Friday 19 August 2022

Flags of Spanish Infantry Regiment Castilla 1728-1768

I've no idea if these will be of any interest but I did them because of a Zoom wargame I shall be playing next week. Jon Freitag is using French as proxy Spanish so I thought, "Oooh, I really must do some Spanish flags he can use!" It's the flag designer's version of "Oooh, shiny". The Spanish hardly figured in the Seven Years War but were pretty busy in the campaigns in Italy in the War of the Austrian Succession.

Kronoskaf has a good page on the regiment here: http://www.kronoskaf.com/syw/index.php?title=Castilla_Infantry

One big practical issue for me is whether or not it is worth the bother doing all the fiddly little regimental badges for the corners of the flags; at the sizes these will be used on the battlefield, they will hardly be visible even printed in relatively high definition on colour laser printers!

Anyway, here's a preliminary sample:



8 comments:

  1. Excellent! Well, you know I wil be using these beautiful flags when I get around to painting Spanish. If I maintain a WAS focus, that shoulds be very soon.

    I say, leave off the fiddly bits.

    Thank you!

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    1. Thanks, Jon. :-) Hope to see them in action with your troops soon. It would certainly make my life a lot easier leaving off those fiddly bits!

      All the best,

      David.

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  2. Ohhhh thats a nice set of flags David, I feel a couple of Spanish regiments coming on.

    Willz.

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    1. Thanks, Willz. :-) Will be good to see them in action with your troops if you do them!

      All the best,

      David.

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  3. Really lovely Spanish flag works,
    Alan Tradgardland

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    1. Thanks, Alan! :-) I'd been thinking of doing some of these for ages...

      All the best,

      David.

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  4. Yet again a lovely flag to tempt the weak and easily led! Well worth the effort on all of the fiddly bits, even if they wont nescessarily be seen when printed.

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    1. Thanks, Steve! :-) I'd been thinking about these for some time but was pushed into action by Jon Freitag's Bassignana game as he doesn't have actual Spanish troops yet. And yes, I probably will get round to the variants with the individual regimental badges.

      All the best,

      David.

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