De La Melonière

Here is the first of my Huguenot battalions...

There is much more info on the League of Augsburg blog as it stars in our FEATURED REGIMENT series. I am only two battalions and two squadrons away from finishing my goal for my Williamite 1690 army!

Join the League of Augsburg

The LoA blog is off to a great start and we have lots of great articles coming up, but in the spirit of alliance that was the League of Augsburg, we would like to invite you to participate! We are now accepting submissions for guest authors to add articles of their own. This could be a snippet of history, an article on painting or collecting models, building terrain, a scenario or after action report, a FEATURED REGIMENT, info on uniforms, flags, or equipment, or simply some nice photos of models or units.

Unfortunately as this is mainly a labor of love on our part, we can't provide compensation other than the promotion of your personal blogs or other projects you may be involved in.

This is awesome! How do I get involved?

Send a brief outline of your submission to loasubmissions@gmail.com to make sure we don't already have a similar article on the schedule (the same subject of a Featured Regiment for example). I just don't want someone putting lots of effort into a project only to find out we can't use it. If you have an epic idea along the lines of one of Barry's series, we can publish the piece in installments. Don't panic if you don't hear back right away... I will try to check the email account every day, but I might not always be able to respond the same day.

I'd like to submit an article, but I don't have photos.

No problem... We probably do. We borrow from each other already and we can most likely find something to go with your idea, create maps, etc. Just mention that when you send your outline.

Do I have to use BLB, Donnybrook, or Warfare Miniatures?

Not at all. Obviously Beneath the Lily Banners and Donnybrook are our chosen rules, but if you run games with Black Powder, 1644, or something else it's fine to include references to them. Likewise we have an interest in promoting Warfare Miniatures, but our own collections and articles feature models from other manufacturers. The only restriction on submissions is that the period fall within the late 17th/early 18th century... If you have any doubts we will sort them out in the outline process.

Once the outline is approved, will I have a deadline?

No. We don't work to deadlines and neither do you. Assuming we approve the outline, I will make a note of the submission, but your article will not be scheduled for the rotation until it's finished... No pressure from this end.

I'm not a great writer.

Yeah, neither am I. Submit a photo spread and we'll work out the text to go with it. Articles may be subject to editing as well, though anything major will be discussed with the author first. 

So that's it! If you simply want to submit a one off article or a more ambitious series of posts, your efforts will be welcome. We want the LoA blog to grow into a resource for the period, both for history and wargaming, and having the help of the community will go a long way toward achieving that goal (and won't have to just listen to us spout off all the time).

Thanks!

Huguenot Regiment

Still expanding my Williamite army, here is a WIP of the first unit of my Huguenot Brigade...

After some fairly extensive research I have been unable to find out much about the uniforms of the Huguenots other than the fact that they wore grey (gris-mêle). The fact that they were in the middle of so much of the fighting in Ireland and there seems to be no record of facing color might indicate that the facings were simply grey as well. There is a painting by van Wyck that seems to show a unit of grey clad troops with blue facings so I will probably paint one of my Huguenot regiments that way.

In any case, this regiment is destined to be de la Meloniere's I think.

I also took this pic with my iphone 4S using the 645 PRO Mk II app and am impressed with the results. There was absolutely no post editing done on the photo. While it won't replace my normal camera for serious work, it works great on quick shots for web posting!

The Duke of Wurttemberg

Don't know if you've been following along over at the LoA blog, but I wanted to post pics here of the latest addition to my Williamite army here as well. The good Duke will lead my Danish brigade in games of Beneath the Lily Banners.

You can find step by step directions on how I painted this gentleman over on the LoA blog...

Things have been quite here, but I have had my hands full with organizing the other blog, adding new flags to the Quindia Studios range, writing and layouts for Donnybrook, and a few other side projects here and there (some of which will be featured here soon).

The League of Augsburg

I want to announce a new blog that I am participating in... The League of Augsburg. Barry Hilton has kindly allowed me to use the name for this new effort which will be a joint project between myself, Barry Hilton, Dave O'Brien, Bob Talbot, Bob Miller, Adrian Howe, and Clibinarium. We will focus this blog on all aspects of the period covered by Beneath the Lily Banners and Donnybrook with articles on history, painting, wargaming, and news on all of our commercial projects. Besides providing articles, I designed the site (edited a template really) and will be editing the articles (a bit like herding cats).

I will still be continuing to post here, but my BLB projects will often be featured on both blogs to some degree. Stop by and join the site. If you'd like to participate, we will also be accepting articles from guests after we get rolling (keep an eye for the announcement there).

Donnybrook Cover Art

Thanks for your patience! Here is the full cover art...

As with all of my work, the painting is digital, done mostly in Adobe Photoshop, but it started the old fashioned way - with a pencil drawing!

There were lots of small changes along the way, but the end result was basically faithful to my original design and I'm happy with the way this piece turned out.

More on Donnybrook soon!

Donnybrook Puzzle 11

Donnybrook Puzzle 10