Wars of Louis Quatorze

Dear fellow miniaturists and wargamers, the first seven codes of our French infantry range of 28mm miniatures for the Thirty Years War are n...

 An in depth visual study of the Swedish forces of the Great Northern war. Great resource for Carolean uniforms. Here

Images here

webpage here for an excellent site on the uniforms of the Italian forces of Piedmont-Sardaigne

go here for 1760 images of the Spanish army

                                                DEL EJERCITO NAPOLITANO                                        DE       CARLOS  VII (CARLO...

There is some debate as to whether this was actually worn - read the argument here This cap was worn by a grenadier officer of the ...

More historical studies by this artist here .

Staying on the Scottish theme this was a drawing I did for some reenactment buddies who were doing the Athol Brigade -  thought you mi...

Depicting fusilier and grenadier of 1710. Sent in by Uwe of the History in 1/72 blog . He recommends anyone interested in researching this ...

Back when any decent form of reference work, in English, was very difficult to find for budding modeler's and wargamer's, René Nort...

These two plates are again taken from the reconstructions by F. Smits published in "Armamentaria". These two illustrations are of ...

Inspired by my recent discovery of the Susane/Philipoteaux plate, and by the fact that I was already working on them, I decided to complete...

In response to a question from our friend "Motorway" from the "Anno Domini 1672" blog, I felt his question deserved more...

Many, if not most, regular readers will be aware of Susane's "Histoire de L'Ancienne Regimé" as a source to the history of...

Amazing what a couple hours of sleep and a little more digging can accomplish! In case you can't tell, I love a good puzzle. On a guess,...

For our friend "Motorway" over on the "Anno Domini 1672" blog (and because it will be a great unit to paint for my figu...

A bit more on the Standards and Colours of the Lord High Admiral's Maritime Regiment. I should have "dug" a little deeper int...

In the interest of maintaining the integrity of the material posted on this blog, and of providing its readers with the most accurate inform...

Well, I'm satisfied with my research on the "Maritime Regiment". Thanks to Dan Schorr's help and some additional research ...