Today 22nd January 2018, with what's ON MY WORKBENCH.
I was able to complete the 28 man, 28mm Huguenot Infantry Regiment in very good time this week, getting them completed by Friday morning, this allowed me to select the next unit for painting.
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| 1st Squadron, The Royal Piemont Regiment |
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| 2nd Squadron, The Royal Piemont Regiment |
This was an Anglo-Dutch Wars 28mm Cavalry Regiment - The Royal Piemont - to be precise. Not your typical French cavalry as they were uniformed in blue with red cuffs and linings with silver metal buttons. additionally as the name suggests they were drawn for men from the Italian state of Piedmont - notably from around Turin.
I'm hoping that the regiment can provide a utility role as other nationalities as required with simple flag swaps in future games. (I do not glue flags to figures these days, just so that they can be easily swapped as scenarios require...). The unit will consist of 12 mounted figures,deployed in 2 six figure squadrons and will include an officer, standard bearer and a musician in addition to the nine troopers.
Still on the workbench are the Old Glory Mexican Fusiliers and the 10mm Scots for Flodden.
So what's OFF THE WORKBENCH...
As mentioned above, I got the Huguenot Infantry Regiment completed - the figures are Front Rank 1672 figures,a mixture of french and English castings to give the regiment a hint of Frenchmen in English service and consists of four stands of four musketeers with matchlocks plus four half-stands of pikemen, totaling another eight figures - half of which are armoured in the French fashion. The command group consists of two half stands, one with ensigns carrying flags and one with musician and regimental commander.
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| Le Caillemotte Regiment |
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| Le Caillemotte Regiment |
These chaps were painted to represent a unit in generic, unbleached / dyed wool coats and by contrast their officers in the period's usual over he top finery. Standards are based upon blog site 'Don't throw a 1' prospective standards for the 'Le Caillemotte Regiment'.
