18mm Old Glory: SYW/WAS Prussians: 1/23 Bandemer Converged Grenadiers

 These are converged grenadiers of IR1 and IR23, both with silver-faced mitres, and they featured in most of the major SYW battles. The officer of IR23 is wearing a mitre which is incorrect (officers always wore a tricorne) but lets assume he lost his headwear from the hot gust of a cannonball, and had to make do with the first thing he could find. Interestingly, officers in Hanoverian service could wear the mitre.

Four 'big' battalions for the Prussians are finished.

18mm Eureka: WAS Anhalt-Zerbst Austrian Cuirassiers

 Four squadrons of Anhalt-Zerbst Cuirassier regiment, each squadron is 7 figures so 28 in total. Figures are Eureka.

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.