Austrians, snakes, dead and undead

 My FLGS had a sale recently, and I bought some Victrix Austrian Landwehr (56 of them) for less than a packet of 8 official North Star Austrians cost. So for no really good reason (I already have two warbands) I made an Austrian Silver Bayonet unit. 

These are all made from that Landwehr box (well, giant ziplock bag), with just a few bits from Frostgrave boxes and Warlord's Pike & Shotte cavalry. From left to right here we have a Jäger (light infantry), a dhamphir (with an unhealthy complexion, and a nasty looking ancient bronze knife), my officer, a grenadier and an occultist. The dhamphir was made from the standard bearer body, and the occultist from the drummer. The top hat on the occultist is a converted corsehut, the funny looking hat half the unit wears. 

These last four are all provincial soldiers from the Vienna Volunteers. There's only three in the warband, but I happened to build an extra, so he got painted up as well. 

I traded one of the landwehr sprues for a sprue of Wargames Atlantic's new zombies, and I used the tricorn hats to build spectral soldiers. These sorta look a bit like what I think Austrians looked like in the 1780's, but don't quote me on that. This way I saved the actual Napoleonic heads for revenants, if I ever get around to replacing my generic fantasy zombies.

The spectral soldiers are for the Italy campaign, and in that you also need some dead bodies. Most of them are home cast zombies from a Prince August mould, I just removed their integral bases and weapons, and bent some limbs so they'd lie more flat. One of them has a plastic arm as well. The clothed guy use another landwehr body, treated the same way, but with a metal zombie head. He reminds me of The Scream. I decided not to base them, since they'll just lie around and can't fall over. This way they are stackable as well.

Last we have some snakes for Egypt, these are from a Dead Mans Hand blister. The colours are all imaginary, and just used left overs.

 

More NPCs for The Silver Bayonet

 This time I've finished more models for The Silver Bayonet.

 

First we have the mounted version of my Bedouin for the Egyptian unit. It's made with the torso of a GB Dark Age warrior, the legs of a Perry knight (well, Mounted Men at Arms), a rifle arm from a Perry zouave, and the same head as on the foot version. The horse is from a Prince August 25mm mould.

 

 

 

Next we have a couple of vampires. They're Noble Vampires from the Frostgrave range, and look like they've been hanging out in Transylvania somewhere. The poor peasant on the ground is a Norman casualty figure, with a new head to make it more generic.

 

Here are three Frenchmen, they'll be used for the roving patrols in the Italy campaign. They'll obviously fit as Frenchmen and deserters, and since they have greatcoats on, which my other French doesn't, they're clearly different enough, so they will probably moonlight as English patrolmen as well.

Last we have some bandits or briganti. If they look like old Warhammer militia models, well, that's because they are. I wouldn't get around to build more models for Mordheim, so this was a use for the old sprues. I tried to make them as non-fantasy and modern as possible, so no helmets and armour. Yes, these doesn't look like briganti should, but they look generic enough I think.