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Wider Wargaming => Genre/Period Discussion => Firelocks to Maxims (1680 - 1900) => Topic started by: ali657 on 05 April 2015, 10:27:32 PM

Title: SYW Saxons.
Post by: ali657 on 05 April 2015, 10:27:32 PM
Evening chaps, any suggestions on which figures would be suitable for painting as Saxons. I was thinking Prussians for Grenadiers but would welcome some views from any SYW buffs. Doing British and Hanovarians at the moment and getting a bit bored with red.
            Cheers Al.
Title: Re: SYW Saxons.
Post by: Leman on 06 April 2015, 07:58:49 AM
Austrian figures for Saxon musketeers.
Title: Re: SYW Saxons.
Post by: ali657 on 06 April 2015, 10:04:26 AM
Many thanks Leman, I feel another order brewing.
       Cheers Al.
Title: Re: SYW Saxons.
Post by: Hertsblue on 06 April 2015, 10:23:19 AM
This may help, Al.

http://www.kronoskaf.com/syw/index.php?title=Saxon_Army (http://www.kronoskaf.com/syw/index.php?title=Saxon_Army)
Title: Re: SYW Saxons.
Post by: ali657 on 07 April 2015, 07:42:01 PM
Thanks Herts, now I need to know if the Austrians have lapels and are the Hungarians wearing trousers?.
                 Cheers Al.
Title: Re: SYW Saxons.
Post by: Leman on 07 April 2015, 10:04:16 PM
Austrians have lapels:

(http://i1101.photobucket.com/albums/g440/dourpuritan/10mm%20SYW/IMG_0385-1_zps4ec7b122.jpg)

Looking for Hungarians - they wear the tight trousers and ankle boots:

(http://i1101.photobucket.com/albums/g440/dourpuritan/10mm%20SYW/IMG_0386_zps7e7ce07e.jpg)

The front line on the left is a Hungarian unit in march pose, with tight blue trousers.
Title: Re: SYW Saxons.
Post by: ali657 on 07 April 2015, 10:26:28 PM
Thanks Leman, very nice. I like the regiment with the lilac facings. Some saxon regiments have lapels before 1761 but most seem to lack lapels. I just wondered if any of the packs were lapel-less.
                       Cheers Al.
Title: Re: SYW Saxons.
Post by: Leman on 07 April 2015, 10:33:53 PM
To be honest the crossbelts are so wide and the figures so small you can get away with just not painting in the very small amount of lapel which is just visible.
Title: Re: SYW Saxons.
Post by: ali657 on 07 April 2015, 10:55:00 PM
Yes I'm probably being  a bit picky. Any more of this and I shall have to join the button counters on TMP ;)
    Cheers Al.
Title: Re: SYW Saxons.
Post by: jambo1 on 08 April 2015, 04:19:08 PM
Those pics are blinking lovely Leman!! m/
Title: Re: SYW Saxons.
Post by: getagrip on 08 April 2015, 04:27:34 PM
Quote from: jambo1 on 08 April 2015, 04:19:08 PM
Those pics are blinking lovely Leman!! m/

Agreed! ;)
Title: Re: SYW Saxons.
Post by: Techno on 09 April 2015, 06:17:25 AM
Thirded !
Cheers - Phil
Title: Re: SYW Saxons.
Post by: Leman on 09 April 2015, 06:37:00 AM
It's weird, because up until the 1990s I had no interest in the tricorn period, then I discovered Duffy's books and never looked back.
Title: Re: SYW Saxons.
Post by: Lord Kermit of Birkenhead on 09 April 2015, 07:27:50 AM
Quote from: Leman on 09 April 2015, 06:37:00 AM
It's weird, because up until the 1990s I had no interest in the tricorn period, then I discovered Duffy's books and never looked back.

We are all fickle

IanS
Title: Re: SYW Saxons.
Post by: Ithoriel on 09 April 2015, 10:54:27 AM
Quote from: ianrs54 on 09 April 2015, 07:27:50 AM
We are all fickle

IanS

Fickle? Moi? I aspire to the level of constancy that would qualify as merely fickle! :)
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