Faithful followers may immediately recognize these units from my Danish brigade, but with a quick flag swap (and shuffling the bases around to disguise the repetition from earlier photos), I now have the Earl of Monmouth's regiment ready to fight for King William III (first pic) and Clanrickarde's regiment ready to defend Old Bridge for King James II (second pic)!
Again, these units could stand in for many English and Irish units and would serve for many French regiments as well! Fun stuff - I have a second unit of the Dutch Blue Guard and more artillery on the painting table and hope to have them finished by next weekend...
Aren't you a bit worried the lead fellows might get a bit confused and have that impair their fighting performance?
ReplyDeleteI suck at rolling anyway... they can't do much worse!
DeleteA good idea is put the flags on some thin plastic straws or tubing that means you can swap the flags about as much as you want :D
ReplyDeleteI'm actually very careful when I make the flags not to get glue on the section that will go on the staff which creates a kind of straw on it's own. I always assemble my banners on a spare staff rather than the finished model and remove the staff as soon as I've shaped the flags. I'm working on an article for getting the most out of paper flags, but I haven't had time to take the step-by-step photos...
DeleteA very good idea, I may give this a go too!
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