What's on your workbench?

[Jeremy]

Lovely stuff! Yes, I've always liked your very effective treatment of fur/fleece.

I thought Jeremy said that he shaves his fur off.

You’re confusing the resident Saffer with the resident Convict bear

[FreddBloggs]

What a mistaka to maka!

[RMD]

The first Hanoverians are now under the brush, starting with the Foot Guards (who were brigaded with the British infantry). Figures by Eureka and flags by Maverick Models:

[Shahbahraz]

Waving the white flag before the battle starts?... not really the done thing, is it?

Cracking stuff.

[BaronVonWreckedoften]

Did they not wear black gaiters on campaign (thinking back to my Mollo/McGregor SYW book), or are you using that as a point of distinction?

[RMD]

Ta!

As far as I can make out, the Hanoverians stuck with white gaiters in all orders of dress, while the British went for white in full dress only, with black, grey or brown on campaign, standardising on black in 1759.

There were a surprising number of differences between the British and Hanoverian infantry uniforms. I always thought they were just British with different flags, yellow sashes, moustaches and funny accents. They wore British-cut uniforms, with the big cuffs with a deep 'V' notch and cross-belts with buckles on the front, so British figures are the closest match, but the Hanoverians lacked the British belly-box, had small pompoms on the hats, used banded muskets and the grenadiers lacked shoulder-wings. They also ditched the fancy lace-edging in 1759. Hanoverian breeches were always yellow-buff and the waistcoats usually matched the facing colour, whereas the British usually had red smallclothes, with some regiments having facing-coloured breeches.

As it happens, the Eureka British infantry wrongly have banded muskets...

[BaronVonWreckedoften]

Fair enough. To be honest, I always used Austrian infantry for Hanoverians, rather than British - mainly due to the pom-poms and moustaches, funnily enough. I have a feeling that the Brown Bess was pretty much unique in not having bands and relying on the barrel being pinned to the stock; it was felt to be easier to pull apart for deep-cleaning.

[RMD]

Fair enough. To be honest, I always used Austrian infantry for Hanoverians, rather than British - mainly due to the pom-poms and moustaches, funnily enough. I have a feeling that the Brown Bess was pretty much unique in not having bands and relying on the barrel being pinned to the stock; it was felt to be easier to pull apart for deep-cleaning.

Yes, in retrospect they probably would be more suitable, but I'd already bought the British! The Eureka Austrians also have the oakleaf sprig in the hat. As it happens, I've found that just adding a dab of paint to the sticky-up top corner of the cockade looks perfectly ok for the tiny Hanoverian pompom (see above).

Funnily enough, on a semi-related note, my sister (champion cadet shooter in her day, now Welsh Commonwealth Games shooter and runs the RAF shooting clubhouse at Bisley AND the Charterhouse CCF shooting team) had not just one, but TWO L81 7.62mm target rifles blow up in her face, due to armourers not doing the deep-clean and corrosion check underneath the barrel (moisture can accumulate between the barrel and the wood and cause corrosion where it can't be seen).

Back to the point... I presume the Eureka sculptor was looking at pics of Hanoverian infantry when he sculpted them with barrel-bands... And then saw a picture of British infantry with belly-boxes...

[Shahbahraz]

More dead and somewhat shocked people.



And the dockyard gets the first assembled Hunt Class Destroyer - I kept the dodgy one for myself so the Milliput came out.

[levied troop]

Those are looking rather nice - dead people and Orc destroyers both.