WIP 28mm Regiment Diesbach, Black Hussar Miniatures

MarquisMini · Aug 7, 2021

Hello folks,
I am starting a new project, i want it to paint this regiment for a while and chose to do it in 28mm.
This is my second time working with Black Hussar Miniatures from Germany, fortunate for me i have the US distributor ( Triangle Miniatures) in the same State i live.
I am painting this remarkable Swiss regiment in French Service , Disbach as they woukd have appear in the Seven Years war.
The regiment wore the traditiional Red coat typical of Irish and Swiss regiments in French Service and blue vest, pants and cuffs, the crissbelts were natural leather and cartirdge pouch was tanned or red leather, white gaiters.

MarquisMini · Aug 7, 2021

I have cleaned andbprimed the figures in automotive self etching primer, undercoated the coats in white and used a mix of deep red from vallejo and a dab of Army painter pure red for the first batch.

MarquisMini · Aug 7, 2021

I've received another 6 fusiliers 2 dats ago.
This time i decided to try something different , i have so many red bottles of paint and the idea behind using a different base color on some of the toopers is to break that "cookie cutter" effect of having every coat the same, they would have had worn out different for some troopers anyways.

Nap · Aug 7, 2021

Hi Daniel

Great to see you posting and a new project as well

As always a good start ....nice idea to vary the reds ......interesting to see the difference in them

Following right with you .....sitting next to your BBQ of course

Happy benchtime

Nap

MarquisMini · Aug 9, 2021

Nap said:
Hi Daniel

Great to see you posting and a new project as well

As always a good start ....nice idea to vary the reds ......interesting to see the difference in them

Following right with you .....sitting next to your BBQ of course

Happy benchtime

Nap

Haha, thanks my friend!

Waterlooman · Aug 9, 2021

Very nice work - so much we can do in this scale - hope you are having as much fun with yours as I am.

W.

MarquisMini · Aug 9, 2021

Waterlooman said:
Very nice work - so much we can do in this scale - hope you are having as much fun with yours as I am.

W.

Thanks!, i am having a blast indeed ;-)

MarquisMini · Aug 12, 2021

Today i've received another batch of figures.
As usual, cleabed up the figure with scotchbrite pad and then let them soak in soapy water.
This batch includes standard bearers, 2 drummers , and officer and 2 french High comand.

Waterlooman · Aug 12, 2021

MarquisMini said:
Today i've received another batch of figures.
As usual, cleabed up the figure with scotchbrite pad and then let them soak in soapy water.
This batch includes standard bearers, 2 drummers , and officer and 2 french High comand.View attachment 425337 View attachment 425338 View attachment 425339 View attachment 425340

Do you spray the primer on?

W.

Nap · Aug 13, 2021

Hi Daniel

Another nice delivery to your bench , nice detailed figures as always , will you rework the arm position on the drummers for variety ?

Look forward to the standard bearers as always

Happy benchtime

Nap

MarquisMini · Aug 14, 2021

Waterlooman said:
Do you spray the primer on?

W.

Yes, i've been using Automotive self etching primer, it works amazing with these minis.
Cheers

MarquisMini · Aug 14, 2021

Nap said:
Hi Daniel

Another nice delivery to your bench , nice detailed figures as always , will you rework the arm position on the drummers for variety ?

Look forward to the standard bearers as always

Happy benchtime

Nap

Hi Kev,
I did "twist" one of the drummer's head a little to provide some sort of variation, and did the same with one of the standard bearers, but i don't want to mess with the drummer's arms since they are nicely done and have lace built on them.

MarquisMini · Aug 19, 2021

I've made some progress on the high command and one officer.
I must say that the officer standing pointing it is one if my favorite figures from BH, definitely a great pose.
I did finished and sprayed with Matt varnish.

MarquisMini · Aug 19, 2021

I am making one of the high command mounted figures as the Prince de Souvise, which was present at the Batrle of Rossbach ( 1757) and had the Rank of Leutenient -general , he was appointed Marshall in 1758 despite the defeat suffered by the Imperial/French army at Rossbach agains the Prussians.
I did add greenstuff putty to the top of his hat to resemble the plumes typical of French high command.

MarquisMini · Aug 19, 2021

I 've made a minor modification to the other mounted figure, in this case it will be a high rank mounted Swiss Officer, uniform was worn over a breastplate ( usually blackened) and his hat already has plumes, a little unusual for officers except when they had a high comission and they could afford all of the "finery" of these uniforms.
I've got rid of the collar flaps, the French uniforms started using rurndown collars or flaps after 1758, so, i did some "Tailoring" on it.

Waterlooman · Aug 19, 2021

Very nice work and tight sharp painting - not always easy at this scale.

W.

Nap · Aug 20, 2021

Hi Daniel

I do like that pose on the young officer ....looks like he has his posh very junior officers nose stuck up in the air ! .....the painting of the reds are great as always

The mounted staff look the part and a nice bit of tailoring as well .....do like the face....they look quite well fed !

Nice work on the gray dapple

Thanks for sharing

Happy benchtime

Nap

MarquisMini · Aug 20, 2021

Waterlooman said:
Very nice work and tight sharp painting - not always easy at this scale.

W.

Thanks W !

MarquisMini · Aug 20, 2021

Nap said:
Hi Daniel

I do like that pose on the young officer ....looks like he has his posh very junior officers nose stuck up in the air ! .....the painting of the reds are great as always

The mounted staff look the part and a nice bit of tailoring as well .....do like the face....they look quite well fed !

Nice work on the gray dapple

Thanks for sharing

Happy benchtime

Nap

Thanks Kev, yes, these senior staff officers look well fed and aged compared to the rest of the figures.
As usual, thanks for your comments

MarquisMini · Aug 20, 2021

I have started to work on the drummers today.
I've layed the base colors for the coat.
This is one of the most controversial areas of the uniform research for this regiment's Musicians.
I want it to paint the coats in yellow with light blue facings, but that is for sure a chance that took place in 1763 onwards, i am depicting thos regiment at Rossbach in 1757, and Osprey book describe their livery in red , white lace, , red drum with hoops in red as well.
So, there is no more info than that, i decided to break from the usual that will be blue turnbacks, blue vest and pants.
In this case i decided to take the liberty of painting all red, since the sources do not specify anythimg and i've spent quite few hours researching this week.
I've learned that Foreign regiments in the French Army had some "freedom" to do as its colonel's "Like" , it seems to me that Frenchies were not really strict on uniform regulations till late after the Seven Year's war which saw a great deal of transformarion product of their bad perforrmance during the SYW.

WIP 28mm Regiment Diesbach, Black Hussar Miniatures

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