Bülows Dragoon regiment - Great Northern War

These were fun to paint.

Nice to actually see the old leadpile shrinking somewhat for a change…

They are painted to represent the Danish Bülows Dragoon regiment from the Great Northern War.

Danes for Great Northern War

Every now and then you open your drawer/box with halfpainted miniatures, most of the time you givet hem a quick look and then close it again. But sometimes you actually finish of the last of the painting on them…

I give you Danish artillery and officers from the Great Northern War. This project have run really slow for a long time now but I could at least finish these.

The miniatures are from Black Hat miniatures.

Jönköpings regemente

Jönköpings regemente

Great Northern War

I finally finished a new unit for my slowly (extremely slowly…) Great Northern War project.
Its my old hometown, Jönköpings regiment. Painted in 1718 uniforms.
Miniatures from Dixon in 15mm scale.

And a upclose picture of the regimental standard.

Fynske regiment

A small update.

Here we have the Danish Fynske regiment.

That means that all my old stuff for this project is published but that also means that I have to start painting some more miniatures…

"...Sveriges blomstrande ungdom..."

Well you can’t just have Danish troops on a battlefield, you need some Swedes to make a Great Northern war. Here are some of the Swedish troops I intend on going Erst-Hugo on their asses.

Närkes regiment in red and blue.
Västerbottens regiment in white and blue.
 

And a steady hand will come in handy in this scale...

How I painted the Danish troops

How to..

What I have done
* Removed the flash and cleaned the models.
* Glued the models on wooden sticks, paint stirrer or popsicles is perfect for this.
* Gave them a “zenith light” painting, this is probably totally unnecessary in this scale but I did it anyway. I first sprayed the models black and when that had dried I sprayed a light layer of white over the models in about 45 degree angle. This will make a natural light and shade on the model. This will give a much better effect on 28mm scale and I will not use it on all my 15mm models.
* I then painted them in the colors they will have, making no attempt to make any shade.
* Then I painted the models in a thin layer of GW:s Devlar mud.

* Then the trick is to highlight the models in the same colors that was under the thin layer of Devlar mud. This will make a quick and very effective effect.

And with some sand painted in downwatered brown and some flock they look splendid.

Handpainted flag...

Great Northern War

 

When I started my Great Northern war I chose the 15mm scale. This project was never intended to be a main project but rather something that would always be in the rear, something in between other projects.

I needed Swedish troops and someone to battle against, and instead of choosing the more common Russian troops I chose Denmark.
Many years ago I played a demo game of “ Gå På ” in Lincon here in Sweden. I got the rulebook but nothing more happened. 

Sometime this spring I think, something made me get interesting in the whole thing of Caroleans and the Great Northern war again and I bought some miniatures and the new edition of the rules, and now I think it’s about time to show off some of the models I have painted since then. My hope is that these posts will inspire me to pick up the project again and start painting some Swedish and Danish troops.
If I will use the Gå På rules or the Black Powder rules I haven’t decided yet but I will base the miniatures according to Gå På and then I could use it to either one of them.

 

The Danish troops are bought at Black hat miniatures
http://www.blackhat.co.uk/online_shop/index.php?cPath=22_161&osCsid=e926a01a00ecb1e355d85293ff5823a0

The Swedish troops are bought at Dixon miniatures
http://www.dixon-minis.com/dixoncatalogue.php?maintype=22