Wow ! These are simply superb - lovely sense of depth and colour.

More please ! Phil

Thanks Wienand, I'd not heard of them before so I am sure you are right - either short-lived formations or a result of mis-identification. Of course, it doesn't help that the some Regiments were sometimes referred to by various different names further obscuring an already murky picture). Thanks agai...

In his book 'The Huguenot Soldiers of William of Orange', Matthew Glozier mentions the above two Dragoon Regiments (which, I assume, are named for their coat colours).

I don't suppose anyone has any further information about these two Regiments ?



Phil

Thank you - some really excellent uniform guides. I particularly like the Bavarian Leibregiment and will have to include at least a battalion of these.

Thanks again.



Phil

...I'm now looking forward to the new Osprey on Malplaquet being written by Simon MacDowall.

[urlhttps://www.amazon.co.uk/Malplaquet-1709-Marlbo ... 695&sr=8-1][/url]

Thank you for the reply. The archive diagram is very interesting indeed and I hope I can enlarge it sufficiently to read. I have also found this: https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k875527k/f56.image From 'La Bataille de Malplaquet'. Very clear but unfortunately only covers the French Infantry. T...

I'm painting up a number of French & allied Regiments which form part of the Ramillies Order of Battle and have come across a brigade comprising the above two Regiments. I've also seen reference to them brigaded together at Malplaquet. I am now trying to work out who they are as I can find no other ...

Hi Wienand, Robert Hall confirms the Colonel is Ernst Detlof but I expect this is taken from the same source you mention below ('Het Staatsche Leger'). I have also checked his work on the two Mecklenburg states but this doesn't clarify the situation either. Different spellings don't help (Krassau / ...

This is also an excellent site (just use the links on the left hand side):

http://rusmilhist.blogspot.com/]

Beautiful work as always. I particularly like the variety of hats / coats / colours that gives this unit a different character.

Well done !



Phil

I expect this is a similar question as to how soldiers themselves are dressed and, regardless of reality, how you want to portray them. Do you prefer parade dress, with uniformity of horse colour and idealised uniforms, or the grubby reality of campaign dress. From a personal point of view, if I'm g...

I have a copy of the following pdfs which provide quite a bit of information: DANISH UNIFORMS, COLOURS AND STANDARDS 1675-1679 by Olaf Hasselager and Torstein Snorrason. DANISH UNIFORMS 1699-1712 by Torstein Snorrason. If you PM me at Phil(dash)Carrington(at)virginmedia(dot)com, I would be more than...

I understand that it attempts to cover Russia, Sweden, Denmark, Saxony, Prussia, Hanover, Holstein, Poland-Lithuania, Cossacks, Ottoman Turks, Moldavians, Wallachians & Tatars. I think it was always going to be a tall order to compress anything other than the most sketchy information about the armie...

These are superb and the basing is very well done. More please ! Having painted both 28mm and 10mm figures, I must admit that I now prefer the smaller scale. Saying that, the detail on those Van Dyck figures is quite terrifying and, if anything, puts me off a little bit ! Just wondered how difficult...

You might be interested in one or two of these items on Ebay :

https://www.ebay.co.uk/sch/andyrob2/m.h ... 7675.l2562


Some quite rare items listed. No relation to the seller - I've just come across this.


Phil