Following on from the last post, I had a pack of Magister
Militum 10mm Austrian marching grenadiers (AT103) to
hand so I was able to check the detail of the figures and
compare them with the Pendraken sculpts – a firing and
an advancing pose were also on the Magister Militum list.
While the match case and cartridge pouch were obscured
in Magister Militum’s single pose grenadier, the figure
and both the officer and drummer figures all had properly
sculpted fur caps. On the whole, the Magister Militum
Magister Militum Austrian Grenadiers
sculpts were excellent and they had lots of clear and
accurate detail. However as excellent as they were they
weren’t really my style, lacking a certain natural poise
that some other 10mm Napoleonic figures had. I also
appreciated variants of the same pose, such as
Pendraken’s two marching figures – although I had an
irrepressible appetite for more variants! It didn’t help,
either, that Magister Militum castings were more
expensive than Pendraken (see Post 40).
Austrian grenadiers attack the granary at Essling by
Felicien baron de Myrbach-Rheinfeld.
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