Just finished painting the HaT Lutzow Freikorps who are joining the burgeoning forces of Prussia. These figures share a box with Nassau Grenadiers, who will get painted at some point when I get to working on Wellington's allied infantry for the Waterloo campaign.
These are quite nice figures, even though (as is clear) I really can't paint. I have added a musician from the HaT Prussian Command set and an officer who started out as a HaT Austrian Grenzer. The flagpole is a spare from another HaT set and the flag itself is (badly) painted by me. It is also the wrong flag, as I discovered after gluing it onto the pole! The actual Freikorps flag should have looked like this:
The flag that I copied is actually post-war, dating from 1816 and is the flag of the student Lutzow Fellowship in Jena. Bugger! Still the colours look nice and it is recognisably different form the normal Prussian flags, plus I cant be arsed so I think I'm gonna keep it.
The Freikorps in line with skirmishers deployed. Each casualty figure is for when a base (6 figures) is removed due to losses. As my standard infantry unit size is 24 figures (4 bases), this would represent 50% casualties, after which it the unit would be combat ineffective and most likely routed off the table.
The Lutzow Freikorps dyed their clothes black, but I have painted them dark grey which I think works better with their black equipment and straps, and in any case the dyed clothes would have faded over time and I doubt they would have been super smartly attired. I shall probably do the same thing when I come to painting the Brunswick Corps for Waterloo.
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