28mm ECW Royalist: Foot regiment of John Belasyse, 1st Baron Belasyse

 

I am not sure why I got drawn into ECW in 28mm, given that I am currently on a long run with Epic scale, but I was curious about the figures from 1st Corps and wanted to look at them. I bought a foot regiment and one of horse too. Here is the foot regiment – a 'blue' Royalist one.

Belasyse was a rich man who raised six regiments of horse and foot soldiers at his own expense. He was a catholic who married three times and fathered six daughters. He lived through the reigns of both Charles's and James and died in 1689. He looks very splendid in his portrait dated 1636.

12mm Epic Scale ECW: Royalist Foot 5 and 6

 

White regiment of Sir Henry Bard and the red regiment of Sir Ralph Hopton.

28mm SYW French: Royal Dragoons

 

So this is the first of the two Dragoon regiments to finish off my French army. I have used the same figures which work fine, differences being mostly resolved by paint. The other one will be Caraman. Thanks to Frederic Aubert for the lovely flags.

12mm Epic Scale ECW: Royalist Foot 3 and 4

 

The purple regiment belonged to Colonel Bagot and the green regiment to the Earl of Northampton. I have followed the lazy principle of using the flag colour for the coat colour. There is no justification for this but it will give a colourful looking army. I try to mix in a few brown coated men in with them for variety too.

12mm Epic Scale ECW: King's Lifeguard and Prince Rupert's Foot Regiment

 

A new project is afoot! Well actually quite a few regiments of 'foot'. Here are the first two Royalist regiments and we will be doing 14.

28mm SYW French: Tallyrand Cavalry

This is the last of the Horse regiments (so 9 in total) which, using French nomenclature, are classified as cavalerie légère or light Horse. I will also be doing two Dragoon regiments to finish off the left wing. The Talleyrand coat of arms was red with three golden lions rampant so I have given the musician a red coat.

 

28mm Perry Plastics FPW 1870: French Infantry

 

Here are the latest FPW French infantry from the Perrys. I have painted two battalions, the first and second of a notional Regiment. The Eagle and flag are carried by the second battalion. They are nice figures but the coats are so voluminous that it's quite hard to fit all the figures on a stadard plastic green base.

I posted a Prussian battalion back in August 2021 and actually I prefer the poses of those figures although the French uniform is quite pretty. The Perry uniform quide is, as always, useful but not detailed enough concerning the kepi so I have posted here a more detailed picture of the kepi from a reproduction company in France.