ALL the units for the Siege of Girona 1684: so far and future!

 Hi guys!

While I am finishing a unit for my 30 Years War French army, I wanted to show to you the units I have made (and the ones I have thought) for my campaign in and around Gerona/Girona in 1684. 

Apart from generic armies for late XVII c. for both sides, I wanted to paint specifically produced units or leaders for the campaign

So here is the preliminary list :

Spanish:

-Hero: Alexander Bournonville, Viceroy of Catalonia and chief of all the Spanish forces.

no miniature selected... yet.

-Hero: Carlos de Sucre, Governor of Gerona

-Hero: General de Artilleria Juan Domingo Pignatelli, commander of the garrison of the city.

-Unit: Tercio de Gerona 

Work in progress...

-Unit: Militia and gun

-Unit: "Paisanos" or civilian mob

NOT PAINTED YET

-Unit: Migueletes

-Unit: night fighters:

NOT  PAINTED YET

-Unit: company of priests:

NOT  PAINTED YET

-Powder cart... if hit, Kaboom!

French:

-Hero: Field Marshall Bellefonds, commander of the army of Rousillon

-Hero: Captain Jacques Sauvage (fictional), leader of enfants perdús

-Hero: French commander of siege artillery

-Unit: Petard Assault team

-Unit: Enfants Perdús, armored and grenadiers

-Unit: Regiment Konigsmarck (ex Furstemberg, elite German infantry in French service)

NOT  PAINTED YET

-Unit: converged grenadiers

-Ammunition storage: 

Work in progress

-Several other foot and horse regiments I already have painted in the past.

Generic:

-Siege workers

NOT  PAINTED YET

-siege position

-Terrain (generic)

Tercio Creativo miniatures showcase and review : French "30 Years War" fantasy miniatures.

 Hello guys,

A quick update on my XVII c. warbands.  This time I painted a couple of excellent "Tercio Creativo" sculpts, from his "Gallic usurpers" faction, aka French, with a slight fantasy look, but historical enough for me. My only complain is their scale, 32mm heroic scale, so a little bit bigger than my other miniatures from other manufacturers like Anno Domini 1666 (28mm small), Bloody Miniatures (28mm standard) or Bicorne (28mm mid to big).

The first one is a cuirassier with a curious helmet but historical as I could see in military museum of Paris, Les Invalides, some examples of these kind of helmets are in my previous post.

This cuirassier is over armoured, by mid XVII no cuirassier would be dressed with that amount of metal plates, but the miniature is nice, and his weapon is quite interesting, an Axe-pistol:

The painting was quite simple, just a dark metal colour, washed, drybrushed and with some simple edge highlight, it was fast, I did not want to spend hours with that dark armour, and I matt varnished it. The cloak is foundry blue, I am quite happy with its result as it looks smoothly painted and clean.

The other miniature is a conversion of a Tercio Creativo guard with French halberd. I cut his head, which was also a cuirassier head with a sunrise expression , and glued a metal head with a XVII c. cabasset in French or Dutch style , nicely done by Reiver Castings miniatures (Thanks to Rob Anderson who kindly donated a bunch of these).

I like the  Fleur de Lis on his chest cuirass that identify him as French. I painted his trousers in the same blue tone of the dismounted cuirassier's cloak, in order to give some cohesion to the warband.

With these two miniatures, I have a total of 3 Tercio Creativo French, and I plan to build a modified Mordheim warband or just play Donnybrook or Encamisada.

The third mini was painted a year ago or so, and is the leader of my French enfant perdús, from my Siege of Girona 1684.

I will add more miniatures from this brand, like a flag bearer, a sniper, a duelist... And from other brands maybe some common troops  maybe from Bloody Miniatures and Anno Domini 1666. The only problem with Anno Domini 1666 is that its miniatures are more realistically proportioned, and are more slim and less bulky, but otherwise fantastic sculpts like its King's Musketeers and Cardinal's Guard! 

Here you can see some unpainted examples

from left to right: Tercio Creativo, Bloody Miniaturd, Bloody Miniatures and Anno Domini 1666.

All these are Tercio Creativo miniatures, some of them very useful for XVIIc games.

conversion on the right

Visit to Musée de l'Armée, Paris. Lots of XVII c. stuff

 

Hello guys,

I spent the first week of January 2023, revisiting Paris, and  I miraculously convinced my girlfriend to go to the military museum with me! She patiently paid attention to all my tedious explanations for almost 3 hours.

The collection is HUGE, I was very interested on WWI and WWII stuff, but in this blog, I will show to you some items related to XVII c. warfare.

The first pics are the tombs of both Turenne and Vauban behind the big dome, next to Napoleon's tomb.

Spanish gun, 1638, labelled as artillery of the army of Cardinal Infante, Don Fernando de Austria, brother of King, Philip IV of Spain.

coat of arms of Cardinal Infante

Spanish royal arms

French guns

Very interesting gun from Marine Royale, the brand new navy of France, heavily reinforced by Cardinal Richelieu

Now some nice mid to late XVII c. siege armor

Cuirassier armor from early and mid XVII C.

 several nations:

Armor of Louis XIV

Armour and horse dress of Condé ?

Heavy Pikeman and Buffcoats

This pistol-axe is quite interesting because I have a 28mm  model of French dismounted cuirassier wielding one, so I could not resist to post here!

Late XVII c. French cavalry flag, I thought they were bigger!

Flag of an Irish regiment in French service !

late XVIIc. French drum

Duke D'Enghien in 1646 after taking Dunkirk

Battle of Senneffe 1674

Turenne