15/18mm WSS: Khurasan – Dutch Regiment Friesheim

 

15/18mm WSS: Khurasan – Dutch Regiment Pallandt

The first of the 4 planned Dutch battalions. I painted this one because I love the flags and yellow facings.

15/18mm WSS: Khurasan – 3rd Foot Churchill's

 

Another lovely battalion of 36 figures.

18mm Old Glory: WAS Austrians: Karlstädter-Lykaner Grenzer

These are very nice Old Glory figures – the detailing is superb although the muskets are rather vulnerable. I want to do a couple of battalions (duplicating them in close and skirmish order) and here is the first in close order. I found this illustration of a flag on the web but I have no idea concerning it's accuracy. It's certainly unusual in it's swallow-tail guidon form. Dave Morfitt has done lovely artwork, as usual.

 

12mm Epic Scale ECW: Royalist Cavalry 2

 

The Queen's Lifeguard, the second of the cavalry regiments.

18mm Old Glory: WAS Austrians: IR Lothringen

 

Both battalions finished. I could do a third battalion, as that was quite common in this period, but I prefer to stick to two battalion regiments.

18mm Old Glory: WAS Austrians: IR Lothringen 1st BTN

 

This is a new project. I wanted to do the WAS, in preference to the SYW, because Austria deployed it's infantry in 4 ranks and the flags of Charles VI were so much more interesting, colourful and varied to those from the later war. Plus I really like OG's figures and indeed I actually prefer them to Blue Moon's. For cavalry nobody beats Eureka. I have also done 5 battalions of Prussians using Blue Moon but I might sell them and re-work them with OG figures.

Most of the flags I will be using come from Dave Morfitt's lovely website Not by Appointment.