Napoleonic, WSS & ECW wargaming, with a load of old Hooptedoodle on this & that


Monday 29 March 2021

WSS: More British Foot Completed

 After a day's delay, occasioned by my deciding I really had to produce my own version of the flag for North & Grey's Regiment, the three new units are now ready for war. This is all Blenheim period...

 
On what looks rather like Joe Morschauser's breakfast table, here is the regiment of Baron North & Grey (surely one of the sillier titles?), also known as the Earl of Bath's Regt. I refuse to discuss these chaps in terms of regimental numbers which weren't thought of for another 50 years (although it seems everyone does...). The flags were quite a lot of work, but worth it.

 
This is the Duke of Marlborough's Regt (aka Edward Dering's)

 
And this is Scrope Howe's Regt (aka Sir Wm Clifton's). Scrope Howe not one of the great names, either, really

Since it seemed a pity to miss out on the opportunity, I fetched Ferguson's Regt out of the Really Useful Boxes, and lined up a group photo of what could be my first British brigade - if they only had a general...


It's OK - all in the pipeline. I'm waiting for cavalry figures and guns to arrive in the mail, and I have the next couple of battalions ready to go on the bottletops. Coming along nicely.


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I've been using flags from Warflag and the War Office for my WSS armies, though I had to put in some original effort for my Imperial troops. For the French, my intention is to use Warflag, and I'll maybe dust off my blog note on texturing using Photoshop. There are also some lovely flags on the Not By Appointment blog, of course, (though they tend to be more towards the SYW) and I always keep an eye on Ray's smashing work on Don't Throw a 1 (though his are usually a bit earlier than the WSS).

Since I couldn't find flags for North & Grey's regiment with high enough resolution in a decent size, I had a go myself. If you're not offended by the stock clip-art "Sun in His Splendour", I thought they might be useful for anyone else who, like me, couldn't get hold of the appropriate Robert Hall sheet(!).


I might texture them, in fact, if I get into texturing the French ones, but for the moment I'm pleased enough with this - at 20mm scale, the textured flags sometimes look as though someone dropped them in the dirt!

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28 comments:

  1. Excellent stuff, very handsome. The redcoat force is coming along nicely, as you say. Well done!

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    1. The lack of cavalry is getting a bit pressing, but that should be sorted out in a few weeks. They're certainly bright, aren't they?

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    2. Yes, cavalry necessary to add tone to a vulgar brawl as they say. But certainly bright - they're not going to hide in the undergrowth.

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    1. Thanks Ray - and thanks especially for the flag library - a charitable act indeed!

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  3. Your Brits seem to be coming along quickly. Good to see the future Yellowbellies making an appearance (even if that appellation is even further in the future than regimental numbering, or maybe not).

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    1. I was having a quick look to try to get a date on that - failed so far! Seems to refer to the yellow waistcoats they wore under the uniform (mine have blue, I think!).

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    2. Sometime last year I found a couple of sites dedicated to this regiment’s successor when ‘researching’ for my AWI project. Mainly re-enactors, good stuff but dedicated to the AWI.

      The whole Yellowbelly thing is shrouded in confusion - there’s a debate among Lincolnshire folk as to the origin of the nickname. I always assumed it was because of the turn backs, lapels and colours of the 10th Foot, (Northern Grey Bathrooms?), but there are various competing claims to do with agriculture. Something was meant to have stained the farm workers front, sort of a reverse redneck. I’m not even sure this regiment had that nickname, in the 18th century - it possibly came about AFTER it got the county name.

      None of this helps or even matters of course.

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  4. Very good work, Tony! "Joe Morschauser's breakfast table" is a good one. My grandmother had the exact same tablecloth.

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    1. Thanks Jon - your grandmother and I are probably of the same generation. This particular tablecloth has an odd history - we decided a few years ago that we didn't like it too much, so bought a replacement. For some reason, this all slipped under the radar, and I guess the new tablecloth is still in a cupboard somewhere. The existing one has sort of grown on me, I think. Must be good for another 10 years, you would think?

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  5. All looking very smart and elegant. 😁 Iain at Flags of War has a very nice range of Marlburian flags albeit in 28mm ( not certain if he would do a rescale)
    Maverick Models do a very good range printed to whatever size you want, plain or textured even on material if you wish.
    Really like these

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    1. Thanks Graham - I hadn't realised that Maverick Models will do custom sizes. I read his website last night, and I'm not quite sure what it says, but I'll read it again after coffee. Buying in printed flags would make me nervous - I wreck enough of my own when fitting them for me to be thinking about ordering duplicates, just in case. When gluing flags, my fingers all turn to thumbs, and my thumbs turn to elephants' feet.

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    2. 🤣 you pick the size closest to what you want then he emails you and asks for an exact size . - he even does self adhesive ones 🤣

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    3. Righto - thanks - I'll get the coffee on. Didn't do too badly with my 6 flags yesterday - only wrecked one. I'm currently using a plastic rod as a former - that helps a lot. The one I screwed up yesterday was because the glue was soaking just a tad too long, and then the paper distorts slightly, and the sides don't meet when you fold them back together.

      The funniest moment yesterday came early on - I cut out and folded the flags, ready, and laid them out, in the right order, the RIGHT WAY UP (yes, I've got that wrong a couple of times, too...). The first one went pretty well, so I let out my held breath in relief, and blew 3 of them off the table. Oh, what laughs I have.

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  6. Splendid stuff, very smart. Good to see 'Corporal John' has ensured they have their sturdy replacement footware on the march to the Danube.

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    1. Fine, clumpy shoes - one size fits all.

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  7. That’s a very nice brigade Tony...
    I must admit that I rather like the fact that the regiments go by the name of the colonel...

    All the best. Aly

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    1. Thanks Aly - the regiments often seem to be known by the previous colonel's name, if not the one before. It's like that pub in the village, which is known to the locals by the name it had before any of them were born. Fortescue and Lawson and all those chaps invariably refer to the WSS regiments as the 10th Foot etc, throughout, but I find the anachronism uncomfortable - though convenience may win out in the end. My Citadel scarlet paint is doing sterling service here, but it is developing strange, stringy lumps down in the depths...

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    2. Weird... I can’t say I have developed any stringy lumps before...
      Well not in my paint...
      I’ve just opened a fresh bottle.. so I will keep a look out.

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  8. You just can’t beat a brigade dressed in a proper uniform colour like these! Very nice work Tony.

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    1. Thanks Ian - these 3 units have been interesting - half the troops are bought in and retouched, half painted from scratch, and it's a challenge to get them to match!

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  9. flags , try these http://www.tinytintroops.co.uk/Flags/flags_WSS.htm

    also REVO flags did some sheers for WSS

    cheers Old John

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    1. Thanks John - the Tiny site I've seen before, but I thought their sizes were all a bit - well, tiny. I'll check them out properly. Only recently I found out that REVO stuff was made by Keith Over, the noted flag man! Never seen the WSS sheets. I hope the specimen I put in the post indicates that I am not totally useless on my own, but more arrows in the quiver is always good!

      This morning's discovery is that I seem to have 2 sizes of Higgins' MP11 - there seems to be an early version which is about 1mm shorter, and has a smaller hat - useable, but a bit of a surprise. All jolly interesting.

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  10. TINY flags i've used the 18mm ones, look ok to me but then i'm not a purist
    MP11 would like to see both variants, also check hair styles as could be a recast
    cheers Old John

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  11. My these are looking mighty bright and beautiful.
    Regards, James

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  12. Nice work! As I have just said to Will on his Wargames Blog too, I did make a start on some WSS British flags and posted them on my blog ages ago but there seemed little interest so I didn't pursue it. I did do a page of British late 17th/early 18th century infantry flags some years ago for a friend and if you'd like them I can email them to you. It seems a pity to have them languish relatively unused. Let me have an email address via the contact form on my blog (or put one disguised in your reply here if you wish) and I'll send it to you. :-)

    Cheers,

    David
    https://nba-sywtemplates.blogspot.com/

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    1. Hi David - this is an extremely kind offer, for which my sincere thanks. I have submitted a contact form from your blog...

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