Hessians
According to the magnificent book; “An
illustrated Encyclopedia of uniforms from 1775-1783; The American Revolutionary
war”, Hessians had a tradition of military service and were frequently sent as
mercenaries. They were hired by Great Britain during the Jacobite Rebellion in
1745.
The relation between some of the German
states was very intense in the 18th Century, with the Westminster
alliance between Great Britain and Prussia in 1756, and the establishment of the Hannover dynasty in great Britain from
1714 to 190s1.
Some German states sent troops to join the
British, as the Brunswick but the bulk were troops from Hesse-Cassel. Nearly 30.000 German soldiers fought in America.
De acuerdo con el magno
libro “An illustrated Encyclopedia of uniforms from 1775-1783; The American
Revolutionary war”, Los hessians tenían una gran tradición de servicio military
y eran enviados frecuentemente cono mercenarios. Fueron contratados ya por Gran
Bretaña durante la rebelión Jacobita en 1745.
La relación entre algunos
estados alemanes y gran Bretaña fue muy intensa derante el siglo XVIII, con la
alianza de Westminster entre Gran Bretaña y Prusia en 1756 y el establecimiento
d e la dinastía de Hannover en Gran Bretaña de 1714 a 1901.
Algunos estados alemanes
enviaron tropas para unirse a los británicos, como Brunswick, pero la mayoría
provenían del estado de Hesse-Cassel. Cerca de 30.000 soldados alemanes
lucharon en América.
Structure
The Hesse-Cassel infantry regiment in 1776 was
organizated with a regimental staff and five companies. Each infantry company
had four officiers, service and 105 privates. Ihave made my unit with the same
structure as the a British regiment.
There were four types of infantry
Regiments; Musketeer, Fusilier, Granadiers and Garrison.
In the scheme from the suplement of Black
powder Rebellion, we can find what type of infantry is each unit, and their
facing and metal color, and the pompom-tufts color too.
We had two more schemes, more detailed from
the book “An illustrated Enciclopedia of uniforms from 1775-1783. The American
Revolutionary war”,
In this page we can find the images, in low
resolution, but enough for 1/72 scale of the flasgs of the main units.
Estructura
El regimiento estaba organizado en 1776 con una sección de mando y
cinco compañías, cada compañía tenía cuatro oficiales servicio y 105 soldados. Yo
he hecho mi unidad con la misma estructura que el regimiento Británico,Había cuatro tipo de
regimientos; Mosqueteros, fusileros, granaderos y de guarnición.En el esquema del
suplemento de Black Powder “Rebellion”, podemos encontrar que tipo de infantería
es cada unidad, y sus colores para solapas y
puños y color de metal, así como el color de los pompones de los
sombreros
Uniforms.
The uniform of these units has no great
differences with the British troops, as all European armies had their uniforms
inspired upon those of Prussia. So I´m going to use the Accurate-revell- Imex
reference for building my first unit.
But the main difference was the hat used
for each type of infantry unit…
Hats
Musketeer
and Garrrison units; In this image, with drawing
taken from the same book, we can observe that Musketeer and Garrison units used
the cocked hat, so we can use the same reference that we use for the British.
(Accurate-revell- Imex). The only transformation we need is to add the pom-poms
over them.
Fusilers; Wore metal caps, fronted with the regimental “metal color” ; we
cannot obtain this caps from any reference in 1/72, perhaps we can transform
the heads of the poses of grenadiers from the Austrian Revell seven, and more
directly from the poses of the Prussians grenadiers of the reference Revell
Prussian infantry (because although they
represent grenadiers caps, they are smaller than usual. And why not using the
whole figure? The Austrian are very well sculpted, being the Prussians very
thin I think; the problem it´s the height; in this image you can compeer them
to the Accurate English figures.
Granadiers; Wore metal caps as the fusiliers but taller. We can obtain these head
from some references of grenadiers;As I said the caps of the Grenadiers of the
Seven years war, Revell Prussian infantry, are very small; I prefer the reference of Italery, 6006 "Russians Grenadiers” for the Napoleonic period they are very well sculpted,
including pom-poms Using Hat seven years war prussians?
The range of seven year war from Hat ( Set
8280 7YW Prussian Infantry Marching, Set 8281 7YW Prussian Infantry Action82827YW
Prussian Infantry Command may be solve all our necessities not only to conform
the Prussians but the British and American regulars; they have poses for the
central companies, for the command stands, and all the set have a range of
interchanging hats to form all types of
troops (cocked hats plus caps for fusiliers and grenadiers…they are well
molded; so are they the solutions? For my there is a unsolvable problem; they
are too big; it´s not only for the
height, but because the width…the reference with the Infantry Command contains
figures shorter than the other two, so perhaps they are more compatible. Some people use them along with the seven year war range of Revell Also in the big side), with good results...
Musketeer unit, “Leib Regiment”
For my first hessians unit I have chosen
one easy one; one musketeer unit; “Leib Regiment”, in this way I can use the
accurate English infantry with his cocked hat, adding only the pom-poms. His
facing color is yellow, as well as his small clothes color.
His flag is very colorful, in yellow and
red.
I have used practically only one pose for
al the units, including the standard bearer, only the musician and the
official, who is greeting warmly are made using other poses
I have turned some heads and substituted
same arms for adding variety..and I have added a dog too in one of the stand for
breaking the monotony…
At first I painted then as I ´m doing with
the rest of units of this periods, but I realized that they were dark and I
repainted the main colors for getting them more vivid.
Su bandera es muy
colorida, en amarillo y rojo.
He usado una pose para
toda la unidad, incluidos los porta banderas , sólo el músico y el oficial, que
esta saludando efusivamente están hechos usando otras poses.
Les he girado algunas
cabezas y he intercambiado algunos brazos para dar más variedad
He añadido un perro en
de las bases para romper la monotonía…
Go
ahead comrades¡ this American forests don´t presage anything goog…Only God
and Burgoyne know our Destiny…
Very well done sir!
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