Wildenstein was a 4 battalion regiment, rated as "good" by Soubise. The uniform was in the Austrian style, white with green facings and waistcoat. Grenadiers also wore an Austrian-style bearskin.
Being a uniform and flag design service to wargamers and to the imaginary crowned heads of 17th and 18th Century Europe, especially of the Seven Years War period - now By Appointment to the Court of Saxe-Bearstein! (But please note that the uniforms and flags presented here are not fictional - they are genuine 17th and 18th Century uniforms and flags that are as authentic as I can make them from my sources.)
Monday, 1 October 2007
3rd Reichsarmee Template - Musketeer of the Mainz Infantry Regiment Wildenstein (Circle of the Elector Rhine)
Wildenstein was a 4 battalion regiment, rated as "good" by Soubise. The uniform was in the Austrian style, white with green facings and waistcoat. Grenadiers also wore an Austrian-style bearskin.
Hi there David,
ReplyDeleteGood to see you're back! The latest two templates are, as always, smashing. They make me wish I had endless time and resources to design uniforms and paint up a bunch of differently clothed regiments that would do justice to your lovely work here. Do you find the time to paint figures yourself?
Best Regards,
Stokes
Hi Stokes,
ReplyDeleteThanks! :-)
Do feel free to fantasize and post your filled-in templates even if they never reach the gaming table... I'd like to see them. ;-)
No, I'm afraid I've never been very good at figure painting - somehow couldn't get the hang of it! I am planning to design and make some 2d card figures for SYW gaming though, somewhat in the style of the Junior General figures http://www.juniorgeneral.org/18thcentury.htm#seven%20years%20war but hopefully larger scale and rather more detailed - mine will be vector graphics so not so dreadfully pixellated. ;-) (The JG site has a tremendously wide collection of SYW figures; I helped with some of the information used by their creators.) I really like the largely European tradition of card and paper figures - cheap, easily portable, can be printed out without needing to be painted afterwards and made of a renewable and environmentally friendly material. I have a wonderful book called "Paper Soldiers: The Illustrated History of Printed Paper Armies of the 18th, 19th and 20th Centuries" by Edward Ryan which serves as inspiration; there are some very attractive 18th SYW figures in there.
David.
Sounds like a neat book.
ReplyDeletePlease let us know if/when you do get this project on its feet. I can envision having some of these "paper armies" as prizes to give to youngsters at our local mini-convention . . . perhaps to get them to consider historical gaming.
Indeed, my imagination is running with this . . . hmmmm . . . yes, please do keep us in touch with this.
-- Jeff
Hi Jeff,
ReplyDeleteYes, it's a wonderful book. :-)
I'll certainly let you know how the project goes. Your idea sounds a good one!
David.