New Army for the WSS

[sunjester]

You can stop picking me, as well. 

Cheers - Phil

Well, everyone needs a hobby!

This time two Dutch battalions, one from Bruhese Regiment and one from Friesheim Regiment. Dutch regiments in Spain consisted of two battalions, but it would be a bit dull to field two identical units, so I've done one from each. http://grahamsgaming.blogspot.co.uk/2018/02/a-confederate-army-for-war-of-spanish_17.html

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

Nice Graham

[paulr]

 

But where are the wavy flags

[Techno]

Looking damn fine !!

Cheers - Phil

[sunjester]

Now for the start of the mounted contingent, a unit of dragoons (from the excellent League of Augsberg range) and two cavalry units. http://grahamsgaming.blogspot.co.uk/2018/02/a-confederate-army-for-war-of-spanish_21.html
Looking at the dragoons makes me think I really should get some more of these to replace my current French dragoons with these little beauties.

[Hwiccee]

Nicely done but unfortunately Spanish dragoons didn't look like that. See https://www.pinterest.es/pin/522628731744133570/ and http://users.telenet.be/Gercon/cossacks/images/Spanish_18c_dragoon.jpg

I asked here about this (http://www.pendrakenforum.co.uk/index.php/topic,10619.0.html).

I used the SYB25 SYW British Horse Grenadier figures and modified the hat. This figure has the tall grenadier hat so I used a file to round the top. Then I cut the back off to make the front taller and rounded that off. It was pretty easy to and worked well.

I guess then use you existing figures to replace the French dragoons you mention.

[Leman]

That project is developing very nicely Sunjester.

[Womble67]

Very nice indeed

Take care

Andy

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

Nice one Graham

[sunjester]

Thank you chaps. 

Hwiccee, thanks for the info. Bugger!    The uniform I'd found from the 1690s had them still wearing floppy hats. I knew that hadn't gone for tricorns, so assumed that they had taken the French style of caps. Oh well, it looks like these must be French dragoons after all! 

Looks like I'll be doing some converting, I wonder if the GNW Russian dragoons would work with a little piece of plasti-card stuck on the front?

[jaztez]

I'd just use them as Spanish dragoons. 

[Hwiccee]

Thank you chaps. 

Hwiccee, thanks for the info. Bugger!    The uniform I'd found from the 1690s had them still wearing floppy hats. I knew that hadn't gone for tricorns, so assumed that they had taken the French style of caps. Oh well, it looks like these must be French dragoons after all! 

Looks like I'll be doing some converting, I wonder if the GNW Russian dragoons would work with a little piece of plasti-card stuck on the front?

I think in general I would go with jaztez and just use them in any case. I think it is a unit which we have no uniform info on so maybe.....

Then maybe go with some conversion if you get another unit. I used the British SYW figure because I had some spare from using them for GNW Russian horse grenadiers. They were simple to do but I think the Russian dragoons could work as well.

There is though a French unit, possibly others, the Aubinge/Lesparre/Granville regiment which is in very similar colours - should be easy to 'convert'.

[Glorfindel]

Following on from the discussion about Spanish Dragoons, I noticed a comment
in a book by CS Grant which might be helpful ("The Armies & Uniforms of
Marlborough's Wars, Vol 2").

His take on this is that the high fronted 'grenadier cap' would only have been
worn by the horse grenadiers in each Dragoon Regiment and that the remaining
dragoons would have worn either the tricorne or the French 'bag hat'.   
Apparently, one source quoted by many others (Clonard) attributes the
'grenadier cap' to all dragoons.

I'm not sure whether there are any Spanish brethren on this forum who can
offer a better insight ?   I might try and contact the chap who runs the
excellent Spanish 'Miniaturas Militares' site.

Anyway, perhaps there is at least some scope for including the French style
dragoons in your army.


Phil

[sunjester]

I'll certainly use them as is for now, but I might have a go at converting a unit of Russian dragoons to see how they look. It would be nice to have yet more variation in the Confederate army, or else I could add the converted unit to the small Spanish contingent in my French army.

[sunjester]

Every army needs a commander, so here is my Confederate general, together with some of his staff and bodyguard. More details and pictures on the blog http://grahamsgaming.blogspot.co.uk/2018/02/a-confederate-army-for-war-of-spanish_23.html




I've also added flags to my Dutch regiments, many thanks to Glorfindel for helping with the flag details.

[Techno]

Damn good stuff !!

Cheers - Phil

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

Top work

[Womble67]

Very nice indeed

Take care

Andy

[paulr]

 

Suitably wavy flags

[sunjester]

I have finally managed to get back to this project, after a prolonged gap. With the next big WSS game scheduled for mid-May I need to get the Confederate army finished (by "finished" I mean the word very loosely, more in the sense of enough done for this game).

More pictures on the blog http://grahamsgaming.blogspot.co.uk/2018/04/a-confederate-army-for-war-of-spanish.html