Wednesday, 26 June 2024

Sun King Odds and Ends

The following five posts show various painting/modelling tasks I have completed this month, several pictures having captions on the images.






Fescennia Odds and Ends

 




Avrupan Future Wars Odds and Ends

 











Petaudia Odds and Ends


The boat will be used in my fantasy/medieval campaign of Petaudia. The rigging is made from darning thread/cotton. I am not entirely sure I have rigged it correctly - there are no instructions for that with the model, so I just followed a picture I found on the internet of a completed model by someone else!


 

ACW Scenery

Tuesday, 11 June 2024

Dutch Order of Battle Summer 1677

The Hessisches Staatsarchiv Marburg has a digital archive which contains a great number of very useful sources for the 17th Century: Digital Archive Marburg - The DigAM Project - Home. I would thoroughly recommend anyone interested in researching that period of military history to make use of the website.

I found a document which is an order of battle for the Dutch army from the summer of 1677. I have edited and translated it and produced a PDF which you can download. Although the army did not engage the French directly in battle that season, laying siege to Charleroi instead - although without success - it does provide a useful list of the Dutch regiments on campaign at that date. I hope anyone interested in the Franco-Dutch War can make some use of it.

Dutch Order of Battle Summer 1677