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

Tuesday, 16 April 2019

The War of Spanish Succession... British First Foot Guards.

This is the first of the units that I bought from my good friend Adrian...


The First Foot Guards...


Raised in 1656.


In The War of Spanish Succession they saw action at...


The Schellenberg... 1704.
Blenheim... 1704.
Gibraltar... 1704-1705.
Ramillies... 1706.
Oudenarde... 1708.
Malplaquet... 1709.


The only things I have done to these are..


Tidy up a few chips...
Varnish the leather goods...
Re flag..
And rebase...


And they look lovely...








The Standards were made using the Robert hall plate (GB01) from the Pike and Shot Society plus some Photoshop magic.
https://www.pikeandshotsociety.org/


The bases were, as always... Warbases.
https://warbases.co.uk/product-category/bases/premier-bases-metric/


The miniatures are... Front Rank.
https://www.frontrank.com/product-category/18th-century/spanish-succession/wss-british-infantry/




All the best   Aly
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25 comments:

  1. Natholeon16 April 2019 at 22:07

    They look fantastic, Aly.

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    1. Aly Morrison17 April 2019 at 07:14

      Thank you...
      And with very little effort by me...;-)

      All the best. Aly

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  2. Jonathan Freitag16 April 2019 at 22:15

    I sure enjoy seeing your work on this project. Your Redcoats are superb!

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    1. Aly Morrison17 April 2019 at 07:15

      I am looking forward to getting more based up...

      All the best. Aly

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  3. Phil17 April 2019 at 06:23

    Outstanding work Aly, contrats!

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    1. Aly Morrison17 April 2019 at 07:18

      They have turned out well... and with so little effort... ;-)

      All the best. Aly

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  4. rross17 April 2019 at 06:46

    Great stuff Aly - the uniforms in this period really are very attractive indeed - Mark and I (and the rest of our group) must try having another WSS game sometime!

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    1. Aly Morrison17 April 2019 at 07:20

      This collection gets prettier by the unit...

      I am itching for a game...

      All the best. Aly

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  5. Matt Crump17 April 2019 at 07:03

    Beautiful work......a very splendid unit 😀

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    1. Aly Morrison17 April 2019 at 07:21

      What’s not to like about the First Foot Guards... :-)

      All the best. Aly

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  6. marinergrim17 April 2019 at 07:26

    Very nice too Aly.

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  7. David17 April 2019 at 08:33

    A fine looking addition to your project Aly!

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  8. Phil Robinson17 April 2019 at 08:59

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    1. Phil Robinson17 April 2019 at 17:50

      Well that came out complete gibberish, bloody spell checker.
      Will keep it simple, very nice Aly.

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    2. Aly Morrison17 April 2019 at 17:54

      It made perfect sense to me...
      But there again... I am used to you. :-)

      All the best. Aly

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  9. Mark Strachan18 April 2019 at 04:05

    They are very nice Aly. I like the simplicity of the flags too.

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    1. Aly Morrison18 April 2019 at 07:15

      They are indeed Mark...
      The reason I went for the pre 1707 colours was because of their clean graphic look.

      All the best. Aly

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  10. caveadsum147119 April 2019 at 16:47

    Lovely looking unit, indeed, what's not to like?
    Best Iain

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    1. Aly Morrison19 April 2019 at 20:09

      You won’t find me disagreeing...;-)

      All the best. Aly

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  11. Christopher(aka Axebreaker)19 April 2019 at 20:31

    Great looking regiment Aly!

    Christopher

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  12. Norm20 April 2019 at 04:17

    lovely figures, paint job and tones. I do like the frontages of three to a base.

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    1. Aly Morrison20 April 2019 at 15:18

      I find that the three stand format works for most rules... I have some four stand units that count as large battalions.

      All the best. Aly

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