Regiment of the Day
Something a little different today - some 7YW figures in 15mm ! This is my first attempt at 7YW or 18th Century in general, so I hope you enjoy them !
This unit represents an average sized line regiment of 4 bases, for use with my imagi-nation campaign.
The uniform is closely modeled on the Prussian Infantrie Regt Nr. 1 - Winterfeld.
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| Uniform in 1759 - Source: Engraving by von Schmalen, Nürnberg 1759 |
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| Red facings with a 3 pairs of white lace, white trim on the tricorne, and a white pom pom denote the unfiroms of IR Nr. 1. |
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| The orange flag is straight from the Prussian design for IR 1. Figures by warrior miniatures, from their excellent '18th Century' line of generic figures. |
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| Pre-production shot of the flag - at a height of 14mm for the flag, you can keep the details fairly minimalist and still have a great looking flag for the table. Again the advantages of hand painting the flags are - exact colour matching on the edges after you are done, and the use of metallic paint ... which is a little hard to do with printed material. |
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| Details are pretty good on these castings - large exaggerated details, very easy to paint ! |
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No fiddly packs to worry about with these, so nice and quick to get on the table.
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They look good... and you will doubtless be pleased to know that my knowledge of the 7YW is very limited; I painted up a small unit each of 25mm Garrison 7YW Prussian Musketeers and Cuirasiers about 20 years ago, and that's as far as it ever went!
ReplyDeletePeter
hehe - thats quite funny (that I would be pleased that your knowledge is limited in this area). Ah well - there are some very good references online for this period.
ReplyDeleteTruly amazing resource here :
http://www.kronoskaf.com/syw/index.php?title=Armies
That whole site is a brilliant use of the internet - much better investment of time on the part of the authors than some other sites out there. If only 1% of the dribble that appears on facebook could have been channelled into building great sites like kronoskaf instead .. the world would be a better place by far.
I have a few more SYW units ready for blogging now - they are turning out to be quicker to paint than Napoleonics, and huge fun when they are finished. I think I will definitely be ordering a lot more of them. The generic 18th Century figures from warrior are really good ... and Eureka also has a brilliant range of SYW figures to fill in the gaps. Should be a fun project with no end.