A Minden Bosniak Update. . .

Here's where we stand at the moment. . . Still quite a way to go with the ol' paintbrush though.

Plugging away bit by bit at the painting table. Anywhere from 30 minutes to two hours a day as time permits. The basic horse coats and uniform colors are done. Still a few manes and tales to do on some of the chestnuts, but that will be quick, and the it's on to the basic saddle cloths plus the fleshtone for the riders and highlights on the reds and blacks. If that goes quickly, who knows?

After much dithering about how I was going to paint these figures, in the end, I decided to paint them up as a squadron of, well, Bosniaks in their striking red and black uniforms. . . Although I had toyed with the idea of blue and white based on Von Natzmer Uhlans of the WAS era. Next time.

Anyway, the three illustrations below have been my point of reference so far for my version -- 'rendition'? -- of Frederick's Bosniak Corps attached to his hussars. A striking uniform I think you'll agree.
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In other tabletop news, I am thinking ahead to the next game in my fictitious campaign (started last summer) for Christmas Week. I'm vacillating between a refight of Hook's Farm, or Guilford Courthouse, a battle from the Southern campaign of the American War of Independence that has always fascinated me due the presence of German mercenaries AND some cavalry on both sides. More on this as we get a bit closer to the Christmas Festival itself.

-- Stokes

Comments

Independentwargamesgroup said…

They are lovely sculpts Stokes and I like the idea of using them as Bosniaks. Mine are painted as De Saze bodyguard to escort his bath chair. Either way they are lovely figures. I will be interested as to how you paint black which an be a problem at times.

2:29 PM

CelticCurmudgeon said…

My Dear Heinz-Ulrich, greetings!

The Bosniaks are just the right touch to add some genuine punch to your forward elements. They are heavy enough to chase away scouting elements on foot sent by your enemy and fast enough to decline combat with heavier enemy cavalry. The other piece is that they look really good and should brighten any battlefield.

May you and the royal family have a wonderful Holiday!

Gerardus Magnus
Archbishop Emeritus

7:37 AM

tidders said…

Coming along nicely

Go Stokes ! :)

8:51 AM

It's Early Days Yet. . .

M aking some early progress with Batch A of the Anhalt-Zerbst Regiment over the last several days/evenings. Nothing terribly exciting just yet, but the basic black, brown, and flesh areas are done as are the green bases, and gray undercoat. The latter two areas needed some careful retouching early in the week. Next up, the neck stocks. I might just do these in red for the enlisted men although some of my source material suggest they were black, but I always look for an excuse to shake things up a bit. Any errant splotches of red (or black) can be covered with another application of light gray before I move onto the next step. "Giddy up!" as one Cosmo Kramer might have said. -- Stokes

A Little More Brushwork. . .

A little more brushwork on the first batch of (my version of) the Anhalt-Zerbst Regiment yesterday (Saturday). Taking a different tack this time and addressing many of the details first before the white coats and other larger areas of uniform. The eagle-eyed among you will notice that I've painted the (dark) red stocks of the enlisted men. Always a difficult and frustrating item to paint, it made sense to paint from the inside out as it were and get that particular detail out of the way first rather than try to paint it in later after much other painting has been accomplished. Trying to reduce the need for later retouching of other items on the figures you understand. Hopefully, I will be able to get back to these later today after a second trip back to the Apple Store for help with a couple of new iPad issues and, following the return home, some revision of Google Slides for tomorrow's meetings with my students. -- Stokes P.S. And according t...

And We're Off!!!

Arrrgh! Gotta go back into camera settings on my iPhone to bring all of the frame into focus. Blast! Painting is underway on the 60 or so Minden Austrians, which are slated to become my version of the Anhalt-Zerbst Regiment of AWI renown. More or less indistinguishable from Austrians of the era really, right down to the red facings and turnbacks, but the eventual flags (already in my files) will set them apart. I went ahead and based-coated all of them over a couple of days lthe last week of August, using a mix of light gray and white acrylic gesso, before next applying my usual basic alkyd oil flesh tone to the faces and hands. In a day or two, I'll hit that with Army Painter Flesh Wash to tone things down a bit and bring some definition to the faces and hands. As usual, the plan is to focus on about 20 figures at a time, splitting the regiment roughly into thirds along with the color party and regimental staff. Depending on ...

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