ALY MORRISON'S "BUTTERFLY" ADVENTURES IN THE WORLD OF WARGAMES AND TOY SOLDIERS

Monday 6 August 2018

The War of Spanish Succession... Osnabruck/Lorraine Leibregiment

Another new unit finished....


These guys started life as an eBay purchase...
They were painted in very neat flat colours so they saved me the time of blocking them in... the only thing that they needed was a second standard bearer... fortunately I had some at hand.






The colours were surprisingly easy to match...


The Coat was... Foundry... Forest Green Shade 26A... with a touch of Foundry Sky Blue Shade 21A and Sky Blue 21.
The Facings were... Citadel... Khorne Red.
The Belts were... Foundry... Moss Light 29C


I painted out the eyes and re-did them in my own style and re-painted the buttons in a brighter gold.
They were given a coat of Aly's Brown Liquid then highlighted...


I had originally intended to use them as Walloon's ... which is what they were sold as... but alas finding information on their standards has not been easy... well in fact I could find none...


Fortunately I found Osnabruck/Lorraine ... Green Coats and Red Facings... I left the hat tape yellow, even though a later uniform... Grey coats with Green facings has the hat tape white... I think the yellow goes better with the green and I like it that way... so sue me.








The standards came from Arnaud Bunel's Vexillologie militaire europeenne.
   http://drapeaux.org/Accueil.htm


The miniatures are as always Front Rank...
https://www.frontrank.com/product-category/18th-century/spanish-succession/
The paints are Citadel...
https://www.games-workshop.com/en-GB/Painting-Modelling
And Wargames Foundry
https://www.wargamesfoundry.com/collections/paint
Bases from Warbases...
https://warbases.co.uk/?product_cat=premier-bases-metric


I am very pleased with this unit... nice and quick and I really like the flags...
I have another three from the same vendor... so hopefully this should speed things along quite nicely.


All the best  Aly



24 comments:

  1. Nice! The yellow hat tape goes very well with the green coat.
    Great looking unit and flags are fab!

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    1. Thank you Jonathan...
      I do like a nice flag... this one is particularly colourful.

      All the best. Aly

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  2. Spruced up a treat there Sir, bravo!

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  3. A grand addition! They brushed up nicely!

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  4. Lovely brushwork Aly. They come up a treat.

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  5. Nice work and a good buy off eBay 😀

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    1. Thank you Matt...
      I will n
      Be keeping my eye out for more.

      All the best. Aly

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  6. Another great Front Rank addition to your WSS collection Aly

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    1. Thank you Keith...

      I do think that Front Rank work so well for this period...

      All the best. Aly

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  7. Lovely unit Aly. I agree they are indeed handsome flags.

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    1. Thank you Mark...
      Indeed I was won over as soon as I saw them.

      All the best. Aly

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  8. Nice unit and lovely flags!
    Best Iain

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  9. Wow that's nice! I'm definitely following your blog.

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  10. Thank you David...

    All the best. Aly

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  11. Aly, I'm painting the Osnabruck at the moment but can't access drapeaux.org. You wouldn't have a copy of the flag you used would you?

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    1. Wow!... that's a bit of a sod ...
      It looks like the whole domain is gone... It was a very useful site.
      Alas I do not have a copy of the flag I made... I foolishly thought that I would always be able to return to the site if I needed to...
      I have however found this...

      https://www.leagueofaugsburg.com/fightingtalk/viewtopic.php?t=4429
      Hopefully you will be able to open the link...
      The colonels flag is different... but Robert hall shows both in his book 'Imperial Austrian Army 1683-1720'

      Hopefully this is of some help...

      All the best Aly

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    2. Found it. Thanks very much Aly. My boys have the later grey coat, but they still have green cuffs! They'll enjoy having the correct flags.

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  12. I look forward to seeing them in action...

    All the best. Aly

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