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How To Build A Continental Regt. Part II
4th Pennsylvania Regiment Firing Line - click picture to enlarge.The next regiment that we shall look at is wearing, largely, grey hunting shirts along with one stand of purple hunting shirts and one...
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How to Build a Continental Regt. - Part III
7th Pennsylvania Regiment - Fife & Drum MiniaturesToday's AWI featured regiment is the 7th Pennsylvania Regiment that was in the First Pennsylvania Brigade, commanded by Colonel Thomas Hartley. The...
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How to Build a Continental Regt - Part IV
Today's regiment is one of the first units that I painted in my Continental Army several years ago. The 1st Maryland was in Sullivan's Division at Brandywine. I wanted this regiment to have a larger...
View ArticleA New Blog For Hesse Seewald
I have set up a new blog in the Der Alte Fritz family of blogs that will be devoted entirely to the happenings and goings on in the Kingdom of Hesse Seewald. Eventually I will post pictures of the...
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The AWI Maryland Brigade
Maryland Brigade 1777 (R-L) 1st Maryland, 2nd Maryland, 6th Maryland, and the Delaware Regiment.Here is a picture of my Maryland Brigade in my Continental Army for the Philadelphia Campaign of 1777....
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Russian Artillery Crew Are Coming!
Russian General FermorRichard has finished the greens for the first of the SYW Russians that we plan on adding to the Minden Miniatures range of figures. I wanted to have distinct loading and firing...
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New Minden Zieten Personality Figure Green
Von Zieten personality figure sculpted by Richard AnsellHere is the latest little masterpiece off the work bench of Richard Ansell, the designer of the Minden Miniatures range of SYW figures.You know,...
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Austrian Staff Vignette
Hungarian Grenadiers march past General von Loudon and Prince Charles of Lorraine (click picture to enlarge the view)I thought that I would post one of my favorite pictures of my Austrian army. It is a...
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GNW Swedes
Warfare Miniatures GNW SwedesA couple of days ago I received a package in the mail that was moderately heavy and it rattled. Hmm, thinks I, what could this be?I was not expecting the arrival of...
View ArticleI Have To Miss the SYWA Convention this Year
It is with much regret that I have to announce that I will have to cancel my attendance at this year's Seven Years War Association Convention in South Bend, Indiana on Friday and Saturday of this...
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The Hesse Seewald Army Adds a New Regiment
IR5 Prinz Heinrich Fusilier RegimentSince I could not make it to the Seven Years War Association Convention in South Bend, Indiana this weekend, I compensated myself by spending a fair amount of time...
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New Summerfield Book On SYW Hanoverian Army
Today, I received notice that Stephen Summerfield's book on the Hanoverian Army of the SYW is being published with an expected release at the Salute game convention in the UK at the end of April. The...
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Mollwitz Anniversary Today
Today is the 274th anniversary of Frederick the Great's first victory of his military career at the Battle of Mollwitz. Some would say that it was actually Marshall Schwerin's victory since he...
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The Essence of The Hobby
Minden Miniatures from the collection of Charles S. Grant. One could spend hours gazing on this tableau.I found this paragraph on Barry Hilton's League of Augsburg blog:League of Augsburg...
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Setting Up the Mollwitz Terrain
I had to clear my game table of the AWI period Trenton terrain to make way for my recreation of the Battle of Mollwitz fought on April 10, 1741 between Prussia and Austria.Here are some progressive...
View ArticleSomething Is Brewing
I want to draw your attention to the Kingdom of Hesse Seewald blog ( Here )where a lot of things are happening of late. The Hesse Seewald army is growing at a rapid clip with two new regiments being...
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Prussian Bakers in Revolt!
Prussian Field Bakery constructed by Ed Phillips, using Minden Pioneers workers set.Prussian Bakers in Revolt 1757, 1758 and 1760(the following article was written by Martin Tomczak and posted on his...
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Mollwitz Begins - Two Turns
Prussian cuirassiers are surrounded by the Austrians in the cavalry melee. (click pix to enlarge).This evening I fought the first two turns of the Battle of Mollwitz using my own Der Alte Fritz rules....
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Mollwitz Game - Part 2 Conclusion
Prussian general staff congratulation King Frederick on his victoryWe left off the other day with two game turns under our belt: the Austrian and Prussian cavalry were whaling away on one another while...
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Map of the Battle of Kolin in 1757
The map above was found during a Google search for images of the battle of Kolin, fought in June 1757. You can purchase a full size version through the Bridgeman Art Collection on line. The copy shown...
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