I took a sidestep from converting an FML
Rosenberg to having a shot at an Austrian
general to accompany the Feldmarschall-
Leutnant on a command base. I used the staff
officer figure from Pendraken’s Austrian
High Command pack (NPA26).
First of all, I ground down the staff
officer’s sash with a rotary tool. I
then chopped off his right hand
and the map or written orders
he was holding. After this
butchery, I needed to model
some fingers on his right
hand, the front of his collar,
the right tail of his coat, and
some of his sash. He had to
have his double-breasted coat
front changed to the single-
breasted one of a general’s jacket.
I chose to remodel his hat, making
it larger and attempting the lace and
bow of Austrian officers’ bicornes. I also
gave him a more pointy nose!
His bicorne hat was quite big but it was built over the
existing hat so was always going to be on the large side.
Most illustrations showed Austrian officers wearing
bicornes in the style of Rosenberg‘s in the last post. I had
attempted to copy Christopher Rothero’s illustrations in
David Hollins’ Austrian Commanders of the Napoleonic
Wars that favoured perhaps more old-fashioned styles. It
must be noted that Rosenberg is rated in most rule-sets
as a ‘terrible’ and uninspiring leader. I liked that I had a
general to accompany him that looked somewhat
foppish and old fashioned.
Austrian General Conversion
I ended up with what I thought was a respectable Austrian
general. The figure was, in fact, my first ever Pendraken 1809
general. Other than Archduke Charles and his staff officer, there
were to date no generals – French or Austrian – in the
Pendraken 1809 range.
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