Spanish Aides de campe

[Bill Slavin]

I have been dipping back into my Spanish forces lately after playing my Somosierra game and a replay of my Barossa scenario. We have been playing around with incorporating ADC's into our Over the Hills battlefields, and I wanted to create a few dedicated figures for the Spanish, as I did for my British a while back.

The Spanish first introduced aides de campe into their forces in 1728. The Spanish generals followed the French tradition of dressing their aides de campes (also called Ayudantes Reales, or Royal Aides) up in some fairly fantastic uniforms.

These figures are all conversions from the Italeri French command set. I have posted more pics on my blog here:
https://tinywarsplayedindoors.blogspot.com/2021/06/spanish-aides-de-campe.html
but here are the three figures with their original unpainted figure beside them.

[Iceman1964]

Great conversion and great diorama !!

[C M Dodson]

Really nice conversions Bill showing some great thinking.

Your ubiquitous scenery shows them off to great effect as always.

Excellent work.

Best wishes,

Chris

[Kostis Ornerakis]

Wonderful work!

[Fire at Will]

Great ideas, I think I'll be following your lead.

[Santi Pérez]

I love your conversions and the final result, Bill.

Very well done.

Santi.

[MABO]

Massomo Costa made some Spanish officers, I think you know maybe.

https://www.black-watch-miniatures.de/spanish-infantry-commandset.html

Top notch conversion of the old classic Frenchmen.

[Minuteman]

Great conversions, painting and basing. Very effective,,,..and colourful !

[Bluefalchion]

Wonderful conversions, although the first mounted guy in green has a face that only a mother could love. Mine turn out that way sometimes, too.

[Bill Slavin]

Massomo Costa made some Spanish officers, I think you know maybe.

https://www.black-watch-miniatures.de/spanish-infantry-commandset.html

You are right, Mabo, that is a very fine command set! I think I will put it on my wish list - up until now, most of my Spanish commanders are converted French. Massomo Costa is the same sculptor who did the Hagan Portuguese, correct? Those I do have.

[Bill Slavin]

Wonderful conversions, although the first mounted guy in green has a face that only a mother could love. Mine turn out that way sometimes, too.

Too funny! Yes, now that you mention it, he is pretty ugly. The same could be said for the third...

FYI I mentioned this on my blog, but they were based on this Dighton illustration.

[MABO]

You are right, Mabo, that is a very fine command set! I think I will put it on my wish list - up until now, most of my Spanish commanders are converted French. Massomo Costa is the same sculptor who did the Hagan Portuguese, correct? Those I do have.

Yes that is correct. He made some other Peninsular sets like the first Spanish Horse Artillery.

[Andrey]

Great job Bill ! Excellent types of the Spanish Command!

[Peter]

Excellent conversions Bill!

[davide b]

Stunning! Could you please show also a closer view of the other figures in the main photo? Thanks!

[Egbert]

Wonderful implementation Bill ...
Nice ideas to convert these wonderful figures from Italeri and to use them for the Spanish general staff.

[Bill Slavin]

Thanks, all, for the kind comments.
Davide b, I don't think I have any photos of the other figures at the moment other than some of the Portuguese ox cart you can see in the background in my blog here: https://tinywarsplayedindoors.blogspot.com/2018/11/portuguese-ox-carts.html