ECW: Red Regiment

[Rough Rider]

I have returned to my English Civil War project: painting my way through two battalia boxes. The last of the infantry regiments, this one with red coats.

More pictures on my blog.

[Battle Brush Sigur]

Very nice (and great photos too!). Pike formations in 28mm do kinda look nice…

[invisible officer]

Lovely setting for a nice unit.

[Charge The Guns]

Beautiful looking regiment, RR! They look very fine in their red coats. As BBS says, a nice unit of pike and shot surely does warm the cockles of your heart 🙂 .

[Rough Rider]

Thank you boys!

[Gregreames]

Nice!!

Do you guys tend to favour painting the britches the same colour as the jackets? I’m not sure if I’m right doing some matching and using an assortment of browns/greys for some too!

[Rough Rider]

I paint the trousers a variety of greys and browns. The odd time I paint pants red and officers get matching coats and pants to mark out how fancy they are ;).

As an aside, I have been looking at some contemporary (sort of- early 17th C) Dutch military paintings and one thing that has struck me is lack of uniforms.

[Gregreames]

Ah cool. Out of interest. How did you rank your pikemen?

Part of me is tempted to use two of my infantry boxes and have 12 charging/charged pikes in one unit (3 ranks deep) with the command stand at the back and use the 12 upright pikes in a second unit with the command stand in the front and have the unarmoured bodies as more of a trained bands unit.

[Rough Rider]

The red regiment is three ranks of 5 but my other regiments have their pike in 4 ranks of 4.
Here is Tiller’s (green coats) finished in 2014:

Rupert’s Foot, also from 2014:

A pike block from a generic ‘grey’ regiment from 2015 (for some reason I don’t have a regiment picture with the shotte):

[Corso]

Great regiments!!

More please!

[Charge The Guns]

I especially like the variety, as well as the masterful brush work, in that grey regiment. Great stuff!

[invisible officer]

More nice foot.

More, we want more 😉

[Rough Rider]

I am *this close* to finishing the last unit (a cavalry squadron) from the second Battalia box set so a mile stone will be reached. Once that is done I will set them all up on the parade ground for some photos.

[Rough Rider]

And it’s done! A regiment of Royalist cavalry:

That means that I have two completely painted Battalia Box Sets done now:

More pictures on my blog.

[invisible officer]

G R E A T in big capitol letters.

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