Sunday 9 May 2021

Progress on Paining SYW units from the Battle of Minden 1759

  Like most of us I have more than one project underway.  This is my progress over the bank holiday and following weekend working on the British/German side of the Battle of Minden 1659.


Brunswick Behr (1 bn) & Imhoff (2 bns)



                                                           Hessian Leib Grenadier

Hanoverian Converged Grenadiers (1 bn) under Wersabe


Hessian Gilsa (1bn)  & Hessian Leibgarde zu Fuss (1 bn)


Progress so far




Not yet painted are in red

Main Army under Ferdinand of Brunswick

Seventh column under Lieutenant-General von Imhoff

Major-General von Einsiedel's BrigadeMajor-General von Behr's Brigade

Eighth column: Left Wing under Lieutenant-General the Duke of Holstein

Lieutenant-General the Duke of Holstein's BrigadeLieutenant-General von Urff's Brigade

Wangenheim Corps between the village of Kutenhausen and the Weser

Cavalry Right Wing

 Prussian Ruesch Hussars (1)

Progress on Projects over the Early May Bank Holiday

 Like most of us I have more than one project underway.  One of my current projects is painting the Bavarian Army of the War of Spanish Succession (WSS) .This is my progress over the bank holiday and following week:


Bavarian WSS

I painted, flagged and based four 2nd battalions of the Leib Regt, Mercy Regy, Kurprinz  Regt and Maffei Regt.  


This takes my Bavarians up to 8 foot battalions, from 4 regiments and 3 kuirassier regiments.