New Army for the WSS

[jaztez]

I'd just use them as Spanish dragoons. 

[Hwiccee]

Thank you chaps. 

Hwiccee, thanks for the info. Bugger!    The uniform I'd found from the 1690s had them still wearing floppy hats. I knew that hadn't gone for tricorns, so assumed that they had taken the French style of caps. Oh well, it looks like these must be French dragoons after all! 

Looks like I'll be doing some converting, I wonder if the GNW Russian dragoons would work with a little piece of plasti-card stuck on the front?

I think in general I would go with jaztez and just use them in any case. I think it is a unit which we have no uniform info on so maybe.....

Then maybe go with some conversion if you get another unit. I used the British SYW figure because I had some spare from using them for GNW Russian horse grenadiers. They were simple to do but I think the Russian dragoons could work as well.

There is though a French unit, possibly others, the Aubinge/Lesparre/Granville regiment which is in very similar colours - should be easy to 'convert'.

[Glorfindel]

Following on from the discussion about Spanish Dragoons, I noticed a comment
in a book by CS Grant which might be helpful ("The Armies & Uniforms of
Marlborough's Wars, Vol 2").

His take on this is that the high fronted 'grenadier cap' would only have been
worn by the horse grenadiers in each Dragoon Regiment and that the remaining
dragoons would have worn either the tricorne or the French 'bag hat'.   
Apparently, one source quoted by many others (Clonard) attributes the
'grenadier cap' to all dragoons.

I'm not sure whether there are any Spanish brethren on this forum who can
offer a better insight ?   I might try and contact the chap who runs the
excellent Spanish 'Miniaturas Militares' site.

Anyway, perhaps there is at least some scope for including the French style
dragoons in your army.


Phil

[sunjester]

I'll certainly use them as is for now, but I might have a go at converting a unit of Russian dragoons to see how they look. It would be nice to have yet more variation in the Confederate army, or else I could add the converted unit to the small Spanish contingent in my French army.

[sunjester]

Every army needs a commander, so here is my Confederate general, together with some of his staff and bodyguard. More details and pictures on the blog http://grahamsgaming.blogspot.co.uk/2018/02/a-confederate-army-for-war-of-spanish_23.html




I've also added flags to my Dutch regiments, many thanks to Glorfindel for helping with the flag details.

[Techno]

Damn good stuff !!

Cheers - Phil

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

Top work

[Womble67]

Very nice indeed

Take care

Andy

[paulr]

 

Suitably wavy flags

[sunjester]

I have finally managed to get back to this project, after a prolonged gap. With the next big WSS game scheduled for mid-May I need to get the Confederate army finished (by "finished" I mean the word very loosely, more in the sense of enough done for this game).

More pictures on the blog http://grahamsgaming.blogspot.co.uk/2018/04/a-confederate-army-for-war-of-spanish.html

[paulr]

 

[Steve J]

Those are rather lovely

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

Top work there

[Techno]

Lovely stuff !

Cheers - Phil

[toxicpixie]

Cracking stuff, good luck with them "staying finished"