So in typical despotic fashion, I combed the odds and sods for recruits and found enough for 4 bases of Spanish cavalry, 1 base of Spanish grenadiers, 2 command stands, 2 Piedmontese artillery pieces and.....1 unit of Imperial (Reichsarmee) combined grenadiers. Yes, I threw that last one in because I had enough chaps in mitres and bearskins to make half a base each. The Reichsarmee infantry tended to either follow the Prussian style or the Austrian style - so half a base of bluecoats in mitres and half a base of whitecoats in bearskins. These were mostly already painted so just a bit of touching up needed.
The Piedmontese artillery came from scouring an odds box where I found an unpainted Baccus Napoleonic field gun and a Baccus howitzer, plus assorted Irregular miniatures jägers, one gunner, plus chaps in Prussian fusilier mitres (good for bombardiers). Normally I wouldn't mix Baccus figures with H&R/Irregular, but the artillery pieces look OK.
Spanish cavalry are painted up as 2 bases of dragoons in yellow coats, and 2 bases of blue-coated horse of indeterminate regiments. The guidons were added by cutting up a paper clip and fixing square or swallow-tail shaped pieces of paper. The colours used on the guidons are completely made up in traditional Spanish colours of red and yellow.
Well, you are making very quick work of raising more armies.
ReplyDeleteThe models were nearly all prepped so just needed a touch of paint/repaint and glueing in place. So it was pretty easy.
DeleteChris
Great work there Chris and one of the joys of the smaller scales is that you can get away with quite a bit of stuff not being quite right, as it looks fine once on the table. I know this from my recent 18thC India forces which stretch from 16thC Ottomans through to late 19thC Afghans!
ReplyDeleteThanks Steve. There are quite a few ‘crimes’ in there. But you’re right. At games distance they won’t get noticed.
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Amazing how much useful stuff can be found in the odds and sods box. Very nice.
ReplyDeleteAt this scale the figures are much more flexible. At least at gaming distance. A lot of the ‘grenadiers’ in bearskins and mitres are actually pioneers which you get 1 or 2 of in every pack of 50+ infantry.
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Lovely work on those figures. You certainly don't waste any time.
ReplyDeleteThanks Richard. I really don’t spend a lot of time relatively speaking in them. The biggest task was prising 40 mounted figures off bases (2 hours). Probably a maximum 4 hours for the rest of the work. Though the horses and over half the riders were nearly painted already. And all prepped before.
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A nice start, Chris!
ReplyDeleteCheers Keith.
DeleteChris
Excellent work, moving forward so well with this.
ReplyDeleteAlan Tradgardland
I dithered over the initial decision of what to do, but then I do tend to crack on.
DeleteChris
Nicely done 👍
ReplyDeleteThanks Matt. They’re all pretty roughly done but what makes the difference is the basing and the hat ‘lace’.
DeleteChris
Terrific looking figures!!!
ReplyDeleteThanks Ray. You’re too kind. They’re impressionistic/effective.
DeleteChris
Very efficient army raising, the artillery looks excellent considering it's origins, waste not want not!
ReplyDeleteBest Iain
Indeed! Got to do my bit!
DeleteChris
These look excellent!
ReplyDeleteRegards, James
Thanks James
DeleteOh, it's so nice to see you starting Spanish and Piedmont armies. I love the red and blue cocades of these armies. I'm so much excited to see you refighting the battles of the WAS.
ReplyDeleteI don’t do cockades at this scale (1/300th. Hat lace is about my limit. 😊
DeleteI’ll be taking part in an on-line game in the near future (Madonna dell Olmo) run by Jonathon Freitag. We did Bassignana several months ago.
Chris