/Paint. I thought I was so clever labelling them but we'll see how that works out a bit later on
Hussars with Carbines
Same Hussars in the Pelisse which I was happy to see stood out at 6mm
The basing Method, spaced out Cavalry on cheap shot ice block sticks
The Lancers and Hussars ready to paint
Dragoons, their charing with the sword pointed forwards which will look great but took me a while to figure out why the mane of the horse was a bit messed up
All the Cavalry, I couldn't get a good picture of the Cuirassiers but they're there. Notice the genius idea of marking the bases so I wouldn't forget what was what? Yeah I sprayed them black after this picture and totally ruined my idea, very smart.
Eureka are great people and sometime just throw in a few extras, for me these are going to be really useful, 1 pile of dead Cavalry, 1 pile of dead infantry and a High Command set with officers sitting at a table. Very happy to find these surprises.The First Order
I just placed the first order.
10 x (O)Austrian Jagers, skirmishing
8 x (L)Austrian Dragoons
12 x (C)Austrian Grenadier Infantry, advancing
8 x (L)Austrian Hussars
8 x (L)Austrian Lancers
8 x (L)Austrian Cuirassiers
6 x (L)Austrian Mounted Generals
1 x Austrian Division
All Infantry are in Strips of 6 and the Cavalry are in Strips of 4.
The Division is 12 Battalions of 48 line infantry, 60 skirmishers, 1 battery of 4 guns, 1 regiment of 36 cavalry and commander
The Period I'm doing is the early one so lots of Black Leather Helmets, none of that Shako Nonsense, even the French are in Bicorn's rather than Shako's.For a goal I found a scenario for the Battle of Marengo that I’m going to use as a guide.
https://oldmeldrumwargamesgroup.files.wordpress.com/2016/05/austrian-briefing-marengo2.pdf
I will need;
1 Brigade of “Grenzers” (Border Troops from the Eastern Part of the Empire)
2 Brigades of Grenadiers (The Austrians Continued the Practice of Bundling Grenadier Companies into full Regiments)
4 Brigades of Cavalry (I picked up a Brigade each of Hussars, Dragoons, Lancers and Cuirassiers plus whatever 36 Cavalry come in the Division)
8 Brigades of Line Infantry (72 Men per Brigade, 2x 36 arranged in Three Files of 12).
I’ve ordered all of that plus a little extra, the Grenzers wore a Shako and Eureka don’t sell any Austrians in Shako’s but I will make do possibly with Landwehr or British since at 6mm it won’t be noticed.
A Grenzer
Grenadiers, those Bearskins! These would be returned to their parent Regiments during peacetime but were almost always grouped together in Battalions for actual Combat.
The Cavalry are going to add some nice colour to break up all that White.I was flicking through the Osprey books for Early War Austrians when I found this little beauty.
Ladies and Gentlemen the 1769 Granatgewehr. A Portable Grenade Launcher. So it Begins...
"Lol Napoleon's a moron he just let us have the high ground" Some Austrian Guy
So I asked and you guys answered. I did a small 6mm American Civil War project in 6mm just to get accustomed with the scale and have a go at painting both uniformed and non-uniformed minis.
For my next Project I’ll be taking on the Early Napoleonic Period specifically the conflicts between the various different forms of France vs the Glorious Holy Roman Empire aka The Austrians, with some Russians thrown in towards the end when I get towards the final goal of a 6mm Austerlitz.
I’ve decided on Blucher as a system partly because I think the 75mm Square Bases are pretty cool and partly because it let’s me play those really massive games but scales down to also let me do some smaller stuff as well.
There’s a few ways I could base my minis so let’s take a look at some I found online.
Two 30x60mm bases front to backThis is probably the most sensible way to do it. It allows better representation of mixed Brigades, let’s me split them up for other games and makes storage/transport easier.
But I just don’t like it, I want the Massive Effect that a single large base gives, at 6mm Scale I want to see some grand armies on the table not a compromise.
The Three Battalion LineMuch better but it looks a little thin. The Austrians are always said to have these giant Battalions and this doesn’t really look right.
On that point yes the Austrians did have bigger Battalions than the French did (1080 – 840) they only outnumbered a British battalion by a whopping 80 men and the British never get a reputation of having giant Battalions.
Ah Perfection!This is how I’m going to base my minis although seeing as the Austrians did like their Skirmishers I’ll replace the Generals with some Skirmishers and move the Officers to the rear/middle/side at random.
For Miniatures my only real option is Irregular Miniatures through Eureka Miniatures here in Australia. I picked them up for my ACW stuff and while not the best they’re still great. Ordering from overseas right now looks a little risky and I’ll likely be moving around a bit in the next few months and redirecting a parcel is a giant pain in the butt.
6mm Austrians from Irregular Miniatures Website
