The War of Spanish Succession... A Parade.

Greetings...


So here it is a Parade...


First up...

The British/English...


And in no particular order... The Units...

Next up...

The Allies...

And now...

The French...

Well there you go... not a bad collection... or possibly start of a collection.


It was interesting as I put these images together how much my Blogging has changed...


The earlier pictures are not very well catalogued... They are just in a folder called WSS..
The later units are all in separate folders which include original photo's, cropped photo's, standards and uniform details... An interesting learning curve indeed.


The early units have Purchased standards... The latter ones are home made...
My photographs have changed subtly... A new camera has helped along with a light tent and an improved ability to crop pictures...


This has and will continue to be a very enjoyable project...


Right I am going to get on my butterfly and flutter around for a while...


All the best   Aly

Bits and pieces... A new Table Top.

Greetings...


Over the last few months I have realised that my Green Baize table covering has become harder and harder to keep looking nice...
Even with a dust sheet covering it most of the time... it is still a fluff magnet and seems to become bobbly when you just look at it...


So I have decided to bite the bullet and cover the table with something a bit more robust...


I have gone for linoleum...
I saw someone on another blog using linoleum and I thought what a good idea... its designed to be walked on so it should stand up to having terrain boards and toy soldiers placed on it...

The colour is called... Green Wellness... Its actually paler than it looks in this picture...

With some shiny toys... Its actually a bit greener than this picture shows...the room was brightened up by a rather unseasonal burst of sunlight...
I will only use it for playing shiny toy soldier games... I was thinking of experimenting on some off cuts using chalk pens to mark out rivers and roads...


Next time... A Parade.

The War of Spanish Succession... British Artillery and Infantry Regiment North and Grey.

Greetings...


This will be the last two, War of Spanish Succession units for the moment...
I now have more than enough troops to play a game on my 5'X7' table... In fact if I put everything on I am not sure there would be much room for manoeuvre...
Oh! dear what a terrible problem to have...


First up...
British Artillery...

 
These have been based the same way a I did the French Artillery and with four crew they represent two medium guns(Or batteries depending on what rules you are using).


The Coats are... Citadel... Evil Sunz Scarlet...
The Facings, Waistcoat and Socks are... Citadel... Kantor Blue.
The Piping and Braid are... Citadel... Averland Sunset.
The Belts and Straps are... Foundry... Buff Leather 7B.
The White bits are... Citadel... Pallid Wytch Flesh.
The Guns are... Citadel... Administratum Grey with a slightly diluted wash of Contrast Gryph-Charger Grey which was then lightly dry brushed with the original colour.
The Barrel and Metal Work are... Citadel... Abaddon Black.

The crew were all given a coat of Aly's Brown Liquid and re highlighted with the original shade.


The Gun Barrel and black leather goods were all given a coat of Gloss Varnish.


I am very pleased with these... The red coats contrast nicely with the sombre dark guns.


Next up...


North and Grey's Regiment of foot...


The regiment was raised on 20 June 1685 as the Earl of Baths Regiment...
It became North and Grey's in 1703 and fought at...
Blenheim. 1704.
Ramillies. 1706.
And Malplaquet. 1709.


In 1751 they became the 10th Regiment of Foot.
And in 1881 The Lincolnshire Regiment.
Finally in 1964 they became part of The Royal Anglian Regiment.

These are the final painted unit that I bought from my good friend Adrian...
All they needed was a few chips and scuffs tidied up... Re-Flagged and Re-Based.

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


The standards are based on the Robert Hall plate GB03 from the Pike And Shot Society.


https://www.pikeandshotsociety.org/


I shall try and put some sort of parade together in the near future...


So when are they coming out to play I hear you ask...


Boxing Day...


Mharaid and I have decided to give these brave little tin men their first baptism of fire as part of this years Xmas game...
There will certainly be lots of opportunity for lots of 'new unit syndrome'...


So...
What next?


I am at this moment putting some rather nice Green Linoleum on my wargames table... the green baize was becoming to difficult to keep clean and bobble free... you can only shave your table so many times...
I also have some Napoleonics on the painting desk... more additions to the Drums and Shakos collection.
I will probably flutter about a bit till New Year...


All the best Aly