10mm Seven Years War Prussians for Pendrakens competition

These are my entries for Pendraken's painting competition. It is surprising what can be done with 10mm miniatures. These figures are far more detailed than some of the 15mm castings of yesteryear (if there is such a word.)

Everything is based on 0.8mm thick formica. I bought the material in an 8 feet by 4 feet sheet. It is intended for laminating desks, tables, etc. In sizes of up to a couple of inches square, it is very rigid. It doesn't warp, and you can cut it with scissors.

All the flags are hand painted.

These are the famous 5th "Brandenburg" Cuirassier.

The Prussian 5th Black" or "Death Hussars". A 'must have' for all budding Fredericks.

King Frederick William, of Prussia, had a big fetish for big men. He accumulated two and a half thousand large men, most over six feet tall, and some more than seven, by any means, including kidnapping. When Frederick the Great (Frederick the second) ascended to the throne he reformed the late King's beloved Lieb-Grenadier regiment into a single Grenadier Guard battalion. This is a depiction of that battalion.

A twelve pounder Prussian artillery piece & crew.

This is the 40th Infantry Regiment, a Fusilier regiment, from the Prussian army of Seven Years War. I think they were uniformed on the same principle laid out in Johnny Cash's song "A boy named sue." Wearing this sort of clobber turns you into a hard man after one visit to the local pub ;-)

10mm TB line miniatures Warmaster Ancients (WMA)

When they aren't busy making Bond girls, the Italians turn their hand to expertly crafting fine 10mm figures. These figures are from Tridente Bologna's TB line miniatures. They are Central European Peasants with bow (TB4180). I have them based for Warmaster Ancients, to play the WMA Medieval supplement. I've painted eight units but only took pictures of a couple of units as the only difference between units is the tabbard colours.



I have many, many, more units in the pipeline. Actually, I think I have everything 10mm Medieval miniature they sell. I have some more peasants, with various weapons, close to completion and Teutonic knights that almost ready.

Old Glory 28mm 1st edition Bavarian infantry

I haven't posted in a while. This is my opening salvo for the new year. I have finished thirteen battalions of Bavarian infantry: ten line and three light. Each unit is 36 men strong. This should be enough Bavarian infantry to be going on with. Actually, I have enough castings for a few more units. I am thinking of painting one as Baden infantry.
The figures are full of character. People who like Front Rank probably hate them.

Old Glory 28mm Fuzzie Wuzzies

I saw pictures of Peter Guilder's Sudan collection in Battle Games magazine. Ispirational stuff. I would like to put on colonial games at some point in the future. I decided to buy one bag of Fuzzie Wuzzie from Old Glory to see what the figures are like. For colonial enemies I want to have an inexpensive bulk. With OGs army card, these figures work out at just under $20 for 32 figures.


The figures are quite detailed and paint up nicely. I think I will be buying more.

Crusader 28mm WW2 British, Germans and Russians II

Following a suggestion of "Combat Painter" I painted one more German, this time a bit more green.

Crusader 28mm WW2 British, Germans and Russians

I have been a big fan of Crusader WW2 figures for a long time. I bought them in wild excess, from shows, from flea markets, and even traded for them. I just haven't gotten around to painting them until now! Oh well, eventually everything bubbles up to the top of the lead pile.


I like to paint the Soviets in a variety of colours, to reflect their ragged appearance. If you look at pictures of Soviet soldiers, not the posed ones!, you can see that variety of shades is greater than in other contemporary armies. Tops and bottoms often mismatched.



I made these fences after seeing some nice terrain at Salute earlier this year. I have also made some barbed wire obstacles, using scale barbed wire you can buy at shows.






I will probably start selling these as ready painted, both to reduce my collection and so I can diversify into some BAM / Warlord figures to create (even more) variety. Price will probably be $4 per figure, with $5 for the Paras in Cammo. This is a lot cheaper than sending the figures out to me to be painted. BTW, these are at my Museum standard.

I picked up three 28mm German vehicles along the way. I will be trying my hand at these soon.

HAT 28mm Plastic Prussians

HAT sent me some of their plastic Prussians. Here they are, based up for "In The Grand Manner."

Others have already made comparisons of the size of these figures in relation to other miniatures (see here.) I won't say much about assembly except to mention that most figures are two part castings; a back pack piece and then the rest of the figure. It wasn't a big deal to take them off the sprue and clean them up.

I think the detail on the is are good. HAT already make Bavarians and some French. I think the figures cost about ten pounds a box. There are 32 figures in a box.