Brunswick Artillery Batteries

This my first submission for the Analogue Hobbies Painting Challenge. They have netted me 150 points, 7% of the way to my my goal!


They are from the excellent Perry Brothers Brunswick 28 mm collection. Nothing at all wrong with these figures, no complaint and easy to paint. I used the same technique as the Lieb Battalion, white prime with Vallejo Black Ink Airbrush followed by two progressively lighter greys from the Vallejo Model Colour range. I was using a Citadel Yellow, but I found the Vallejo Lemon Yellow had better coverage over black. I am using a Prussian Dark Blue on the unit I am painting now as the first dry brush, you will have to say what you think when I post them.

The Brunswick Corps had 2 Artillery batteries, one Foot Artillery unit under Major von Moll and one Horse Artillery unit under Captain von Heinemann. Both units were comprised of six 6 pd cannon, I use a ratio of 1 base for 2 actual cannon, so here we have 6 bases. My research indicates that the equipment were captured French or Westphalian cannon, so I have gone with an olive green colour for the woodwork.

The Horse Artillery have similar uniforms as the Hussars but with yellow facings. I probably could have done a little better job of selecting the figures, most but not all these figures appear to be running up the guns in order to position them.

The Foot Artillery wear their own specific uniform with yellow facings. These units are preparing to fire. I find 4 figures too many on these 50x80mm bases. This is my first attempt to integrate the 3 bases in respect to the terraining. A bit more work needed I think. (77742)