Hello guys,
Finally I managed to finish another unit for late XVIIc. wars, Tercio of the Duke of Bejar or Tercio of Zuñiga.
This unit , also called Tercio del Duque de Béjar or Departmental Tercio of Brabant. It was made up of native Spaniards, and was stationed in the Netherlands until the end of the War of the Spanish Succession, so it saw a lot of combat in the period 1672-1710 aprox.
the uniform was light gray or off white with blue facings, and we know that some of his flags had the emblem of the Duke of Béjar and another one is well known, and depicted here with the unit. The flag was kindly made for me by Clarence Harrison, and he did a superb job, as you can expect from him. Sometimes a similar flag design has been mistakenly attributed to Bavarian regiment Mercy, but August Kuhn failed when he assigned the flag to that Bavarian regiment (War of Spanish Succession).
Coming back to the miniatures, they are mostly a mixture of Northstar 1672 old and new ranges, with a lot of conversion work with plastic bits of Games Workshop (Empire), Warlord Games, Avanpost, and Front Rank. Also the flag bearer is from Warfare Miniatures, and the officer is a custom sculpted miniature.
This Tercio wore a natural wool grey uniform with red facings for years, but in the later part of the century changed its design and color for grey white and blue facings, as depicted here.
The Drummer wore a red coat with blue facings and white laces, with the Duchy of Bejar's blazon in the drum.
I started this unit some years ago as an storming party, but I painted the rest of the miniatures and finished it as a full unit this january, the earlier post is in this blog with all the information here:
https://spanishleadpainting.blogspot.com/2020/12/28mm-storming-party-enfants-perdus-from.html
I hope you like it !
