Grand Duchy of Baden Jaegers

As per my previous post below are some photos of Piano Wargames figures of Baden Jaegers. I have had some issues with Photoshop Elements - I had to replace my computer motherboard and now Adobe won't accept my serial number so I have installed GIMP to touch up the photos which requires some learning so the photos are not as good as I would like but I hope to improve my photo image quality with the infantry I am painting next.

Also, here are some reference pictures for the Grand Duchy of Baden infantry.

Historically, I found this link informative and useful for historical background:  https://www.scribd.com/document/861523330/The-Army-of-the-Grand-Duchy-of-Baden-1806-1814-e

So my first Baden figures are a company of jaegers. Infantry, dragoons and artillery to follow (eventually!) I kept them in movement trays because I think they look good.

I think this is important health information

 Hi all and yes I am still around!

I recently came across this blog entry that I would like to link to here on the safety aspects of our hobby. I know many of us work in confined spaces and I think this post from Jacksarge painting is VERY relevant and cudos to him for making it

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KfuMHejuAq0

I have just finished a squad of Piano Warganes Baden light infantry, pics to follow soon. I thought that being mostly green, the figures would be easy to paint - how wrong I was. The sculpts are lovely though.

Chris

A Tyrolean scene circa 1809

 My second scene is again with Piano Wargames figures. I view it as an off duty French officer chatting with a Tyrolean hunter, does the hunter's bag over his shoulder contain rabbits for the pot? Is his dog desperate to run off? Is the officer asking for advice. I think we can all put our own thoughts to the scene.

Imperial Guard Grenadier batallion finished

 I have managed to get some painting done despite this time of year (winter); being my busy time in the garden before the heat of summer returns around late September. There is quite a lot to do as I have a reasonable sized yard and I do like to grow what food I can (organically) as well as care for my various orchids and other rainforest plants.

Anyhow, two posts today as I did the figures consecutively which seems to work for me. First of all, and I know it is a bit of a cliché, but I thought my French army needed some Guard Grenadiers to go with the Guard cavalry and artillery. So here they are (figures from https://pianowargames.de/)

Finished Lasalle figure

 Here is the finalised 28mm General Lasalle figure as mentioned in my previous post. 

For those who don't know who the falmboyant French Napoleonic cavalry general was, this link is good: https://www.frenchempire.net/biographies/lasalle/

So frustrated

 Hi all

Another whinge, I am halfway through painting my Piano French Old Guard Grenadiers and thought I would paint the General Lasalle at the same time to add variety. 

It was going pretty well until it came to doing the hussar braiding using Vallejo gold. What a nightmare, my old eyes couldn't follow the casting lines nor see the tip of the size O brush I was using. So I have to admit defeat on the fine detail and just accept I am not good enough to do the figure justice. it is so deeply frustrating.

Here is what the figure should look like (from Piano Wargames website, such an excellent job by Stephan Huber). I will post photos of mine when it is finished.

I thought I should add my figure as it is about 90% finished to the best I can.

Bavarian 2nd Chevau-Leger Regiment 'Konig'

 It has been a VERY long six months, I started these Piano Wargames figures in December 2025 but life dealt a curveball and they had to be put on hold until April. 

I really wanted to do my best as the castings by Lucas Luber are, simply, supurb so I painted the figures mostly, one at a time which also made the project longer. My intention was to try to make each figure an 'individual'. This brings my Bavarian army to completion (I am running out of storage room).

I used these images as my colour guide for the facings etc:

Not having a rear view, I guessed at how it would look from other images of Bavarian Chevau-Leger regiments that did show how the uniform looked from the rear.

Movement tray

My next project is French Imperial Guard grenadiers:

https://pianowargames.de/products/old-guard-grenadiers

https://pianowargames.de/products/old-guard-grenadiers-command

I hope I can do justice to them.

All the best to all... Chris