What HAT figures have you bought recently

Just received a box of the 1805 Prussian hussars. Nice figures....but I won't be using them. I need the horses, with their characteristic shabraques for my Airfix British Napoleonic Hussars.....who will be painted, naturally, as SYW Austrians ((Esterhazy regiment, I think).

donald

I'm waiting for the next release. The last HaT figures I bought were the HaT 7YW Austrians. I had to - if only for the boxes; some of the best looking HaT ever released.

Right now, preparing to drag out HaT Prussian Landwehr to finish them off (been waiting since I had to put them up Christmas 2018 when the family was coming in).

Good evening, I have just made up for 30 years of delay since December 2019 when I took up the brushes again.



Lots of boxes bought second-hand.

All that remains is to paint them...

There haven't been too many new HAT sets in 1:32 for many at year. In the meantime I have had to rely on the products from other manufacturers such as Expeditionary Force, LOD, Replicants and Victrix mainly with their Napoleonic figures but also figures from their ancient series - especially Greek and Roman.

One HAT series in 1:32 I have consistently returned to over the years have been all three of the SYW Prussians. These have provided enough not just to explore and paint up the diversity of Prussian regiments but also to tackle armies from the other armies in the conflict. This has been easiest using the musketeers with tricornes. In this way I have created Austrians, Bavarians, Russians and soon Saxons. With the Austrian musketeers I added a bit of foliage to their hats. For the Austrian grenadiers I adapted the shorter Prussian grenadier caps with the use of Milliput to create a bearskin on the front and extended cap and tassel on the back which I was reasonably pleased with once painted up. Warflags has offered a diversity of flag colours for the command sets.

I am hoping that the arrival of new sets from Hat in both the SYW period and Napoleonic periods in 1:32 will mark a return to the situation where there was regular flow of figures from HAT again. There have been promises of more Napoleonic infantry from HAT hopefully in the not too distant future. How great it would be for them to tackle cavalry and artillery for both the Napoleonic and SYW periods in 1:32. We have to give them as much feedback and encouragement as we can to spur them along in this respect.

Well it's good to know that you are returning to painting after such a long time.

Your hobby space is immaculate, much more so than mine - which is larger but much less well-organised.

The dilemma of course is the boxes on the shelves. As you paint sets do you then open up spaces on the shelves...which then need to be filled with new sets? Or do you keep the empty boxes for old times sake? Or, as usually happens with me, do you start something new which puts pressure on your available storage space?

Enjoy the hobby!

I was thinking it was a very neat painting area - mine is terrible (but productive) a friend once that mine looks like a desk with a bit of everything on that someone has then poured a box full of figures out on top of...
Anyway - most recent delivery was Austrian Chevauxlegers - first in a long time (only to find I already had a box on said messy desk).

This week I've managed to get Hat's WW1 Anzacs, AZW British inf, Zulus and general service wagon (which I am pleased about as most of the AZW range is now out of stock everywhere again.

As I took back the brushes not long ago, I don't have any space problem for the finished miniatures for the moment.

I have a whole room to myself and I still have a large wall to put the shelves.

I don't keep empty boxes on the shelf, I replace them with full ones.

I admit that when I work it's a little less tidy but I make a point of only taking out one can of paint at a time and putting it away immediately afterwards so as not to clutter up the office as I could do when I was young. It's not simple but it's enough to respect as much as possible.

As for my most recent HaT purchases: started buying single sprues rather than entire packs, mainly to avoid waste.

French Napoleonic heavy ambulance — just one, and British Napoleonic command - single sprue.

The ambulance will be a nice little addition to the wargames table, for special scenarios, and as a “physic” for Sharp Practice.

The British command are to accompany my HaT British inf in stovepipe shakos. Not a fan of those figures, and I won’t be buying any more of them, but they still need officers!

Yes, @roger W, they’re the old British Light Infantry. I’ve painted up 16 of them and they look pretty crap, but I notice that when there’s more of them they look distinctly less crap. Perhaps I need to expand my British battalions to 20 or 24 men? (I’ve only recently expanded up to 16 from 12!).

They’re meant to represent one of my fave regiments, the 28th North Gloucesters. Now, I’m a firm believer that if you don’t love your troops, how do you expect them to fight for you? So this puts me in a slight quandary.

Anyways, I have two packs of these HaT LI, bought fairly cheaply, so no great drama.