18mm Old Glory: SYW/WAS Prussians: IR 24 Schwerin Musketeers 1st BTN

 

Another battalion done with pretty flags from Dave Morfitt.

18mm Old Glory: WAS Prussians: IR 44 Jungkenn Müntzer Fusiliers 1st BTN

 

Here is the first battalion of the regiment and the third photo has both battalions.

18mm Old Glory: WAS Prussians: IR 44 Jungkenn Müntzer Fusiliers 2nd BTN

 

Years ago I painted up an army of SYW Prussians using Old Glory figures. When I say 'years ago' I probably mean at least 40 years ago. I always loved the dynamism of the infantry although I hated, and still do, the cavalry mounted on pygmy horses. Anyway, you may have seen some of my Austrian units (the cavalry in particular are Eureka figures)

which I posted here in April.

So here is the first of the Prussian units. Grand scale, you could say, in the sense that each battalion has 36 figures. Note that I replace the bendy original flag staves with steel pins to enable the use of larger flags.

Anyway I am pleased with the results.

28mm WAS/SYW French: IR55 Waldner (Swiss) 2nd battalion

 

Here is the second battalion of Waldner and the final battalion of my French army. I've also finished off more generals. All that remains to do is some cavalry generals.

Flags are from GMB.

28mm WAS/SYW French: IR55 Waldner (Swiss) 1st battalion

 Here is the first of this two-battalion regiment and, when both are finished, that completes my French army of 22 battalions, 26 squadrons and three batteries.

Flags are from GMB.

28mm WAS/SYW French: 104th Royal Lorraine, both battalions

Here is the finished regiment. Just one regiment to go until this army is completed so I thought I'd add a splash of red in the form of a Swiss regiment.

 

28mm WAS/SYW French: 104th Royal Lorraine

 

Back in April 2010 I painted this regiment for a friend. I was living in Thailand at the time (what a great place!!) and my camera was the opposite of hi-end.

https://nigbilpainter.blogspot.com/2010/04/104th-royal-lorraine-was.html

But I promised myself that I would have this regiment in my own army one day. My French army is aimed to be for the end of the SYW and this uniform may have been the WAS version but I have given myself artistic licence. Furthermore the earlier time frame had this as a two battalion regiment but by the SYW it was down to one. So two is what I will do.

The uniform for the WAS was as per the Biles illustration (yellow coat). By 1758 the coat was pale grey/white with yellow cuffs and by 1761 it had changed again. The flags were by Dave Morfitt.

One last note about the drummers' livery. Stanisław Leszczyński was Duke of Lorraine and Barrois so while the regiment's drummers (according to Kronoskaf) used the French royal livery in the SYW, my suspicion is that for the earlier WAS period, the drummers might have used the livery of the Duke of Lorraine based upon his coat of arms of a bull's head on a yellow background.