My latest indulgence

 

This week I have mostly painting Irregular Miniatures 2mm 7YW Prussians and Austrians. Nice little blocky types in a variety of sizes. I ordered one Prussian and one Austrian and once they arrived and I knew what I was working with I could work out base sizes etc. The Prussian chaps were made up of 3-deep blocks but the Austrians were only 2-deep so I decided to go with 4 blocks for the Prussians and two for the  Austrians, all on 50 x 30 mdf bases. Making a line 10mm from the top and marking the centre this was to be the position of the standard. (Unfortunately, all the moulded on standards –although probably in scale- were simply too small to get any kind of distinctive colours on, so they all had to be cut off. This was true for the cavalry as well). A quick drill with a pin vice made the hole for the standard pole –a pin cut to 12mm leaving the pinhead on- and a dab of Superglue set it in place. Going with my usual plan to hand paint all my standards I cut a rectangle 14mm x 5mm making the standards 5mm square and 4 to wrap around the pin. Cavalry standards were dealt with in the same fashion. Now before any bl**dy wargames police start going apoplectic about standard sizes and numbers per regiment blah, blah blah, this system works perfectly fine for me, and I think is much more pleasing on the eye!

So I now present some pictures of my very 2mm chaps in the form of the first Prussian infantry brigade for the Battle of Lobositz taken from the excellent source material that is the Kronoskaf site. https://www.kronoskaf.com/syw/index.php?title=1756-10-01_-_Battle_of_Lobositz  (P.S. I still have the command base to do).