Fred's 2016 Painting Diary

[paulr]

 

[Leman]

Very nice indeed,

[petercooman]

Very nice!

[Subedai]

Nice looking chaps and the bases definitely show them off.

MickS

[fred.]

Thanks chaps.

The basing has really helped the photos.

[FierceKitty]

Mmmmmmmmm....

[fred.]

Williamite Huguenot Regiment



Moderately generic French regiment in grey coats, with blue cuffs, armed with matchlocks. They will probably get flags to represent De La Meloniere.

[clibinarium]

Very nice. The white undercoat seems to work well.

You might want to hold over the pikes for another unit though. Huguenot regiments at the Boyne appear not to have had any and suffered from the attentions of Irish cavalry. Why they had none has never really been explained to me as French, Dutch and English infantry all used them. Danes I think had discarded them (though appear to have readopted them in the GNW after being worsted by the Swedes).

[fred.]

Thanks clib - the white under coat does help lift the colours, it worked very well on the dutch blue guard, less sure on the grey coated troops.

As to the pikes - great point. I had read this a while ago, but then clearly forgotten about it! From what I read it seems that it was only at the Boyne that the Hugenonets didn't have pikes, there are suggestions that this might have been due to the need to cross the river (but other units took their pikes with them), they seem to have had them at other times in the campaign. I think I had the idea of making a central stands with command and pikes, and being able to swap the pikes out for more shotte if needed. But as I have only painted pikes it looks like this was more of an idea than something that was executed.

At this time the Danish do seem to have only been using musket armed troops with no pikes. Interesting to hear that later they added the pikes back in.

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

Very nice.
Good point Clib

[fred.]

Grey/Blue Regiment



Lots of detailing and finishing off on these chaps tonight. Pretty much done other than hat lace, and maybe a brighter silver on the officers' weapons.

Still haven't really decided what I'm doing with the pike / Huguenot conundrum.

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

Historical accuracy or rule of cool?

[fred.]

Or they might get a transfer to the Jacobite cause.

[toxicpixie]

Will it be more hassle explaining why they haven't got pikes to people who assume they should have them, or explaining that you KNOW they didn't have them but you'd already painted the figures and people expect to see them

[Leman]

The latter is what I would go with.

[fred.]

So give them pikes, seems to be the consensus?

[petercooman]

Yes, pikes all the way!

[Leman]

Stupid Boy! Don't tell'em Pike.

[fred.]

I'm not adding a red scarf 

[toxicpixie]

Until/unless/you can be bothered to acquire and then paint the musketeers to replace them, I'd go pike. They can always form the nucleus for another unit later