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Title: Simon's eventually gargantuan 1670's thread + Royal Dragoons 25/1/22
Post by: bigredbat on December 10, 2021, 02:06:16 PM: Here the first of (hopefully) very many battalions for the War of the Devolution and the Franco-Dutch War. Ironically it starts with a unit that falls slightly outside the period- the 1st Foot Guards ca. 1683.

(https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgMoQNj2FI4YffNnJVv-Yt-xPkvmK98nuw70abqiok_uxQ2-HwTpJq-o9O8yV_N7eBETFDJ7nbDBOqOdmh7LZqWFV35_O7IgkQ5sGUJXyS_4UNYGKg0yvXKyMzMejMttHkoKZWxS5zR8-HB9rFlR2p3He37RgFXAU5KsFfW7TnYd28Hm22JS8QUtUrKIQ=w573-h633)

(https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjTrtBMYVbaiJjZifoKFGdTxA_if978C_3m0VHUUTiKqc9QP3ANcMLgEGXrmBorulEhIaiAWH09w2DdgNQFlAOV3G45Jv1SLFIiKQAEZva7fU4DtvJtsFyA2LYexYFhGtwB4bflDbNJt30yuiThc1vUZgjjKNE--B0foPU4OB4AdRdzFvlq2gK_gn34KA=s2330)

There's a lot more about them on my blog at https://bigredbat.blogspot.com/2021/12/1st-foot-guards-finished.html
Title: Re: Simon's eventually gargantuan 1670's thread
Post by: Hu Rhu on December 10, 2021, 03:40:03 PM: Very nicely done. :-* :-*
You mention one unit a week for the next few months? That's is real dedication and hard work. :o
Title: Re: Simon's eventually gargantuan 1670's thread
Post by: Captain Blood on December 10, 2021, 03:58:08 PM: Super job on those Simon. The flags have a wonderful velvety look :-*
Title: Re: Simon's eventually gargantuan 1670's thread
Post by: bigredbat on December 10, 2021, 05:12:54 PM: Thanks chaps.

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You mention one unit a week for the next few months?

Only because I have quite a few units that are mostly finished, bar basing. And because various chums are doing the heavy lifting with the painting, and another all the flocking. :-) The bottleneck will be the time it takes me to finish the painting, add flags, get them on the bases and grout them, so eventually it'll slow down to a unit every couple of weeks.
Title: Re: Simon's eventually gargantuan 1670's thread
Post by: Paul Richardson on December 10, 2021, 05:48:19 PM: Very nice indeed.
Title: Re: Simon's eventually gargantuan 1670's thread
Post by: chema1986 on December 10, 2021, 05:54:09 PM: Nice regiment Simon, keep them coming !!
Title: Re: Simon's eventually gargantuan 1670's thread
Post by: has.been on December 10, 2021, 07:31:37 PM: Quote
The flags have a wonderful velvety look :-*

Definitely agree with that comment. :o
Title: Re: Simon's eventually gargantuan 1670's thread
Post by: nicknorthstar on December 10, 2021, 08:43:11 PM: Oh wow!
Title: Re: Simon's eventually gargantuan 1670's thread
Post by: OSHIROmodels on December 10, 2021, 09:23:02 PM: Lovely :)
Title: Re: Simon's eventually gargantuan 1670's thread
Post by: Blackwolf on December 10, 2021, 09:31:25 PM: Lovely :-* The basing is particularly good!
Title: Re: Simon's eventually gargantuan 1670's thread
Post by: bigredbat on December 10, 2021, 11:04:23 PM: Quote
Lovely :-* The basing is particularly good!

Thanks- I use a base coat of static grass with a blend of eight or ten different types of tufts, on top, lightly dry-brushed buff and matt-varnished. 25+ tufts a base. It sounds complex but I can finish two units in an evening, and it really sets them off, I think, although my local chum Ian thinks it is over the top. He likes a simpler style, nary a tuft in sight.
Title: Re: Simon's eventually gargantuan 1670's thread
Post by: Blackwolf on December 11, 2021, 01:09:10 AM: Your basing is fab! So many people do them a bit arid for my liking,yours is spot on :)
Title: Re: Simon's eventually gargantuan 1670's thread
Post by: FifteensAway on December 11, 2021, 02:12:18 AM: Love the basing - and the painting, of course.

How did you get the serrated edges to the bases? Or do they come that way? The irregularity should look good on the gaming table.
Title: Re: Simon's eventually gargantuan 1670's thread
Post by: bigredbat on December 11, 2021, 11:34:48 AM: They are from my famous(ish) range of wobbly-edged bases, wot I invented (shades of Slartibartfast) and now sell. They have been compared to

(https://www.hillbiscuits.com/47-120-biscuit-image/hill-nice-300g.jpg)

...but don't taste as good.
Title: Re: Simon's eventually gargantuan 1670's thread
Post by: nicknorthstar on December 11, 2021, 12:25:36 PM: Quote from: bigredbat on December 11, 2021, 11:34:48 AM
(shades of Slartibartfast)

Indeed
Title: Re: Simon's eventually gargantuan 1670's thread
Post by: 2010sunburst on December 11, 2021, 01:38:09 PM: Well, they do give a nice baroque feel to the base…..
Title: Re: Simon's eventually gargantuan 1670's thread
Post by: bigredbat on December 11, 2021, 01:42:53 PM: :-) Appropriate!
Title: Re: Simon's eventually gargantuan 1670's thread
Post by: Baron von Wreckedoften on December 12, 2021, 10:07:04 AM: Quote from: 2010sunburst on December 11, 2021, 01:38:09 PM
Well, they do give a nice baroque feel to the base…..

And if it ain't baroque - don't fix it!
Title: Re: Simon's eventually gargantuan 1670's thread
Post by: armchairgeneral on December 12, 2021, 11:09:38 AM: Beautiful looking unit :-*
Title: Re: Simon's eventually gargantuan 1670's thread
Post by: has.been on December 12, 2021, 01:09:09 PM: Quote
And if it ain't baroque - don't fix it!

lol lol lol
Title: Re: Simon's eventually gargantuan 1670's thread
Post by: Roo on December 12, 2021, 01:39:49 PM: Stunning soldiers and some good humour to boot
Title: Re: Simon's eventually gargantuan 1670's thread
Post by: bigredbat on December 16, 2021, 09:52:26 AM: (https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjcUq0uqZwAeeRhTSdpj_YV2wOlGPGjTs7gnsWjN4mJtkphVEFYwoTKvGGbQjbgSTQ6lbDwS0lquiu3vcD8W1-6hZ8rfoA-Q24_V8L2vH9lapyaT0MjtuyMZPnb9I1eOCo2uT4ifvkdtdWUXQ8doBrYCjwdRn9hlMH0mXC6-hfgiXw9m5EJ1S41nq3RYQ=s1222)

Here's my second finished unit- the Tangier Regiment, AKA Kirke's Lambs. Another British unit- they are in some ways easier as the flags are easily available. 1670's Dutch flags, in particular, are very hard to source- I'm hoping (probably in vain) that someone will do a range.

(https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiYyhqN6OLgk_-EWVbdpUQA8TnSdWPC_tuX6I5v7pvhSPf8q7n3IqQDe1PR-Hk-G9DBDbZrBLhv0wO7D3XTw2ov890FQC9FdwJPzTssQGl_qRodRG-ienoCURrx5nUKqEWx8YvVt6YxfIm6brXTXrfF82Q0amppYHmbBd_EWzUYv_nlwLs6NQArnlkyMw=s2155)

There's more about them on the blog: https://bigredbat.blogspot.com/2021/12/the-tangier-regiment-twice.html
Title: Re: Simon's eventually gargantuan 1670's thread + Tangier Regiment
Post by: Hu Rhu on December 16, 2021, 03:34:50 PM: Magnificent painting on a very fine regiment. I have this battalion currently on the painting table with 70% completed but using Front Rank figures.
Title: Re: Simon's eventually gargantuan 1670's thread + Tangier Regiment
Post by: bigredbat on December 16, 2021, 05:07:56 PM: Wot like this one, Hu Rhu? ;-)

(https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Y7glXWJGhf0/XTrQhTAS42I/AAAAAAAA6jw/W_rLcvNDGuImZP5lIQ0uMLQFXWVBuwJ4QCLcBGAs/s1600/20190720_162651.jpg)

One I finished earlier.
Title: Re: Simon's eventually gargantuan 1670's thread + Tangier Regiment
Post by: nicknorthstar on December 16, 2021, 09:37:36 PM: Fantastic work.

Dutch flags are a problem, the painter Dave Woodward hand painted a number of our ones for 1672, they look right so I don't inquire deeper.

I've attached the flags we used for the Dutch Guard, I think it's accurate for Williams Blue Guard.

Flags of War made me a 1670s Coldstream guard pair of flags, and Charles II's English regiment flags. I'm sure if you drop him a line he'll find them for you.

I've also attached what we think was the Bishop of Munster's regt flag, if that's of interest when you get to the Germans.
Title: Re: Simon's eventually gargantuan 1670's thread + Tangier Regiment
Post by: bigredbat on December 17, 2021, 08:55:58 AM: Thanks Nick!

The Dutch Guard flag you include is brilliant- iirc that's one of the ones captured at Seneffe in 1674, which are the ones I covet most of all, and I will most certainly do that. I'll mail Iain and ask him about the Charles II flags.

The trouble with the Franco Dutch War is that it's relatively niche. But it might become quite a bit more popular with the arrival of the excellent new Helion books. The Mugnai one on the Dutch includes a selection of flags that no-one does yet (eg Aylva, that's a lovely flag) and some proposed new reconstructions of other flags (eg Kirckpatrick, Vribergen). Maybe if there is enough interest we could persuade Iain to add a new Franco-Dutch War section to his shop and add a few new flags to work alongside the already useable Dutch ones he already has from the WSS? Judging from the other threads here, there seems to be a renewed interest in the war.
Title: Re: Simon's eventually gargantuan 1670's thread + Tangier Regiment
Post by: nicknorthstar on December 17, 2021, 09:34:25 AM: It would be great if Iain did some Dutch flags.
Title: Re: Simon's eventually gargantuan 1670's thread + Tangier Regiment
Post by: bigredbat on December 17, 2021, 10:32:09 AM: I'll drop him a line- perhaps if I can guarantee enough interest (I can collect some names), then that'll give him the confidence to do the work.
Title: Re: Simon's eventually gargantuan 1670's thread + Tangier Regiment
Post by: Hu Rhu on December 17, 2021, 02:02:58 PM: Quote from: bigredbat on December 16, 2021, 05:07:56 PM
Wot like this one, Hu Rhu? ;-)

(https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Y7glXWJGhf0/XTrQhTAS42I/AAAAAAAA6jw/W_rLcvNDGuImZP5lIQ0uMLQFXWVBuwJ4QCLcBGAs/s1600/20190720_162651.jpg)

One I finished earlier.

Those are the ones :D :D :D

Nice load of Kirke's Lambs. (My old regiment by the way)
Title: Re: Simon's eventually gargantuan 1670's thread + Tangier Regiment
Post by: bigredbat on December 17, 2021, 02:13:44 PM: Quote
(My old regiment by the way)

Excellent! :-) The Front Ranks are very characterful, all those varied poses... eventually I hope to use them for the LoA.
Title: Re: Simon's eventually gargantuan 1670's thread + Tangier Regiment
Post by: Captain Blood on December 22, 2021, 03:38:53 PM: More lovely paintwork there. This look of this period really is quite ravishing. I have quite a few of them myself :)
Title: Re: Simon's eventually gargantuan 1670's thread + Tangier Regiment
Post by: bigredbat on December 22, 2021, 04:32:13 PM: I adore the cut of the coats- Louis may have been responsible for half of Europe being ravaged, but he certainly knew his tailoring!
Title: Re: Simon's eventually gargantuan 1670's thread + Tangier Regiment
Post by: WillPhillips on January 07, 2022, 08:54:50 AM: Good looking project! Looking forward to how it develops!
Title: Re: Simon's eventually gargantuan 1670's thread + Tangier Regiment
Post by: bigredbat on January 13, 2022, 02:27:32 PM: (https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj8WK2lWhpM0zEIztee6ke7UxmStoXhzyntmUpQBj_9lm3B5aIJOv9hmM8LquCJqP5cqYvB1-yiQsK8wLSjvIeC1wE8yXVMKWeP5e8iVUgiaXmtQp_jgjFX3wv7vBY3vYUaSfa9Fj0cmrxwwJoYvbHFDsk1fi2RI_QqOVcgA4yh7XFLMOOTA4TsAyT--g=w566-h742)

Here's my third regiment- Douglas AKA Hepburn's AKA Dumbarton's AKA the Royal Scots. I'm really pleased with how these came out. They were painted for me by Richard O'Connor. More about them on t'blog https://bigredbat.blogspot.com/2022/01/pontus-pilates-bodyguard.html (https://bigredbat.blogspot.com/2022/01/pontus-pilates-bodyguard.html)

(https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiDXqoRT-vKy1sza9oXPwHrXDpMBAmNcXBqSdwDj-rKW5nRuqeAOfWOlejyhJJX-1ZNlxERwdXyc2J8qoo6_sPRZX2z0EE-BzsAmd49rFR-JwAc-cUrLXP0wa6rR8WbJvh36T2wijJ1L0FSff1D6cTbqCNHl9AI0vbyP-t85DZLmd22FiQA3lXRngeWzw=s3747)
Title: Re: Simon's eventually gargantuan 1670's thread + Pontus Pilate's Bodyguard 13/1/22
Post by: Hu Rhu on January 14, 2022, 07:31:35 AM: Fantastic painting and wonderful flags. :-* :-* :-* :-*
Title: Re: Simon's eventually gargantuan 1670's thread + Royal Dragoons
Post by: bigredbat on January 25, 2022, 01:15:09 PM: (https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgUgUqn3l6EnEBWNJM1K1PiWSvraRcWjCzk80brNYIBdYzuKPSDNYUNo_VFIvjSUeD-O5XxUGorCfLpbtFNPoWO3jY_YwISkImR5wbzLLqe_8z8kR_TgeezgQBBLaklIPf1G6bKqL_ViWGlEKHmXyZsP-TKYXnbGxXqUQYp5nzH0BhdOv5lKM9wpfvL1g=s1844)

Here's another unit for my project, and the first mounted one. These are the Royal Dragoons c. 1685, but I might use them in the 1670s. More on t'blog https://bigredbat.blogspot.com/2022/01/royal-dragoons.html (ftp://bigredbat.blogspot.com/2022/01/royal-dragoons.html)

(https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEheAE7idcqB2FJIz45diu6JGe6srbAB8tYGZ9E5FlhDz4eaV14TiaL6dajm4KFJ4Idub6FTppY2o7sRLlmTfAVwR7KiJ7_DaOLOuy9VGHENJ2Cv4D8pDFZQBEslUfHAYKqMvGsLfc-CzMOAOpY0cxNEqR4BHpH_65Z-jIxIu1j5IugAcqNA6xUVt0u_9w=s3968)
Title: Re: Simon's eventually gargantuan 1670's thread + Royal Dragoons 25/1/22
Post by: Captain Blood on January 25, 2022, 02:47:49 PM: Handsome :-*
Title: Re: Simon's eventually gargantuan 1670's thread + Royal Dragoons 25/1/22
Post by: Hu Rhu on January 25, 2022, 05:12:01 PM: Very nice indeed. :-* :-*
Title: Re: Simon's eventually gargantuan 1670's thread + Royal Dragoons 25/1/22
Post by: Axebreaker on January 26, 2022, 05:55:23 PM: Beautiful looking regiments Simon! :-*

Christopher
Title: Re: Simon's eventually gargantuan 1670's thread + Royal Dragoons 25/1/22
Post by: bigredbat on January 26, 2022, 06:23:29 PM: Thanks chaps. Hope to have some more soon, but am having trouble getting the right flags for the finished regiments.
Title: Re: Simon's eventually gargantuan 1670's thread + Royal Dragoons 25/1/22
Post by: Friends of General Haig on January 26, 2022, 11:03:52 PM: A superb looking unit - love those Dragoon guidons 👍
Title: Re: Simon's eventually gargantuan 1670's thread + Royal Dragoons 25/1/22
Post by: levied troop on January 27, 2022, 07:52:24 AM: Beautiful looking units and that basing is lush.