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Author Topic: Chema1986 XVIIc.Gallery:13/09/23 Ark Royal miniatures 1/1200 Spanish ships  (Read 39213 times)

Offline Lord Raglan

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Re: Chema1986 XVIIc. Gallery: 18/01/2021 CAMPAIGN PROJECT GERONA 1684
« Reply #150 on: January 18, 2021, 08:28:38 PM »
Delightful as usual mate

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Re: Chema1986 XVIIc. Gallery: 18/01/2021 CAMPAIGN PROJECT GERONA 1684
« Reply #151 on: January 19, 2021, 04:58:46 AM »
Great work, superb thread all round. Love the background history on your new project. :)

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Re: Chema1986 XVIIc. Gallery: 18/01/2021 CAMPAIGN PROJECT GERONA 1684
« Reply #152 on: January 19, 2021, 09:00:47 AM »
Lovely, many thanks for the potted history and beautiful troops and scenery.
Most excellent  8)

Many thanks guys for your kind words!

Marvellous. Particularly liked your pictures of the town matching the illustration.
Excellent modelling too, not just painting.

thanks! yeah, it is a beautiful town, and the old (early XX) illustration is nice too !

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Re: Chema1986 XVIIc. Gallery: 18/01/2021 CAMPAIGN PROJECT GERONA 1684
« Reply #153 on: January 19, 2021, 09:02:36 AM »
This is a great collection, carefully chosen, beautifully modelled and painted. A project made with love 8)

Many thanks Sir! yes, although it advances slowly...

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Re: Chema1986 XVIIc. Gallery: 18/01/2021 CAMPAIGN PROJECT GERONA 1684
« Reply #154 on: January 19, 2021, 09:03:56 AM »
Delightful as usual mate

Thanks Lord Raglan! I am glad we have a similar paralell project  ;)
Great work, superb thread all round. Love the background history on your new project. :)

Thanks mate, stay tuned for more soon :)

Offline chema1986

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Re: Chema1986 XVIIc. Gallery:26/02/2021 French Enfants Perdús & Grenadiers
« Reply #155 on: February 26, 2021, 12:07:36 PM »
Hello friends, I have updated my blog with this new entry:

https://spanishleadpainting.blogspot.com/2021/02/french-enfants-perdus-late-xvii-c.html



I have finally finished another unit for my Gerona 1684 project. French "assault troops" and grenadiers, as described by witnesses to the battle:

The French assault was at follows; hundreds of "Enfants Perdús" or Forlorn hopes were formed, armed in the following manner " the first line or row with helmets, cuirasses, buckler/round shields and swords. The second and third lines there were troops with war axes and grenadiers". and after those assault troops,  5000 men.






This assault took place during the summer of 1684, I guess this kind of troops were also used in other sieges in late XVII c. but I was surprised to know that as late as in 1684, there were still in use in the French army such an old fashioned armed soldiers, with the helmet, back and breast plate, buckler and sword. But I fell in love with the description of them and had to paint a unit for myself!


The leader of the unit is Captain Jacques Sauvage, a grenadier veteran of the War of Devolution, and Franco Dutch War ... He was successful in the siege of Lille in 1667, the siege of Maastricht 1673 and the siege of Valenciennes in 1677. He has spent the last two decades fighting the Dutch, Spaniards and Imperials,  and now, in the summer of 1684 his unit was ready and in front of the gates of Gerona, an easy task, or so he had been told...








Well, monsieur Sauvage is a fictional character of my campaign, but  all the rest is historical, I have painted the unit in the uniform of regiment de "La Reine", a regiment present at the siege of Gerona. I thought about using several uniforms in the same in unit, something common in this kind of ad hoc units for sieges, but the miniatures have the French classical helmet, and that helmet was issued only to native French and Swiss, not to German regiments in French service, and there were German soldiers from regiments Furstemberg or La Marck in the general assault against the walls, so I could not paint soldiers from these regiments with the miniatures I had, so finally only regiment "La Reine"

The miniature of the leader, as I said in the previous post of the blog, is by Tercio Creativo, and although it is inspired by a 17th century French soldier, it is NOT historical, since it wears a tabard with the fleur de lis, as if it were a king's musketeer, and a classic helmet typical of france from 1660, but is very nice and well sculpted so I could not resist using him for my enfants perdús.

Following the contemporary description of the French assault on the main breach of the Gerona wall, I wanted to represent an assault unit armed with breastplate and back, helmet, buckler and sword, and behind them soldiers armed with axes or halbers and finally grenadiers in the third row.










Most of them are conversions of miniatures from Northstar 1672 French range and one from Dixons, with plastic weapons from Warhammer (axes/halberds) and Warlord games (swords and pistol) the bucklers, since I didn't have 17th century bucklers on hand, I had to resort to some Sassanid shields from Aventine, and then another one made of green stuff made a from a 30 years war miniature.














Finally, I like to base this kind of unit in individual round bases, in order to use them in skirmish games too.




I hope you like them!

« Last Edit: February 26, 2021, 12:27:47 PM by chema1986 »

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Re: Chema1986 XVIIc. Gallery: 26/02/2021 French Enfants Perdús & Grenadiers
« Reply #156 on: February 26, 2021, 12:18:49 PM »
Top job  8)
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Re: Chema1986 XVIIc. Gallery: 26/02/2021 French Enfants Perdús & Grenadiers
« Reply #157 on: February 26, 2021, 07:55:22 PM »
Those really are nice and crisp, well done
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Re: Chema1986 XVIIc. Gallery: 26/02/2021 French Enfants Perdús & Grenadiers
« Reply #158 on: February 26, 2021, 09:14:40 PM »
Some beautiful painting on these latest additions mate

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Re: Chema1986 XVIIc. Gallery: 26/02/2021 French Enfants Perdús & Grenadiers
« Reply #159 on: February 27, 2021, 08:51:55 AM »
Really excellent work

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Re: Chema1986 XVIIc. Gallery: 26/02/2021 French Enfants Perdús & Grenadiers
« Reply #160 on: February 27, 2021, 08:58:45 AM »
Very nice work there.
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Re: Chema1986 XVIIc. Gallery: 26/02/2021 French Enfants Perdús & Grenadiers
« Reply #161 on: February 28, 2021, 08:03:47 AM »
Impressive job! Neat painting and excellent shading! Excellent vignettes! Congrats!
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Offline chema1986

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Top job  8)


Many thanks :)
Those really are nice and crisp, well done

thanks mate!

many thanks, I hope to see your updates soon too!


Many thanks Master!!


Really excellent work

Offline chema1986

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Impressive job! Neat painting and excellent shading! Excellent vignettes! Congrats!

many thanks for your kind words!

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Hi guys, in the last few weeks I updated my blog with some XVII c. stuff:

My French Grenadiers for my Gerona 1684 project

A military camp

French regiment Montroux  1690...

I leave you here the link for the details of  the mentioned posts:

https://spanishleadpainting.blogspot.com/




My good old Dixons miniatures French Grenadier Etranger for 1684 battle of Gerona:






XVII C Military encampment, for several nationalities and periods... TYW, ECW, Franco Dutch, League of Augsburg, Wss...













Finally,  some re touches and flag swaps to an old painted unit, and now I have a new French Regiment for my League of Augsburg War collection :)







As a pleasant surprise, I was lucky enough to find on Ebay, a couple of very nicely painted French units that now are part of my collection. (these 2 units,  Regiment Montcashel and Dauphin Gendarmes, were not painted by me)



Cheers!

 

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