Monday, 6 December 2021

 And a few other items from the painting table:

Some foot knight commands for my Petaudia mediaeval/fantasy campaign. I use Dragon Rampant rules, but have separate bases for commanders so they can move between units, rather than being permanently attached to one unit. It also allows me to have separate "commands" in a big battle. These are knights from the Celerian Marches in the centre of the continent of Petaudia. Figures are Essex Miniatures with home-made flags
A mediaeval trebuchet 28mm scale plastic model by Wizkids from Wayland Games, One of the largest models I have ever painted! The two crew figures are IGS 28mm plastic figures.

 A few more items from the painting table:

A Dutch Foot Regiment - van Reede van Amerongen - from 1673. One of the more unusual units for having a red coat and blue facings. The flags are homemade, based upon a picture in B. Mugnai's The Army of the United Provinces of the Netherlands, 1660-1687.


French Foot Regiment - Champagne - one of the oldest units in the French army, being one of the "Vieux Corps" units. Uniform is grey coat with red socks, shoulder ribbons, sashes, hat band ribbons. Most of the senior regiments in the 1670s had multiple battalions, so if I add more to my collection in the future, I will add 2nd and 3rd battalions to those I already have.


I have also been rebasing units and finishing them off with "extras" - these are French Dragoons - Asfeld's Regiment. The best source I know for French dragoon units before 1750 is V. and L. Letrun's Officers and Soldiers of French Dragoons, Volume 1 1669-1749. I wish there were more uniform books just like this one!




Some re-based French light horse regiments from the 1670s: above is Dauphin. Almost all royal regiments of cavalry wore blue coats with red facings. There were two squadrons to each regiment, the squadron being the tactical formation on the battlefield.
Cuirassiers du Roi, the only regiment of cavalry in the French army to wear cuirasses at this time.
Royal Cravattes - the word is a corruption of Croats, a type of hussar during the mid-part
of the 17th Century.

Commissaire-Général - only a few regiments had grey coats and black facings, this one, plus Colonel-Général (Turenne's former regiment) and Mestre-de-camp général.