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Miniatures Adventure => Pikes, Muskets and Flouncy Shirts => Topic started by: OB on December 07, 2020, 12:58:27 PM
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I’ve started work on a new project, a French Army for the League of Augsburg period.
Currently I’m awaiting reinforcements to arrive but I had enough lying around to make a start. The figures are mostly from Irregular Miniatures. I did a minor bit of conversion adding shoulder ribbons to the Grenadiers.
If it is of interest you can see the first three units and some very nice flags on my blog.
https://youdonotknowthenorth.blogspot.com
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Great start to your new project and a very interesting read, looking forward to seeing how this develops. :)
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Thanks Jambo. I was hoping the reinforcements would arrive today alas they didn't. I satisfied myself with painting a unit of scythe men that will work for Monmouth or as Jacobite levies.
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A lovely start.
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Cheers Norm. More soon I hope.
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Reinforcements have finally arrived and I'm happily painting away.
While waiting I got distracted and so turned to some related Jacobite/Monmouth/Williamite War stuff. In the course of that I realised my existing armies would need some refurbishment. Some units were painted twenty years ago when hobby time was in short supply and it shows. I guess this happens.
Anyhow, I'm resolved to complete the French first. Here is my second French cavalry unit a squadron of la Reine. I'm doing two squadrons per regiment for the French cavalry. You can see them with some Dutch cavalry and lots of Monmouth’s levies on my blog. I’ve also started work on conversions for the French Guard Battalions.
https://youdonotknowthenorth.blogspot.com
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I'm about to start painting the lace on my first French Guard battalion. The figures have all had ribbons added to shoulders and hats. I want to paint all 16 at the same time to ensure the lines of lace are all the same size. While waiting for green stuff to set I painted an Irish Jacobite Battalion. With a different command stand it would work for Monmouth too.
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You are doing great work with this project.
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A really great looking project. :D
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Thank you both.
I hope my next blog post "The Duke of Berwick's imaginary Regiment of Foot" will prove of interest. It's about why I like Beneath the Lily Banners for League of Augsburg Games. There will be lots of new toys of course.
Then it will be the French Guards and French Army progress to date. I'm not doing badly, regiments Navarre and Dauphin have now got their pike men, the artillery is done and I have two regiments of cavalry each of two squadrons.
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Charging through your project at a fair old rate, and very good it is too. Enjoying this thread. :)
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More French this time. I've realised my Jacobites need a complete refurbishment and so will the Williamites.
I've added pike men to the line regiments and finished the second cavalry squadrons for la Reine and Royal. My first battalion of the French Guard bellow. The pike stands improve the look of things I think. Anyhow, lots to see including the Royal Italien if you click the link.
https://youdonotknowthenorth.blogspot.com
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Photos of another five French battalions are now on my blog. The include three of the French battalions sent to Ireland, the first battalion of the Swiss Guard and the German Greder Battalion.
The figures are a mixture of Dixon, Essex and Irregular 15mm. I find they work well together even on the same base.
If it’s of interest here is the link.
https://youdonotknowthenorth.blogspot.com
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I had to do a bit of thinking about where to get my 15mm French Dragoons from. Mainly because I wanted them in stocking caps. I ended up doing a bit of mixing and matching.
The first regiment is now done, Firmacon's Dragoons. As you can see I like to have them mounted and dismounted. The mounted are Old Glory 7YW conversions. The dismounted are Gladiator from fighting 15s. The flag is from Sir Sidney Roundwoods blog and was made by him. I was delighted to find it.
here is a pic of the finished unit. I'm still thinking about horse holders.
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You have a very nice collection. I really appreciate your flags. I went through some difficulty with mine, having printed what looked like good quality from my inkjet printer but they ran when I finished them with matte medium. I switched to solvent based varnish and they survived. I attached a pic of one of my regiments. They’re Venexia, I can’t believe being lucky enough to find a package on eBay. The others are mostly Khurasan, and Essex.
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Very nice pikeman. I do like the Venexia range although they are too big to fit with my lads. You may know that the whole range will be available once more from Lancashire Games later this year.
Most of my flags are from the Not by Appointment blog with some from Kronoskaf. I use a very thin application of PVA to the inside surface of the flag and then wrap it round the pole and shape it. So far only one has bled through to the colours on the other side.
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Very nice. Had a quick look through your blog and think I'm going to enjoy the back posts. I've been looking a lot at LoA, GNW and 9YW lately with an eye to starting a project in one (or all) of them in the near future!
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Thanks, do have a poke about. I should have more LOA posts up shortly. I think it's a great period to game. It's always great to hear from other people playing it so do let us know when you get started.
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More LOA French cavalry completed and photographed on my blog. If you’d like to see them click the link. The cavalry are squadrons from the Colonel General’s regiment and the Orleans regiment. There are also pics of Fimacon’s Dragoons mounted and on foot.
I’ve also waffled on about what’s available in 15mm for dragoons in stocking caps. It might be of use to others doing the LOA in 15mm.
https://youdonotknowthenorth.blogspot.com
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The French cavalry are lovely, cracking job on them. Interesting read about the dragoons as well, good advice. :)
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Thanks Jambo. I'm going to try Fighting 15s Dragoons on Irregular horses for my next unit.
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My second unit of French dragoons is now complete. After some experimentation I favour Gladiator figures on Irregular Miniatures horses for this troop type. As usual I’ve done the unit mounted and on foot.
The red and yellow uniform seems to have been worn by 3 different French Dragoon units. I think it is quite striking.
I’ve also painted up a single unit of irregular Hussars from Essex. They should be fun on the table top.
If it is of interest here is the link to my blog.
https://youdonotknowthenorth.blogspot.com
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Nice work, the uniform is cracking, really good, hussars are very good too! :)
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Lovely work, nice to see how its progressing
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Thank you both lads. I should have another couple of units done soon.
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Impressive, the sculpts are nice and your painting style has brought out every feature.
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These are really nice figures and a great paint job :)
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Thanks fellows.
The sculpts above are ex Black Hat, now Fighting 15s and sold under the Gladiator label. Unpainted the heads look too big and the arms too short. The same dollies were used for their Sikh War range. The League of Augsburg clothing style masks these flaws and on the plus side the figures have a lot of detail. Once painted I think they come up nicely.
One of the pleasing things about this project is that Essex, Irregular and Gladiator figures work together nicely enough.