Still quite a way to go, but the figures are beginning to look like something. Not sure what, exactly, but something.
Managed to squeeze in some painting on the evenings of July 3rd and July 5th. The 4th was taken up with family stuff in celebration of Independence Day here in The United States. The photograph above illustrates where things stand currently.
Moving forward it seems most prudent to block in the very narrow black and white (gray with a tiny white highlight) neck stocks first before slapping on the basic dark blue coat color.
Eventual breeches will be white (gray with white highlight) for the Hausgrenadiers of Wurttemburg on the left and blue (dark blue with medium blue highlight) for the Hessenstein Regitment on the right, with the various command figures shown split between the two. Waistcoats white and yellow when I get to that point.
I might paint the drummer for the Hessenstein Regt., at right, in the older fashion of reverse colors, that is a yellow coat with dark blue facings, which makes more sense since I'm basing them on Mr. Knoetel's illustration showing a grenadier in 1749. As a reminder, I've included it below. Not yet sure in which uniform I'll paint the mounted officer though.
-- Stokes
The illustration on which I'm basing the right half of my present composite battalion of grenadiers above.
For good measure, I've also (re-) included a couple of illustrations from Kronoskaf -- Project Seven Years War -- showing Wurttemburg's Hausgrenadiere Battalion. This first one is from about 1763 I believe. The site has proven to be an invaluable resource for less commonly known uniforms, flags, standards, and guidons that simply are not presented in many books on the subject(s).
And the second illustration is the one I'm using as a guide for the left half of my composite grneadier battalion above. The green facings and darker red turnbacks are particularly attractive against the dark blue coat I think.
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