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.

28mm FPW 1870: 3e Regiment de Tirailleurs Algerians,1st and 3rd BTNs

 I finally finished the second battalion of this Turcos regiment and so I show both together. I assume the second battalion is elsewhere and that the heavy backpacks have been dropped of along the road somewhere.

I'm planning about 12 battalions of French with attached artillery and cavalry. Six have been done. The Prussians will be about the same size.

18mm SYW: Prussian CR12 Baron von Kyau Cuirassiers

 This regiment of Cuirassiers, with 5 squadrons, forms the second regiment of my left wing cavalry brigade under von Pasadowsky.

28mm Napoleonic French: 9th Hussars

 

Two squadrons of this regiment.

28mm Napoleonic French: Vistula Lancers

 

I've had these sitting around for a couple of years so it was high time I finished the regiment. These are Warlord Games figures and I'm not the greatest fan of their horses but nonetheless I'm happy to add this unit to my Napoleonic French army.

18mm SYW: Prussian DR8 Langermann Dragoons

Sometime between the WAS and SYW Prussian dragoons switched their coat colour from white to blue, the date of this change I'm unsure of. Furthermore the shade of blue if often shown as any shade between light blue and medium blue. Kronoskaf has an interesting article by a major contributor Ibrahim90 suggesting a much darker shade of blue.

https://www.kronoskaf.com/syw/index.php?title=Prussian_Dragoons_Uniforms

I attach a picture (where I got it I'm not sure) of an actual Dragoon coat,either SYW era or even Napoleonic, that shows the colour I am aiming for, bearing in mind that certain liberties need to be taken the smaller the figures being painted.

Here is the whole regiment, five squadrons strong, 35 figures.

 

18mm SYW/WAS: 2 squadrons of FreiKorps Kleist Hussars

 This started off with just a single squadron but this was raised to 5 by 1761. They had a very distinctive uniform of orangey-red with grass-green pelisse. I will field 6 figure squadrons of hussars in the Prussian army (roughly 100 men) and 8 figure squadrons in the Austrian army, the latter being noticeably stronger on paper.