Sunday 29 November 2015
Uniforms and Flags - for Wittenberg
I've started looking at flags and uniforms for both sides. Initially I decided to focus on Wittenberg, being based on Saxony, the excellent little booklet by Jean Belaubre is very useful - shot of front cover below
this has enough info and flags for me to set out a rough list of units. I'm aiming for 6 foot, 6 horse and 1 dragoon regiment, plus the kings lifeguard.
Friday 20 November 2015
Saturday 14 November 2015
17C Coach, Work in progress - 2
Stages in making the coach body. First a simple cardboard shell..
Adding the basic roof...
Detailing, with some strips and pieces of cardboard; plus some round pin-heads. All done ready for painting, shown below with some horses from Irregular Miniatures 42mm marlburian range.
Adding the basic roof...
Detailing, with some strips and pieces of cardboard; plus some round pin-heads. All done ready for painting, shown below with some horses from Irregular Miniatures 42mm marlburian range.
Friday 13 November 2015
17C Coach, Work in progress - 1
Not having an appropriate coach for the period I decided to make one. As a basis for my model I chose the a Dinky 'Slipper and the Rose' coach. These are quite nice and with a paint job would be quite appropriate for an 40mm 18C coach.
I bought a cheap one on Ebay and took it to bits; leaving me with the parts I wanted - the chassis and wheels
Before starting on building the new coach body I made up a driver using a 18C 40mm self-cast Creartec cuirassier as a dolly. A new head from Sash & Sabre and lots of green stuff .....Friday 6 November 2015
Commanders in Chief (main personality figures)
Have completed the main personality figures for each side, now ready to lead their armies
The King of Monrovia - Klemens I (in black with white stripe sleeves)
The King of Wittenberg - Leopold I (in the blue)
I hope to base the armies on historical counterparts if possible (providing I can find suitable reference material - uniform details and flags). At the moment provisionally
The King of Monrovia - Klemens I (in black with white stripe sleeves)
The King of Wittenberg - Leopold I (in the blue)
I hope to base the armies on historical counterparts if possible (providing I can find suitable reference material - uniform details and flags). At the moment provisionally
- Wittenberg - based on Saxony
- Monrovia - based on the Palatinate
Sunday 1 November 2015
Main Personality Figures (command) - WIP
Have started work on the the main personality figures. I bought the Sash&Sabre ECW two command figure pack to use for the Kings, using a different horse for one of them; and tweaked a couple of other figures for the captain generals and standard bearers
While sorting through figures I found I had four officers with swords that could maybe be suitable for 'the musketeers'.
Will need to have four equivalent mounted figures as well though - will have to check what spare riders and horses I have left.
In terms of units I have decided to tweak the sizes slightly
- horse: down to 8 figures, mainly to get more units on the table
- foot: 12 musket (down from 16), pike block of 12 comprising 8 pikemen, 2 ensigns, drummer, officer with partizan and colonel of foot.
While sorting through figures I found I had four officers with swords that could maybe be suitable for 'the musketeers'.
Will need to have four equivalent mounted figures as well though - will have to check what spare riders and horses I have left.
In terms of units I have decided to tweak the sizes slightly
- horse: down to 8 figures, mainly to get more units on the table
- foot: 12 musket (down from 16), pike block of 12 comprising 8 pikemen, 2 ensigns, drummer, officer with partizan and colonel of foot.
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