Will's War of Spanish Succession

[Fire at Will]

I normally glue flags onto florists wire so instead I use some thicker wire coated with a thin coat of vaseline to prevent sticking, then slip it off once set and onto the normal flagpole.

[Fire at Will]

The last of the French, for now. A couple more units and I have varied the shade of grey again. Du Roi in front and Crussol behind.


and reversed, the morning sun was very bright


The next WSS infantry will be British, but I will still be adding some more French later

[Peter]

Grey combined with another color is something I really like. It gives these uniforms something special! Great work again Will!

[MABO]

Wow, and you must have big collection of boxes for all your units. And you are a quick painter as well. Good looking army.

[Rich W]

That army is growing at rapid speed! Good work again!

[Fire at Will]

Completed my first British units for the War of Spanish Succession, there does seem to be a lot of contradictory views about the exact uniforms, flags, etc. so it does allow a degree of flexibility in how to depict the units.


At the front Webb's or the Queen's regiment, behind is Marlborough's or the 1st Guards regiment

[Peter]

Great work again Will! Not my period of figures but I like it how others paint them!

[Minuteman]

These look very good Will. Nicely painted and the flags are, once again, very effective. The large (2 metre square) infantry flags of the period are a definite plus for wargames units. I note the use of one of the officer figures from the French Pikemen set for the standard bearer of Webbs, and this works very well; just a shame that there are not more of this pose in the box!

As you observe, there are enough different poses in the three Strelets British infantry sets to create good-looking units advancing/marching, or in firing line mode....as indeed you have demonstrated here.

[Rich W]

Good work again Will, coming along very nicely! I keep meaning to ask, how do you get your ground effects, as I always think they look effective?

[Fire at Will]

Good work again Will, coming along very nicely! I keep meaning to ask, how do you get your ground effects, as I always think they look effective?

Rich, I wrote up my current approach to basing on my blog
https://willwarweb.blogspot.com/2008/11/basing-my-approach.html

Quite surprised that I've been using it for so long now, but I still have a long way to go to rebase all my painted figures, about 10,000 out of 32.354, so at my current rate that will take 10 years to complete

[Minuteman]

Rich, I wrote up my current approach to basing on my blog
https://willwarweb.blogspot.com/2008/11/basing-my-approach.html

Quite surprised that I've been using it for so long now, but I still have a long way to go to rebase all my painted figures, about 10,000 out of 32.354, so at my current rate that will take 10 years to complete

10,000....That's a lot or rebasing Will: A tanker full PVA and a truck of kitty litter is on its way....!!

I am also impressed that you keep track of the exact number of figures you have and that you have completed. It's a project manager's approach. This must be driven by a spreadsheet surely?

Keep up the good work! In the face of so much excellent British WoSS painted soldiery from yourself and from Rich, I am now trying my hand at some Dutch infantry (using Zvezda GNW Russians) and will post as soon as I have enough painted...although I fear my production rate is no-where near yours !

[Fire at Will]

and two more units have joined my forces Churchill's (the Buffs, 3rd Foot)) and Seymour's (24th Foot) and appear in the front rank




The flags came from the warflag site
http://www.warflag.com

[Fire at Will]

Two more regiments join my British forces for the War of Spanish Succession. Orkney's regiment to the left and Ingoldsby's to the right.


It's nice to add some diversity to the army, despite having the very common blue cuffs, they are from the Sottish and Irish establishments so they have appropriate flags for their origins.

[Bill Slavin]

Your armies for this period are growing rapidly! Nice additions.

[Minuteman]

More fine and well-painted British infantry. These pictures demonstrate how good the massed Strelets WoSS figures look, and are surely an advert for this period, which has so much to offer in 1/72 scale.

If only I were able to complete units as quickly as you do Will. At this rate you will soon have completed ALL the British infantry units that fought for Marlborough in the northern European theatre of war...you have done about half of them already! Great work

[Rich W]

Good stuff again! I envy your productivity!

[MABO]

Good stuff again! I envy your productivity!

Me too

[Fire at Will]

in a final push yesterday I managed to complete all the four remaining British Infantry regiments.


The four units are left to right and front to back: Ferguson's; Lord North & Grey's; Ingoldsby's Fusilers; Rowe's Fusiliers


Luckily there were two units of Fusiliers under Marlborough's command so I could use up all the excess Fusiliers in the Strelets packs


The flags on the front pair of units were provided by David from the Not by Appointment blog (link below)
https://nba-sywtemplates.blogspot.com/

[Peter]

Excellent work again Will!

How is the situation with your can of red paint?

[Fire at Will]

Excellent work again Will!

How is the situation with your can of red paint?

getting low, but enough for the cavalry (I hope) Then down to the model shop to get another pot of Humbrol 60 or one of their new more expensive dropper bottles.