28mm Napoleonic French: 1st Tirailleur Grenadiers 1st BTN

 

These figures, from Piano Miniatures, were a real challenge to paint. Lovely figures but very fiddly to paint. . I had no plans to add any guard to my French army but I wanted to get a close-up look at Piano Minis and they did not disappoint. Maybe I will have to buy another battalion's worth of figures at some stage as one battalion on it's own would feel rather lonely.

Or I could sell this battalion if anybody wants it – for the right price of course. PM me if you want to discuss it.

28mm ECW Royalist: Lord Molyneux Horse

 

Last of this current painting batch is the second horse regiment for the Royalists. I will return to this project soon as I have ordered a plastic regiment of Horse from Warlord Games just to see what they are like. Buy otherwise I have other projects for the next three months or so.

On a side note concerning the massive fires raging around Bordeaux. I live about 120 kilometres due east of that city and the other night the sky was filled with smoke which had drifted all the way here and the air was full of the acrid smell of burning. It was a reminder of what we are doing to our planet.

28mm ECW Royalist: Queen's Lifeguard Regiment of Foot.

 The fourth foot regiment so far completed out of a planned five for the Royalists. I will complete another horse regiment before I return in August to other projects.

28mm ECW Royalist: C-in-C Prince Maurice (Moritz Pfalzgraf von der Pfalz)

 

This is my three figure command base for the Royalist army. Maurice is an interesting chap and in many ways more charismatic, although less flamboyant, than his elder brother Prince Rupert. He also had a number of independent commands suitable for this small early-war army of 5,000.

Two of the figures are from 1^st Corps and the third from Avanpost which I bought many years ago before the war. The BCW Project has an excellent biography of him here:

https://bcw-project.org.uk/biography/prince-maurice

28mm ECW Royalist: Foot regiment of Henry Tillier.

 This is the third foot regiment of my first Royalist battalia, the front line, and the only one I know of with it's own Facebook page. Apparently green was a colour associated with this regiment and the gyronny system was used on it's flags. Beyond that, the rest is my conjecture. Figures by 1^st corps and flags from Flags of War. All that is left to do for this brigade is a general and two light guns.

28mm ECW Royalist: Foot regiment of Sir Gilbert Talbot

 Back in May 2024 I showed you the first of the foot regiments and that was the 'blue' regiment of John Belasyse. Here is the second and it is the yellow regiment of Sir Gilbert Talbot. I really like these 1^st Corps figures, not just because 'unit deals' are well priced. The third unit of this battalia will be Henry Tillier's and that will follow soon.

I have always got to paint both sides (one of the problems of living in rural France) so I will follow my normal rule of 12/12 or about 12 units for each side to finish the armies. Flags are from Flags of War.

28mm FPW 1870:1st French Brigade

 Six battalions of the 1^st French brigade under General de Brigade Montmarie.16^th Chasseur regiment, three battalions of the 50^th ligne and two battalions of the 74^th.

That's about half of the infantry I have planned.