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.

28mm WAS/SYW French: 104th Royal Lorraine, both battalions

Here is the finished regiment. Just one regiment to go until this army is completed so I thought I'd add a splash of red in the form of a Swiss regiment.

 

28mm WAS/SYW French: 104th Royal Lorraine

 

Back in April 2010 I painted this regiment for a friend. I was living in Thailand at the time (what a great place!!) and my camera was the opposite of hi-end.

https://nigbilpainter.blogspot.com/2010/04/104th-royal-lorraine-was.html

But I promised myself that I would have this regiment in my own army one day. My French army is aimed to be for the end of the SYW and this uniform may have been the WAS version but I have given myself artistic licence. Furthermore the earlier time frame had this as a two battalion regiment but by the SYW it was down to one. So two is what I will do.

The uniform for the WAS was as per the Biles illustration (yellow coat). By 1758 the coat was pale grey/white with yellow cuffs and by 1761 it had changed again. The flags were by Dave Morfitt.

One last note about the drummers' livery. Stanisław Leszczyński was Duke of Lorraine and Barrois so while the regiment's drummers (according to Kronoskaf) used the French royal livery in the SYW, my suspicion is that for the earlier WAS period, the drummers might have used the livery of the Duke of Lorraine based upon his coat of arms of a bull's head on a yellow background.

28mm Napoleonic French: Maréchal d'empire

 

Here is the C-in-C of my French Napoleonic army, although which marshal has yet to be decided.

28mm Napoleonic French: 19th Legere, 1st and 2nd battalions.

 

I have painted these in 'almost' full dress. I say 'almost' because although they have their plumes, and some have their epaulettes as well, none of them have their laced boots. That's because the Perry plastic sculpts don't have them. Colourful chaps though.

40mm SYW: Lieutenant-General Friedrich Wilhelm Baron von Seydlitz

Here is a two-figure command group for the cavalry of my Prussian army. The Seydlitz figure is a cuirassier officer (in resin) from Day of Battle Games and the hussar is a metal Fleischhacker from Sash and Saber, both in the USA. Postal rates to Europe from that country have gone up enormously so I'm having to limit future orders.