A holiday project - Part 2

As I mentioned earlier I had decided to paint my 10mm SYW forces over the holiday period.

The Allied forces were pretty much finished yesterday - there's a bit of touch up to be done and the bases will be flocked at a later date.

The array deployed under Lt Gen von Imhoff:

The table is an old card table.  The figures are Pendraken 10mm in battalions of 24 and cavalry regiments of 12 in two squadrons.

The Hessian Prinz Friedrich Dragoons with the Hanoverian Busch Dragoons in the second line:

The Hessian Mansbach and Erbprinz Regiments:

The Hessian Haudring (later Toll) and Ysenberg Regiments, with converged Hessian grenadiers in the background:

 The Hessian infantry are in early uniforms - indeed there is debate as to whether the blue breeches were phased out before the Seven Years War - but it serves to distinguish them from the Brunswickers.  Their (speculative) colours are taken from the Kronoskaf site - again I decided to use earlier rather than later colours.

The Hanoverian 12 pounders:

 The two battalions of the Brunswick Imhoff Regiment:

 The right wing cavalry of the Hanoverian Reden and Hessian Prinz Friedrich cavalry regiments:

There is little difference in the main features of these two regiments despite being from different states. My painting isn't good enough to differentiate the pre-cast hanging standards by more than the main colour and a sense of devices.

Anyway, I've completed what I aimed to do at the start of the holidays - now to start using the small French and Allied forces to test out some rules.

A holiday project - Part 1

One of the things I've decided to do for the Christmas and New Year holidays is to progress my small 10mm SYW Allied and French forces so that I can solo test a few rule sets in January.  I based up my 10mm SYW  over the summer and undercoated them, then painting most of 2 battalions of French.  Then it all stalled.

My painting tends to be of the 'get in on the table' quality - basically I'm not very good at it.  If I can tell the unit while playing that's good enough for me.  They are also more in 'The Wargame' style so not designed to be realistic in terms of basing etc.   The combination of my eyes and lack of dexterity mean that lace etc is impressionistic and I've also avoided doing buttons.

Over the weekend and this morning I finished painting the French (not yet varnished and there may be some touching up to do).  For now the infantry standards are paper (Warflag and self made) while I work out what to do longer term.

The French:  Lt General St German leads the French advance guard

The French force consists of two two battalion regiments (Provence and D'Eu), a battalion of Grenadiers de France, three two squadron regiments of cavalerie leger (Conde, Rochefaucault, Du Roi) and two squadrons of dragoons (Orleans) plus a battery of two 8 pounders.  All figures are Pendraken.  Bases are all 25mm/1 inch wide (20mm deep for infantry, 25mm for cavalry.  Brigadiers/MdC are on UK 1 pence pieces and the General and his aide on a 2 pence piece.  Infantry are in 24 man battalions and cavalry in 6 figure squadrons.

Provence with the lead battalion of D'Eu in the background:

 D'Eu with the Grenadiers de France behind, followed by the Orleans dragoons:

The Artillery and the General (the barrels are bronze but the flash seems to have affected them):

Conde, Rochefoucault (both in grey-white) and Du Roi (blue coats):

In due course there will be limbers for the 8pdrs.  I've also got a foreign battalion (may be painted either Reding (Swiss) or La Marck (German)) and some supply wagons on order.

The Allies may take a bit longer :-)  Hopefully I'll be able to post part 2 with the Allied forces around the New Year.

The rule sets I intend to test out include:

• Field of Battle
• Classic Piquet Cartouche (closely related to the above)
• Minden Rose
• Maurice Lite
• Black Powder