Cheers both! The last two Hanoverian Regiments of Horse (Leibregiment and Hammerstein) are almost finished and the Garde du Corps and Grenadiers a Cheval are underway. Then I've got the second half of the Royal-Carabiniers to do.
After that it'll probably be the three remaining Brunswick infantry regiments (Leib, Behr & Zastrow).
Just been doing some basic work on a Brunswick army for the "Under Eagles To Glory" Black Powder event at Boards & Swords in Derby this weekend.
Unfortunately, the figures (Perry, plus a few Front Rank and half-a-dozen Elite) only arrived mid-January having been ordered in November, due to items being out-of-stock and someone deciding to hold back the entire order until everything was available. The arrival coincided with a partial flood indoors due to the heavy rains over New Year; my birthday (spent ferrying the Baroness to and from hospital - see below); selling and packing up all my French and Austrian ABs; and a pre-planned trapeziotomy operation on the Baroness's right hand (her smacking hand, as it turns out). All of this meant that work did not start on the forces until early February, and whilst the event allows unpainted armies, even down to totally raw metal (there were two of those, plus some odd units in other armies at the inaugural event last June), I decided that, given the time I had, that would be disrespectful in a public scenario and went for what I figured I could complete in the time - prepping and priming the figures and a block spray of Plastic Soldier Company's "Early War Panzer Grey", which gives an appropriately dark tone. The whole looks appropriately sombre, given the fate of the real-life Duke and my tradition of crappy dice rolling outside the parish boundaries of Haslemere.
As I type this, I still need to cut out and attach flags to three of the units (6 items in all), and 8 lance pennons; and glue together a vignette* comprising a vivandiere's cart with two female attendants, a donkey, and a pair of annoyingly un-cooperative wheels that have so far resisted both super-glue and two-part epoxy adhesive.
[*Each army has to have one - chosen from a selection of 8 different items - which can be used to effect a re-roll of some failed dice throw or other.
Sadly for me, it can only be used once per game..... ]
I shall be accompanied by #1 son, logistics supremo, tech advisor/operator, and tabletop war correspondent/photographer, Patrick. So there should be some photos at the end of it all.
Kein Plan überlebt den ersten Kontakt mit den Würfeln. (No plan survives the first contact with the dice.) Baron Mannshed von Wreckedoften, First Sea Lord of the Bavarian Admiralty.
Well that's all the Hanoverian, British and Hessian Regiments of Heavy Horse finished. I saved the Hanoverian Squadrons of Garde du Corps and Grenadiers a Cheval until last.
I've also finished all the British Dragoon Guards and Dragoons, both regiments of Hessian Dragoons, one regiment of Hanoverian Dragoons and the Legion Britannique Dragoons, so my remaining Western Allied cavalry To Do list is:
British 15th Light Dragoon Regiment
Brunswick Carabinier Regiment
Hanoverian 'Dachenhausen', 'Busche' & 'Bock' Dragoon Regiments
Hanoverian 'Luckner' Hussar Regiment
Detachments of Prussian 'Ruesch' & 'Malachowski' Hussar Regiments
Prussian 'Finckenstein' & 'Holstein-Gottorp' Dragoon Regiments
The Prussian regiments are long-overdue and of course, they'll also come in handy when fighting with Fred.
