Hello again,
(a little aquarelle, I did in Galicia, mi little kids…)
I will began with two entries (Granadiers and Light Infantry); I did them some time ago, not very glad with the result, so I retouch the paintworks; But there is only one reference with four poses of each type of unit and compatibility with other figures -for making new ones- practically impossible.
Granadiers.
They were the elite troops of each regiment, being the tallest and strongest men of theses. At first, they were in separates companies. Later, as with the Light Infantry, Instead of using them in separated companies, (each regiment infantry was composed of eight regular companies, plus one of light infantry and one of Granadiers) in this conflict they formed units of eight Granadiers companies, taking them from others eight regular regiments.
Uniforms
Uniforms were similar to the regular
infantry too, but with these main differences;
-The fur cap with metal plate.
-The tailed coat with wings as the Light infantry.
-As each company came from one different regimen, their lining color is different in each base.
-these kind of units didn’t use to have their own flag o musician.
we have only one reference in the market; A call to Arms set 65 “British infantry 1775”. Actually this set is composed of four poses of Granadiers, and four poses of Light infantry.
They are very well sculpted, it´s a pity that they don´t wear swords. The four poses, are very static too, but at least, this kind of unit used rigid formations (not as the light infantry), but they are very standard, and with small personality. Other problem is the height; they were supposed to be the tallest men of the army, but with 1,66 mts, and in comparison with the rest of figure references they are very, very small.
The Unit
So I decided to make a firing unit in a very rigid composition.
I hope to have a good time seeing them¡
Good to see you back! I’m not a fan of House of Campaign. Too many silly poses. But you have raised them several levels! Love the watercolour, too. I’m a sucker for seascapes and watercolours and that is so relaxing to look at.
ReplyDeleteThank you very much for your kind word, Jeffers. Yes this set it´s strange, good sculpting but very small number of poses. It´s no easy to make Granadiers transforming other set…
DeleteGlad to see your army growing¡
Yes, open spaces give us the peace…that many time we lost painting miniatures¡¡ jajaja¡
Absolutely superb work on these. The look and way they are positioned on the base is so reminiscent of the 'loose file' style that we read about in the Americas.
ReplyDeleteThank you very much, but I didn’t do anything special, I only displayed the four poses that the set give us¡
ReplyDeleteDear Antonio,
ReplyDeleteI'm Thorsten from Germany, 44 years old, I collect scale 1/72 toy soldiers for almost 38 years now.
But just 2 years ago I restartet this as an intensive hobby and decided to do something with the French-Indian-War or the AWI or something between the timetables about 1753 to 1780 in the east of Northern America.
Something like "The Last Mohawk", because the uniforms of this time, the history of the natives and so many more things like fortifications ( Fort William Henry for example ) and so on fascinates me.
Maybe you will have a look of the products of Zvezda Company
( Great Northern War and Seven Years War ).
You can find them on www.plasticsoldierreview.com if you'll have a look to the periods.
Also very interesting is the range of HAT sets of the Seven Years War, espacially the Austrian Grenadiers, the Saxxon Infantry and many more sets.
I have so much more ideas for using different sets by scrolling and searching through out the periods between 1700 and 1815.
For example: there are 3 sets from RedBox Company of the Battle of Coludden in 1745. They are brilliant to do early Scots Regiments.
Maybe we can change some more ideas.
All the best greetings from Germany.
Thorsten
Dear Thorsten, thank you very much for showing so much interest in the blog and for sharing your ideas with me.
ReplyDeleteFirst of all, I have to say thatI´m not an specialist in this period; more o least like you, the history of this revolution, the variety of uniforms ( regulars, militias, civilians in arms, Indians..) aroused my curiosity,and I begun to paint (as you after a big period of time, in which I was only observing the news of this miniature world.
Of course, I know all the references you comments, every day I see Plastic Soldiers Reviews pages…I think I can recognize every figure I could see¡
Yes you are right, the GNW range of Zvevda, the SYW of Revell, and scots of Redbox are very good figures…I don´t like a lot hat references, but the Austrians looks very promising..
As I said I´m not a puritan in this world, but there are a some differences between the figures for the SYW and the AWI, In the SYW hats, and tails and cuffs are more prominent…
Otherwise, inside the same period, differences in height width, bulk...are sometimes very important..
So, it´s not impossible to combine them, it depends of your sensibility…
Thank you very much Thorsten, I´m sure we can exchange a lot of ideas¡
(the problem it´s that ideas are very quick but to realize them is very slow¡¡)
Antonio.