Marie Theresa, a saint by any other name.

After reading the small article in last months Miniature Wargames about wargaming in Austria I noticed that the show held there gave away a wonderful figure of Marie Theresa.

The figure had been produced by Westphalia Miniatures in Germany and I was really envious of everyone who got the figure.Anyway to cut a long story short Westphalia Miniatures very kindly sent me three! One I have given to master painter Dave Jarvis to see what he can do with it. If its any good? I will probably pinch her off him. The other two I kept. 

 Marie Theresa to me anyway was everything that Fredrick the Great! wasnt. She was kind, generous, honourable brave and also a very good ruler, unfortunately she was also very loyal to her generals, even the bad ones. So I had to do a small diorama of the Empress with two of her generals.

  Im not happy with the way I painted her dress, but I still like it enough to use as my C in C.

 She's probably saying '' Now look lads, you were pretty s@@te at Prague, so can we have some more effort next time.''

 I picked up an unpainted Hinchliffe blacksmiths forge many moons ago from Ian at Irregular Miniatures, and I finally got around to painting it, Hinchliffe still do it for me.