Simon's eventually gargantuan 1670's thread + Royal Dragoons 25/1/22

[2010sunburst]

Well, they do give a nice baroque feel to the base…..

[bigredbat]

:-)   Appropriate!

[Baron von Wreckedoften]

Well, they do give a nice baroque feel to the base…..

And if it ain't baroque - don't fix it!

[armchairgeneral]

Beautiful looking unit 

[has.been]

And if it ain't baroque - don't fix it!

 

[Roo]

Stunning soldiers and some good humour to boot

[bigredbat]

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.



There's more about them on the blog: https://bigredbat.blogspot.com/2021/12/the-tangier-regiment-twice.html

[Hu Rhu]

Magnificent painting on a very fine regiment.  I have this battalion currently on the painting table with 70% completed but using Front Rank figures.

[bigredbat]

Wot like this one, Hu Rhu?  ;-)



One I finished earlier.

[nicknorthstar]

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.

[bigredbat]

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.

[nicknorthstar]

It would be great if Iain did some Dutch flags.

[bigredbat]

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.

[Hu Rhu]

Wot like this one, Hu Rhu?  ;-)



One I finished earlier.

Those are the ones

Nice load of Kirke's Lambs.  (My old regiment by the way)

[bigredbat]

(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.