1866 JAGERS FOR ONE HOUR SKIRMISH

 

9th Prussian Jagers in action at Gravelotte, 1870

Austrian Kaiser Jager, 1866

Greetings, dear reader(s).  The blogging tempo 'round here has been a bit slacker than it's usual rate (which could best be described as "tepid"). Real life has been interfering with art, but there has been activity on the hobby front, and I've managed to steal a brief interlude to put together a brief "show and tell" post on a recent pair of additions to my One Hour Skirmish "Musket to Rifle" collection.  Specifically, I've added two contingents of Jagers (for those not familiar, "jager" is german for "hunter"), one Prussian and one Austrian.  Each of these sets will provide enough figures to play a substantial One Hour Skirmish game. These figures are former Northstar, now to be found among the Eagles of Empire offerings.  As usual, in this post, you may clix pix for BIG PIX. 

PRUSSIAN JAGERS

Completed contingent of Prussian Jagers.

Study of the figures and my treatment of them: I find these figures not only historically spot on, but superbly suited for conveying vignettes given their realistic proportions and poses.  

Prussian specialty figures: left to right: NCO, Officer, and Trumpeter. 

AUSTRIAN JAGERS

Completed contingent of Austrian Jagers

Study of the Austrians and my treatment of them: like the Prussians (and all the figures in the Old Northstar/Eagles of Empire 1866 line), the dynamic poses and variety are particularly well suited to small unit use where each model stands on its own. 

Austrian Leader figures: Officer flanked by two NCOs. 

Detail of one of the Austrian NCOs.  These were a study in gray tones. I used a drybrush of Humbrol mid blue over the gray of the trousers to render the distinctive "pike gray" that differentiates them from the overcoat gray (refer to the opening picture of the Austrian Kaiser Jager for an illustration).

With these two new contingents, I have expanded my options for One Hour Skirmish gaming to 1866: Prussian versus Austrian "hunters": a classic combination!

Excelsior!