Season’s Greetings

Is it just me or does this Imperial Guard Horse Artillery Gunner look a bit like Father Christmas? Just me then. The figure is a vintage Hinton Hunt casting of:

FN181 Guard Horse Artillery Gunner with porte-fire

This is a superb little model that was a real joy to paint. I have the rest of the crew nearly completed but they will have to wait until the New Year now before they can join their colleague.

The hills are alive…

…with the sound of yodelling Tirolean Jagers. These are vintage Hinton Hunt figures from the Napoleonic Austrian range. Nice little models, they are:

AN40 Jager Officer, quick march
AN41 Jager bugler, quick march
AN43 Jager advancing
AN44 Jager firing

I painted most of these before I had finalised the unit sizes for my new Hinton Hunt army. Initially I had 16 figures in the unit but have since decided to make all light infantry units 18 figures strong.