Those are gorgeous!

Quote from: DecemDave on 21 June 2022, 10:30:05 AMClearly 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.   

I'm able to zoom in on it by clicking on it twice...

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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

QuoteThere'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!

Thanks for the suggestions and linking to those resources! I've had some information from a table at Tacitus.nu about the most common horse colours used in the different horse regiments, for Ösgöta cavalry regiment being 42% Bay/dark bay (I think that's correct english term), but says nothing about markings. Apparently the preferred colour was Bay and Black but most of all a dark colour as much as possible. I'm gonig to have a look at Henry Waxbergs old "The horse in the Carolean cavalry" to see if they had any regulations concerning white markings!

I'm also happy to have recieved a sample of 1 figure each of the SYW infantry in march attack pose from Pendraken to so I could decide which works the best as a proxy for Swedish carolean infantry. I've quickly painted them up and this is how they look:



Top picture, from left to right: SYF23(French), SYA1(Austrian), SYR6(Russian),SYB1(British)

The prussian figure was disqualified before painting since they apparently didn't really have tricorns.
As you can see, either of them would work decently on the tabletop as a swedish unit. Some things to consider:

SYF23:
The closest proxy for swedish carolean infantry.
Plus: closed coat with turnbacks.
Minus: Cockade on tricorne, two scabards(?).

SYA1:
Plus: No cockade on tricorn, single scabar, long hair.
Minus: open "prussian" coat, a big second bag on the left hip that conceals the turnbacks.

SYR6
Plus: single bag, long hair in hair pouch, clearly visible turnbacks on left hip.
Minus: open "prussian" coat.

SYB1
Plus: single bag, clearly visible turnbacks on left hip.
Minus: open "prussian" coat, short hair.

In the end, I decided that I will use SYF23 as the marching proxy and SYR6 as the march attack proxy, but it was a very close call between the figures in march attack pose.

I would of course love for the swedish range to expand in the future, but this will certainly do for now! I haven't tried to trim down the cockade on these samples but I may do when I receieve my next order.

My understanding is Bays usually had darker brown/grey (almost black) markings

Quote from: DecemDave on 21 June 2022, 10:30:05 AMClearly 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.   

Open it in MS Paint, then you can read it, albeit not all on the screen at the same time.  You can cut the bits that you are interested in into small files and print them.  That's what I did anyway.

Quote from: paulr on 30 June 2022, 08:55:35 AMMy understanding is Bays usually had darker brown/grey (almost black) markings

Yes, Bays do have very dark brown (charcoal in appearance) manes, tails and lower legs.  Chestnuts are pretty much the same brown colour overall.  Both can have white leg and facial markings, but people tend to overdo these when painting horses in my view, particularly in 10mm. White markings can be almost invisible,
I rather like painting horses although greys are the most difficult to get right I find, fortunately the British army stopped mounting musicians on greys in 1799.
Some final points, for what they are worth, never use pure black on horses - far too stark and doesn't exist in nature.  Go for a Black-Grey such as Vallejo's.  Finish horses with an egg-shell varnish to give them a bit of a sheen and, lastly, other-ranks horses in the British army were nag-tailed.   

After popping in on Discord to have a look at the Pendraken birthday party, I had some time to picture the latest addition to the battle of Helsingborg.

I've finished up two small units from the second line of the swedish left flank, Smålands kavalleriregemente and Skånska tre- och femmänningsregementet till häst.

These are two very different units, Småland being one of the original "indelta"/alloted cavalry regiments raised before the war and was part of the King's army fighting at Kliszów 1702, Pułtusk 1703, Warszawa 1705, Holowczyn 1708, until it was lost at Poltava, and reraised for the defence of Skåne in 1709, and the other one being one of the temporary regiments raised in 1700 by combining three and five rusthåll to set up one extra cavalryman, only participating in one field battle, i.e at Helsingborg.

Johan Valentin von Daldorff, the colonel of Smålands, was originally a messenger of the duke of Holstein-Gottorp sent to its ally Sweden with the news of the peace at Travendal, and then took service in the Swedish army. Daldroff avoided capture at Poltava and followed Charles XII into the Ottoman empire and participated in the skirmish at Bender, got back to Sweden to lead his reraised regiment, finally meeting his end in the battle of Stresow 1715.

Count Göran Gyllenstierna was the colonel of Skånska tre- och femmänningsregementet till häst, and apart from a member of the high nobility also an experienced career officer serving in the coalition army in the nine years' war, and later in the defence of the homeland.  As the line commander on the left flank he distinguished himself in the battle, and was promoted to Major General by Stenbock.

Those are lovely sir!

I like those

      

I've finished my first Danish infantry unit:
Prins Christians Regiment.
The unit was rented out to serve abroad in Italy and Hungary during the War of Spanish Succession, participating at the battles of Mantua and Luzzara, returning to Denmark in 1709 to participate at Helsingborg and later at Gadebusch.

Its commander Johann Heinrich Lattorf was originally from Anhalt, and served in the Danish auxiliary troops in Ireland, Flanders and Brabant, before taking command over Prince Christian's regiment in 1708. He was killed at the Battle of Helsingborg 1710.

The regiment's two(out of three) participating battallions suffered catastrophic losses at Helsingborg, as around 506 men and officers were left on the field dead or wounded, and a further 380 men capitulated to the Swedish forces.




Split up as two 18-fig units they can double as one unit of Prins Christians Regiment and one unit of the Østsjællendske nationale infanteriregiment:

Very nice, I liked the Prins Christians' flags.

Good stuff

Very nice