Wednesday, 15 August 2018
Russian SYW Jaegers
Wednesday, 8 August 2018
Russian Artillery 1
Here
are the first batteries of the enormous Russian artillery train. Four
batteries of 12pdrs, each battery 6 guns/3 models. The crew are from
Foundry and the guns are from the extensive range from Fife &
Drum. Jim Purky has done a brilliant job on modelling the large number of Russian guns for this period.
1st Russian Pandours
I
have not posted much recently as I have had a long haul through
Russian SYW artillery and have now finished them – 16 batteries in
all. I will be posting pictures over the next few months, as and when
I get them based.
Meanwhile
on to Russian light infantry. There were 3 Pandour regiments and one
Jaeger. Dealing with the Pandours, uniform details are sketchy but
Viscovatov
says they wore black coats but Kronoskaf, while agreeing with that,
shows a Knotel plate with brown coats and also illustrates the 3rd
in light blue. So I will do all three and put them in all three of
the different coat colours without any particular evidence as to
which wore what.
Here
is the first regiment with it's grenadier company as well (on the
left of the pictures). There are only two small differences for the
grenadiers – a slightly different, and much larger, hat plate and a
waist box. Figures are from Foundry and these are a first for me –
the first time I have painted an 18th century unit in
sombre black. I also think that these are the best grenzer type
figures available in 28mm. You could use them for the Austrians too
if you removed the cap badge.
Read
more about them here:
Monday, 16 July 2018
28mm WAS Spanish Guards
I
have painted here three battalions of the Spanish Guards, in their
smart blue uniforms copied from the French Guards. A Spanish army
will be the opponents of the Piedmontese army (mostly finished) and
the key brigade in the Spanish army will be the Guards. I will do a
further three battalions of the Walloon Guards in due course. The
only difference in their uniforms will be a black cockade instead of
the red the Spanish Guards wore.
Here
are the first Spanish reinforcements sent to the Kingdom of the Two
Sicilies in 1741.
Spanish
Guard Infantry Regiment (6)(2,20l)
Walloon
Guard Infantry Regiment (6)(2,l33)
Reyna
Infantry Regiment (2)(l,l00)
Lombardy
Infantry Regiment (2)( l,067)
Irlanda
(Irish) Infantry Regiment (2)(l,037)
Bessler
(Swiss) Infantry Regiment (l)(598)
Carabinier
Cavalry Regiment (3)(263)
Sagunta
Dragoon Regiment (3)(202)
Artillery
and Train (588)
Munitions
Transport (62)
Which
averaged out at about 420 men per battalion. It is worth noting also
that the cavalry went without their horses and that when they arrived
they scrabbled around to find mounts.
The
Royal Navy was supposed to be blockading the eastern Spanish coast
and the Western Mediterranean in general to prevent this happening at
all but this period was one of those rare times when the British
admiral in charge (Haddock) was not up to the job.
Finding
the correct figures for the Spanish has taken time because they wore
their coats buttoned-up at the chest while most Europeans wore their
coats open showing the waistcoats underneath. The only other nation
suitable for substitution is GNW Swedes. There are a couple of
companies who make Spanish WAS troops but either the range is
incomplete or I just don't like the figures. So here most of the
figures are from Ebor although a couple of old Capitulation figures (
a long defunct French company) have crept in. The Ebor figures come
with separate heads so you can get plenty of variety into the
battalions. I have added waist pouches easily made from balsa wood.
Sunday, 15 July 2018
eBay Napoleonic French battalions for sale
These are for sale at very silly prices..............here
https://www.ebay.com/sch/nigbil999/m.html?_nkw=&_armrs=1&_ipg=&_from=
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