That's a lovely looking unit for sure .

Very impressive indeed. 👏

Quote from: Hwiccee on 16 June 2022, 02:18:29 PMcollegialhoagie:

Yes more GNW material is on the way but probably not until next year. The plan is to have circa 10 GNW battles and around 5 Ottoman battles. Plus probably a few 'what ifs' - Marlborough vs Charles XII and a fictional clash between the Swedes and Danes & Russians after they invade Sweden in 1716 for example.

Before then there will be a new scenario book for the 'Divine Right' rules covering the wars between Sweden, Poland, Russia, the Ottomans, Cossacks and Tatars 1600 to 1670 or so. Another on the 'Western' wars 1648 - 1680 including the Scanian war.

There are also more SYW era scenarios on the way and a French version of this set. Along with a set of rules for the Napoleonic era.

Super exited to hear about the Scanian war, I'm sure mr. Broden has a hand in that possibly? I recently got hold of the rare L-E Höglund edition of Swedish uniforms, flags & standards of the Scanian war, it is 100% going to be my next project after the GNW!

And for the weekend's work, I've finished a swedish wing commander unit. In hindsight I should have used this figure for the army commander Magnus Stenbock, as you can see the figure is very similar to Gustaf Cederströms depiction of Stenbock at Helsingborg (not that it's a historically correct, it's a very romantic late 19th century work).

Since the figure has a lot of "go" to it, I think it will work well as the commander of the swedish left wing, Jacob Burensköld, who agressively led the first line of the left wing to attack the danish right before he had all his squadrons assembled, which led to him getting captured by the danish horse guard.

Oh that is brilliant

      

Quote from: collegialhoagie on 19 June 2022, 08:47:59 AMSuper exited to hear about the Scanian war, I'm sure mr. Broden has a hand in that possibly? I recently got hold of the rare L-E Höglund edition of Swedish uniforms, flags & standards of the Scanian war, it is 100% going to be my next project after the GNW!

Yes Per Broden has produced a very nice game of Lund, 1676. We are running it at a UK show on July 3rd so I guess photos of that will appear online.

If anyone is going to the Joy of Six show in Sheffield then come and say Hi.

Well done on tracking down Hoglund's Scanian War book. I am sure I am not the only one who wishes he had done more books and that these, including the Great Northern War books, were more easily available.

Personally I would love something like the Hoglund books on the armies involved in the German campaigns of the Scanian War. I have made a small start of getting Wrangel's army but also the Danes, Prussians, Hanoverians and allies involved or potentially involved in this campaign.

The 'Burenskold/Stenbock' figure is great, as indeed are all your figures. I hope at some point you can put some shots of the full army online.

Quote from: Hwiccee on 20 June 2022, 09:19:41 AMYes Per Broden has produced a very nice game of Lund, 1676. We are running it at a UK show on July 3rd so I guess photos of that will appear online.

If anyone is going to the Joy of Six show in Sheffield then come and say Hi.

Well done on tracking down Hoglund's Scanian War book. I am sure I am not the only one who wishes he had done more books and that these, including the Great Northern War books, were more easily available.

Personally I would love something like the Hoglund books on the armies involved in the German campaigns of the Scanian War. I have made a small start of getting Wrangel's army but also the Danes, Prussians, Hanoverians and allies involved or potentially involved in this campaign.

The 'Burenskold/Stenbock' figure is great, as indeed are all your figures. I hope at some point you can put some shots of the full army online.

Looking forward to see that, his battle of Narva table is incomprehesible cool. I wish we had similar historical wargaming conventions in Sweden...

yeah I was quite happy to find the swedish edition for a reasonable price, as I was able to get all his swedish books about the great northern war too, which has been indispensible as a reference.

Thanks for the kind words, it has been a blast getting into this small scale, progress has been steady. I'll definitely putting up the full army for a photo shoot eventually!

Sorry in advance for the picture dump. I've finished the danish wing commanders, and tried to put some extra effort trying to get a good light grey/white horse colour, going from dark grey, layering up to almost pure white. I'm quite happy with the final result, and will probably be using this for the trumpeters in the rest of the swedish regular cavalry units.

Wing commanders major general Frantz Joachim von Dewitz and major general Christian Rodsteen.

Beautiful stuff.

Not compulsory but I think brown horses look even better with some white on some of their lower legs and face

Most hoorses have one or 2 "socks" or a blaze

     

No need to apologise for pictures here

A sock or two and a blaze, snip and/or star do lift a brown horse

You may find the below that FierceKitty posted a while ago either helpful or frightening

Quote from: FierceKitty on 26 May 2014, 12:21:27 PMSince you probably share my profound boredom with painting horses, gentlemen (and the rest of you), this might be a useful item to glance at:

  http://majnouna.deviantart.com/art/Guide-to-Horse-Colors-and-Patterns-243666224

And remember to paint a Sioux army at least once in your life, where the horses get to wear warpaint too.

Clearly that poster was done on an A4 sheet by a previous winner of the Pendraken painting competition.   

I think I'd struggle to read it if it was blown up to wall size.   

They look great!

QuoteClearly that poster was done on an A4 sheet by a previous winner of the Pendraken painting competition. 

I think I'd struggle to read it if it was blown up to wall size. 

There's something slightly easier to read here: Painting Horses.

All the GW paint names have changed since this was written, so you'll have to adapt accordingly.

To collegialhogie - As Fred says, they look great!