Some SYW Hessians

[RMD]

Cheers fellas! Ah, 'tis nonsense! Still got loads to get. I'm only half-way there for Minden and a third-way there for Vellinghausen.

[RMD]

Oh and I've got 10,000+ Napoleonics, but only just hit 5,000 SYW figures with the last unit of Swiss.

[Peeler]

Very nice too

[World2dave]

Really nice!

[RogerB]

I could look at your collection all day!

[RMD]

Thanks again, chaps!

[Spanner]

Very nice, mate. I'm with you with respect to the infantry flags. The design is right and, even if we can't be 100% sure of which colour Regimentsfahnen were used with which regiment, the tradition was that they matched the facings (with white facings using another colour). I'm unlikely to get to the Hessians so I'll drool on the photos of yours.

I'd dismissed Clostercamp as a game, thinking it was too unbalanced. I'll have to reconsider that- if I can woo the locals away from pegasi, wizards, giants and similar.

PS Fred the Hessian wasn't exactly flush with cash, either, so new flags were probably on his "Some Day I'll..." list.

[BaronVonWreckedoften]

Probably why he decided to go with barber's pole artillery pieces.

[Panzer21]

Probably why he decided to go with barber's pole artillery pieces.

They are actually based on a contemporary painting.......

http://crogges7ywarmies.blogspot.com/se ... 0Artillery

I used them for one of my Imagi-Nation armies and some wag said at least they could sell them to the circus afterwards....
So, I incorporated this into the background and they are now the Zirkus Artillerie of Wilhelm von Pfiffig........
Bugger to paint though.....

Neil

[BaronVonWreckedoften]

Just read the article and subsequent comments. The "white" would almost certainly be white lead oxide which was the same colour used on British guns/limbers/etc during this period (and often wrongly depicted as blue-grey by wargamers!); thus off-white/slightly grey would be credible. I had a felling that I have seen a post-Trenton portrait of Washington that has a Hesse-Cassel gun carriage in the shot, which is in the livery of the pre-1770 period, but always figured that it was an artist's research error, and the AWI guns were on Prussian-style medium blue carriages. I guess we'll never know for sure!