Armand, Vicomte de Belzunce, on a cold foggy morning somewhere in Germany, looking for his regiment/brigade while thinking about how hard he is going to beat his manservant for being late with the hot coffee. 

I did an army commander

Come meet Johann Matthias von der Schulenburg.

He is my favourite "looser"! He might not have been one of the great "Captains of his age"
It's kinda hard to be when your contemporaries are Eugene of Savoy, Duke of Marlborough and Duke of Berwick.


But he was a lot better this his failures against the Swedes. While he lost battles like Fraustadt, he did do a good job, he knew his business, and did surprise the Swedes earlier by his aggressive tactics. He also served in the Low countries from 1708 and fought well under Eugene at Malplaquet.


The figure is actually the new Shermetev figure from Warfare's GNW range, but give him a red coat and you have Schulenburg.

On his left, he has a trooper and cornet from the Saxon Chevaliergarde, I thought it appropriate he had some bodyguards from that regiment.
This involved creating a "feather rim" on the tricorne of the trooper, way too big because I can't model if my life depended on it. The Chevaliergarde are also warfare figures.

While we are on the topic of can't model, same goes for that well, apparently making a good looking well is "well" above my pay grade.

At least the cannonballs I made look roundish.

Schulenburg will lead my Saxons, but also lead my not very historic Dano-Russo-Saxon coalition army.

WSS stuff

 Photoshoot time, So finished my 8th Horse, tho I have not found any one doing their standard.

Then I did a little photoshoot with the WSS stuff I had.

 I tried to do the flag under the trumpet the same style standard, but my freehand sucks.

 So far the Allies are kinda outguned, 1 British foot regiment, one British cav squadron and one austrian cav squadron, vs 3 french infantry regiments, and one and a half french squadrons.

5th part 2

 So did another base, looks good, but some of the faces turned out bad, so don't look that great upclose.
Also did two riflemen, well one, started on who, but the foundry yellow sucks as much as any other yellow, the yellow shade did not cover black at allo, I had hoped that foundry yellow was better, but no, and the two lighter shades did not really do much, so the figure is lost. But I did do a purple one. I only have one proper purple. So I had to mix black and purple for the shade, and white and purple for the highlight. Looks ok, but again the face turned out shit.

On a sad, not my horse tone grey color has vanished, looked for it all day, thats my darkest shade when I paint while unifom, so until I find it, or get another one(sevral weeks) I can't do any more figures with lots of white(like british ect.)