Monday, 14 September 2020

Nigel Billington's WSS Warlord 28mms

 



Thanks to Nigel for these. He says on the Wargaming the WSS facebook group

'28mm WSS: British 2nd Foot The Queen Dowager's Regiment and Danish Regiment Fynske
I bought some boxes of WSS plastics from Warlord Games recently and they are lovely figures, very easy to assemble. I cannot say for sure that this is the start of another project but I can say that I will paint up 4 British/Allied battalions and 4 French/Bavarian battalions to start off with and then take it from there – keep or sell depending on how I feel later.
But, so far, they are lovely to paint and here is (on the left) Catherine of Braganza's regiment (she was married to King Charles II) and after his death she became the Queen Dowager, an unusual position in British history. The regiment has startling sea-green facings and part of the joy of the WSS is that uniform details are very hazy at best so you can, within certain limits, do, more-or-less, what you want. Plus the flags are dazzling too!'

Saturday, 12 September 2020

Close Fire and European Order


 Interesting looking set of rules by the author of the Malplaquet Osprey. Based on the old rules 'Loose files and American scramble' which I remember being fun. Read about them here

Relief of Vienna 1683

 To coincide with today's anniversary (the relief of Vienna from the Ottomans) Khurasan have released this image of a forthcoming addition to their 15mm Late 17th Century range

Battle of Vienna wiki

Friday, 11 September 2020

Malplaquet 1709 Osprey


 Article here on the bloodiest battle of the Eighteenth century.

Khurasan Miniatures 15mm Danish Command Scanian war

 

Impressive range that keeps growing. See here. Coming soon are Sedgemoor types, King Phillip's War militia and all manner of goodies. Facebook page

Saint-Cast 1758

 


Today is the anniversary of this British defeat in the Seven Years War. Wiki

Battle of Malplaquet 1709

 

The Duke of Marlborough and Prince Eugene Entering the French EntrenchmentsLouis Laguerre
Today's anniversary is Marlborough's and Eugene's phyrric victory in France. Wiki

Battle of Maplaquet by Louis Laguerre