Sunday 9 June 2019

Prussian Grenadiers 1806 Jena

Elite Miniatures early Prussians on the basing table

As most of you who regularly follow this blog are aware, I am building a force of Elite Miniature figures to be able to fight battles during the period often referred to as Napoleons "Glory Years".  That is of course the wonderful 1805-07 period which saw the armies of the First Empire take on the Russians, Austrians and Prussians regularly and most often, with legendary success.

The Russians are almost complete, at least the amount that I am going to paint, have painted and base up.  The final muster has a few more units to be added but is 95% complete and will be the subject of a total muster post at another time.

The Austrians for this period have been quietly being added to and I can happily say they have started to come on very nicely.  Once again, all Elite Miniatures (well nearly all), in resplendent early uniforms complete with leather helmet etc.  They will have a muster sometime in the next few months as well.

Prussian Jagers from a beautiful Osprey colour plate
 The next step is to add some skirmish bases for the Prussians.  The uniforms for the light troops in this period are lovely and I have a good friend preparing to paint me up a few for the collection in coming weeks.

12 comments:

  1. Excellent miniatures, Carlo! I also love this period.

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    1. Thank you Sergey. It is certainly a period which for whatever reason does not seem to be wargamed all that much outside of the Wargames Holiday Centre.

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  2. Keep on trucking so battles may be fought with glorious painted troops! 😀

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  3. Certainly will Stew - 10-4 good buddy!

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  4. I do love the Prussian uniforms of this period, even if they didn't fight terribly well! :-)

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    1. So do I Peter. I'm looking forward to having a division of Saxons and Prussians out on the tabletop finding bicorne clad French sometime in August with a bit of luck.

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  5. Lovely looking Prussians! They're a great looking ( if not terribly successful) army!
    Best Iain

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    1. I'll be very keen to see them on the field Iain as Ive always wanted to have an 1806 Prussian and Saxon force to play with since the days of seeing Pete Morebys figures in Wargames Illustrated

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  6. It looks like there is nothing for it but to join with the others and profess my appreciation for the looks of the 1806 Prussian Army. Luverlee!

    Salute
    von Peter himself
    https://vonpeterhimself.wordpress.com/

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    1. Why thank you very much kind sir. As a devoted Prussian collector Peter I always knw you would appreciate the slightly earlier version of the lads.

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