Pegasus Hobbies

As the fourth year of Suburban Militarism on WordPress comes to a close and a New Year looms, it’s a time for reflection. Swedish Napoleonic cavalrymen; Ottoman Turkish artillerymen; Serbian and Austrian infantry of the Great War; Belgian Carabinier cyclists; 28mm Yeomanry figures based on illustrations by Marrion; Saxon Cuirassiers and not forgetting some Napoleonic Poles back in January.

So, here’s a brief pictorial overview of some of the figures painted over 2018.

RedBox Ottoman Turkish Artillery (17th Century)
Strelets Polish Napoleonic Infantry, 12th Regiment.
Strelets Polish Napoleonic Infantry, 13th Regiment.
HaT Belgian WWI Carabinier Cyclists
Caesar French WWI Infantry (1914)
Cracker Battery, Christmas Artillery.
Caesar French WWI Infantry with St. Étienne machine gun.
Pegasus WWI Infantry (1917) with Hotchkiss machine gun.
HaT Swedish Cuirassier
Strelets Serbian Infantry in winter dress (1917)
Dorset Soldiers, 3rd County of London Yeomanry (Sharpshooters), 1902-07.
Dorset Soldiers, Westmorland and Cumberland Yeomanry, 1905-14.
Pegasus WWI French Infantry (1917)
Zvezda Saxon Cuirassier
Strelets Serbian Infantry in winter dress (1914)
Dorset Soldiers, 3rd County of London Yeomanry (Sharpshooters), 1905.
Strelets Austro-Hungarian Infantry (1914)
Strelets Austro-Hungarian Infantry in Gasmasks (1914)
Dorset Soldiers, Sussex Imperial Yeomanry, 1905.
HaT Swedish Scanian Carabiniers
HaT Swedish Horse Guards of the King
HaT Swedish Morner Hussars
Hat Swedish Smaland Light Dragoons

Looking forward to 2019, I know well enough by now not to forecast my painting plans in any great detail as distractions lead me on to other unforeseen areas over the year! However, currently demanding my attention are:

My Ottomania project – now well under way with the artillery corps progressing nicely;
The Great War project – I have a number of excellent kits I intend to tackle as I continue to develop my WWI collection;
Some 54mm Yeomanry cavalry figures are crying out for attention;
I have my eye on a couple of soon-to-be-released new figures for 2019;
And of course, there’s the Nappy Cavalry Project which continues proudly into its fifth year being now up to 31 regiments strong!

My ever growing pile of unpainted model soldier kits suggests the likely fate of at least some of these hobby intentions, however!

Best wishes for a happy and peaceful 2019 to all Suburban Militarism’s friends and visitors!

Marvin

Having posted on the machine gun crews, I’ve now completed the rest of the Pegasus box of WWI French infantry, so here are some pics of the end result. The figures wear the Horizon Blue coat and Adrian helmet. The trousers are white which were worn by some French units when serving on the Salonika front in 1917-18, which these troops are supposed to represent.

A chap on Benno’s Figures Forum queried whether the white trousers would have been such a bright shade. My response was ‘probably not’, but my WWI encylcopedia states that the trousers worn overseas on the Salonika or Macedonian front were “Horizon Blue or white”, so I suppose that can be taken literally as I have here. Shades and colours during WWI could vary considerably for many nations suffering supply problems with clothing and dyes, so these trousers are probably as likely worn as anything else!

Below are two figures carrying the Chauchat light machine guns, a weapon featured and discussed in previous posts.

Another nicely sculpted figure is in the act of throwing a hand grenade. An illustration in my WWI encyclopedia depicted French hand grenades having been painted in the same horizon blue as the uniform, for some reason, and I’ve reproduced that here.

The officer wears leather gloves and leather gaiters instead of puttees. He’s armed with a revolver and beckoning his men to follow.

The separate arms allowed for a number of figures advancing with their rifles at different angles, like these poilus below:-

Pegasus French WWI (22) — En avant! Vive la France!

The firing figures came together very nicely, once again in very convincing poses:

There were also two kneeling poses which once again I thought were very effective.

They certainly took their time to paint up, despite the fact that I didn’t paint the whole box, just about 2/3rds of it. .I’m not sure why painting these figures seemed so demanding on this occasion. All I can say is that I think the end result is one that I’m pleased with and so it was all well worth the effort.

These are probably the last WWI figures I’ll paint for 2018 I think, although I’ve a number of kits ready for resuming the project again next year. Meanwhile, I’ve been making plans on what to paint in the run up to 2019, more on which will be announced in due course.

Until then – On ne passe pas! On les aura! En avant et vive la France!