He, About the wood color of the British artillery: I tried to contact by mail the Royal Artillery Museum , and the very friendly Mr. Les Smith (Collection Manager) told me the following: "Thank you for your enquiry regarding the wood colour. I’m afraid I can’t find any definitive answer as I have he...
Hi belg, Even source material can be wrong. You need to go with what works for you and also base it on general consensus. Hence my "think" comment. I don't want to categorically state something which could be wrong. A source for Prussian dark blue regarding the 'source situation’ on Prussian artill...
Not to be picky, but I have now noticed that the period referred by the book quoted by El Cid is 1675-1679.
Are we really sure that even twentyfive years later, say at the time of the Battle of Blenheim (1704), the color of the danish gun-carriages had always been red?
Sergio, Prussians would be dark blue and Danish red I think. Many thanks, but......... :lol: Do You "think" , are you not sure? :mrgreen: Please, it would be possible to know the source of your information? :mrgreen: I do not want to repeat the mistake (if it were so) already done for the British g...
Hi Sergio, I cannot recall the source for the gun carriage colour. I went for the blue/grey based on some comments on a forum and looking at others collections. It also seemed to make sense as that was the colour used by napoleonic times. I also wanted them to be different from my Dutch and French ...
In the battle of Turin, the ..... Savoyards Dragons were used as Cavalry Also in the battle of Staffarda 1690: "a me miei dragoni" I think the Savoyard Dragoons were especially apt (or trained) to charge on horseback, which most of the armies' dragoons were not, or not ment to. Yes, of course. Howe...
A question, please:
by informations that I had, the wood of the barrel of the cannon would have been red.
I saw that instead you have painted it blue.
To what source you are referring?
He, the question is very interesting, and I also had open a new topic, not knowing that it was already open this. In the books on the War of the Spanish Succession as I have, to sum up, I found written about the Dragons that they who were initially a mounted Infantry “intended to fight on foot like ...
He, in the recent re-enactment of the Battle of Turin in 1706, the Rehenactors of the Dragoons Piedmont Group were deployed and fought in the typical "in-line" formation of the Infantry of the time. http://www.naran.it/wargames/Gallery/Torino1706/Torino2012/Dragoni-Piemonte-pic023.jpg But, according...
I plan to take some pictures to my regiments of the armies of Savoy, Austria, England and I will post here as soon as possible, as well as to put them in our website, where there are already those of the battles that we played to test our rules of wargames. I will put also those of the French regime...
We all have the same interest: finding the most exact representation of historical correct uniforms and flags - and painting our miniature armies that way. All these discussions are very inspiring (for me) for delving further into the subject, for finding more and more special sources, and revealin...
El Cid, Sergio, I think Sergio ment no disrespect but to point out that Piemont has always adopted the color red in their Flags and not the crimson :) The last entries of you two begin to sound like the foreign ministers of Imperial Austria and Royal Italy discussing the color red and its shadings ...
