Hello guys,
It has been a while since last time I updated this post! In the last months I was more in a WW2 mood, and also the summer holydays kept me far from my XVII c project, but now I am back here, and now is the turn of some newbies
French Petard
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https://spanishleadpainting.blogspot.com/2021/09/french-petard-xvii-c-siege-party-for.htmlThis unit is intended for my project "The Siege of Gerona 1684", shown previously in this blog (just tag "Gerona 1684"), although as the pétard is in a separate base, I can use it for games set in 30 Years War or English Civil War or Franco Dutch War...
The soldiers are French, from "La Reine" regiment, present at the historical battle, I like their uniform, so finally I went for them instead of other famous regiments that assaulted the walls of Gerona after a heavy bombardment.
These guys are ready to join my previously painted armoured enfants perdús and grenadiers to storm the breach!
The miniatures are a mixture of Wargames Foundry and Dixon's Grand Alliance, both ranges are quite old, but still very nice with a lot of personality, I love both of them although they are more in the small size compared to more recent North Star 1672 or Front Rank.
There are also minor conversions; the officer with partizan is Foundry Marlburian officer, I cut and trimmed his tricorn, and put him a broad brimmed had and plume instead, also a shoulder ribbon from Front Rank and a partizan by Bicorne miniatures.
The other conversion is a Dixon's grenadier throwing his grenade, he had originally a tricorn too, but it was cut and substituted by a informal tricorn or slouch hat.
Finally the paints are a mix of Foundry triads and Vallejo, I like to mix different shades of light grey to my units in order to break the monotony, this time I used Vallejo neutral grey for some and Citadel Rakarth Flesh+Ivory for the rest.
I specially like the the tones of some Foundry triads like Buff Leather and Dark African Flesh, I use them a lot for creamy tones and dark browns.
TERCIO OF DRAGOONS VALANZART
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https://spanishleadpainting.blogspot.com/2021/09/tercio-of-dragoons-vanderpitvalensart.htmlNow there is the turn of a unit I painted a while ago, but never featured here, Tercio of Valanzart I did not showed before because I misinterpreted the colors of the uniform, which should be all green, and I painted in green with blue facings because I thought that this unit later became "Dragones de Batavia", during War of Spanish Succession, and that is true... BUT during late XVII the uniform was different from the WSS so now I am thinking about repainting in green the blue parts.
The miniatures are Front Rank 28mm French dragoons from WSS but the Spaniards used in some Tercios the same cap for their Dragoons in Flanders, so I used those miniatures as I am a big fan of Front Rank miniatures. I like to base my dragoons in individual bases and sabot bases because they usually fought in a skirmish mode until the very end of the century.
On January 12, 1676, a Tercio of dragoons were raised in the Netherlands by patent awarded to Niklaus Hartmann to participate in the war in Holland. The command passed the following year to Vandewin Vanderpit and in 1684 to Theodore de Valanzart, with whom the unit participated in the League of Augsburg War.
The flag was taken from the book "Spanish Armies of the League of Augsburg War".
Cheers!!