Hmmm? Nearly a month since my last post?? That's bad......still no painting done.....let alone blogging?
Just as the title of the post says, its another Nine Years War French unit!!
These were painted back in Feb-March of this year and very nearly made it into Curt's Challenge
I just had to paint this unit up, you don't very often get to paint units in a brown coat unless like Loki you're painting up Continental line units for the AWI.
The unit in question the Royal Italian regt is 1 of the two brown coated units from the period, in the French army, the other being Provence. The unit fought in the battles of Walcourt, Fleurs, Namur, Neerwinden, Brussels, Dixmunde and the siege's of Deysne and d'Ath.
Has it really been a month?
ReplyDeleteGreat paint job on the figures, Ray.
'fraid so Alex!!
DeleteLooking good as usual!
ReplyDeleteThanks Jonas!!
DeleteNicely done Ray. Brown coats can be a nice change from all those bright colours.
ReplyDeleteIndeed!!
DeleteYou are back!
ReplyDeleteI really enjoy watch your NYW collection grow.
Yep! And thanks, I'm glad you enjoy watching the collection grow!
DeleteThey look great Ray and your not the only one who has been slow of late.
ReplyDeleteChristopher
Slow isn't the word Chris!!
Delete15mm eye candy and a brief history lesson - what's not to like ?
ReplyDeleteIndeed!!!
DeleteHandsome fellows everyone, Sir Brush.
ReplyDeleteWhy thank you Sir!
DeleteLovely job dude.
ReplyDeleteCheers Bob!
DeleteBrown coats and red cuff trust the Italians to think that up. Nice unit with nice flags. Fran is beating you on number of posts per month.
ReplyDeleteDamn!!! I can't have that!!
DeleteLovely painting and basing, Ray! If the Italians were wearing brown in 1688, it must have been all the rage on the Continent.
ReplyDeleteCheap as well!!!
DeleteWonderful stuff Ray. I bought a copy of BtLB just last week. Seeing this isn't helping my restraint one bit...
ReplyDeleteGlad to hear it, you'll be painting the figures soon!!!
DeleteA month! A month! I am getting withdrawal symptoms. I need to see more lace shirts and floppy hat malarkey. If you can't provide a fix I might have to look elsewhere!
ReplyDeleteTell me about it!
Deletegreat to have you back and with such a colourful bunch of Froggies at that, well done. It's Dixmuide btw ;-)
ReplyDeleteCheers Sander, English and Dutch spelling ah!
DeleteWe've missed you my good man, but great to see that you still have a splendid unit or two up your sleeve.
ReplyDeleteWhy thank you Sir!
DeleteWow you slacker! Great looking unit though didn't realise the brown uniforms were such a rarity.
ReplyDeleteSlacker's my middle name! Brown was a very much unused colour throughout history.
DeleteExcellent regiment Ray!
ReplyDeleteCheers Cyrus!
DeleteGreat work there Ray! Basing is wonderful too!
ReplyDeleteThanks Rodger!
DeleteI have them in my WSS army - so slightly later period - same uniform though, just tricorn - and I chose them purely because of the brown coat as well - a welcome change to all that light grey!!
ReplyDeleteYep, the French for both periods are pretty boring compared to other countries uniforms.
DeleteVery nice.
ReplyDeleteCheers András!!
DeleteAnother great addition to your massive collection!
ReplyDeleteYep, I'll stop..............one day??
DeleteNice work mutton chops!
ReplyDeleteThanks Ratboy!
DeleteAnother fine job Ray.
ReplyDeleteThanks Anne!
DeleteBeneath the Lilly banners...lovely work Ray! :)
ReplyDeleteCheers Thanos!!!
DeleteNo painting and no blogging? Not good, not good.
ReplyDeleteI'm a bad boy!
DeleteGood looking unit, it's hard to paint at the moment so I get it
ReplyDeleteIan
Another great looking regiment Ray, nice job!
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