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Re: WSS sets, other nations.

totally agree with Minuteman's posting, as infantry and cavalry uniforms were fairly generic for this period and these days there is so much info available on the internet from blogs etc

Pinterest is a handy tool for getting uniform plates, suggest a search like "Hanoverian uniforms in WSS" and see what turns up

there are many books available too in many languages covering the period most have great colour plates

Soldiershop in Italy got 5 books on Austrians , a couple on Papal States and others
Helion Books in UK have many in their "Century of the Soldier series"

in an earlier post i did list other sources , like Robert Hall's and Bruno Mugani's books as well as Editions Brokaw Wargaming in Age of Marlborough series , booklets by C A Sapherson and others

hope that helps
cheers Old John

Re: WSS sets, other nations.

Dear Patrice,

while that's not an answer to your question, you still may be interested to know, that we're considering at the moment the lines along which to develop this series further.
An obvious line is to make some other nations on top of the existing French and British troops.
Simple paint conversion allows to draft many armies with those sets, that are already available at the moment. At the same time, there are armies, that had distinctively different uniforms, which can't be drawn by a simple brush and may require to be made in plastic first.
In this respect a question will arise: which specific mass armies/units require to be made separately.

Best regards,

Strelets

Re: WSS sets, other nations.

Strelets-R
Dear Patrice,

while that's not an answer to your question, you still may be interested to know, that we're considering at the moment the lines along which to develop this series further.
An obvious line is to make some other nations on top of the existing French and British troops.
Simple paint conversion allows to draft many armies with those sets, that are already available at the moment. At the same time, there are armies, that had distinctively different uniforms, which can't be drawn by a simple brush and may require to be made in plastic first.
In this respect a question will arise: which specific mass armies/units require to be made separately.

Best regards,

Strelets
Dear Strelets,

Thank you, a most interesting reply.

We will be guided accordingly!:slightly_smiling_face: :+1:

Regards

Minuteman

Re: WSS sets, other nations.

Dear Strelets team, again my compliments on all your WSS sets, sculpting is great and i'm looking forward to all forthcoming sets
couple of suggestions for future sets, Dutch and Danish grenadiers in their distinctive caps,and as there were many sieges and river crossings in this period, maybe a pontoon set, engineers for sieges some of which wore part armour, and a set of personalities/ generals, with maybe a couple of Marlborough's foot runners in jockey style caps, Portuguese troops (as far as i know no-one else does them), Hungarian Rebels another possibility,a general's coach another idea

stay safe out there
cheers Old John

Re: WSS sets, other nations.

Wonderful news, your expansion of the WSS-range and the new box cover!

Which sets are need still....

Austrian/Bavarian cuirassiers - theirs uniforms were quite similar
Hungarian hussars
Austrian infantry (other hats and broader coats than the french or british) - please 2 sets: firing//loading/standing and marching/advancing/attacking. or 2 sets: musketiers and grenadiers
Mounted bavarian grenadiers

Austrian dragoons
dutch infantry + grenadiers
prussian infantry + grenadiers
prussian cavalry

and certainly some spanish sets who will been added from others

and please
a generic bagage-/artillery train (wagons) which won´t been a problem for all armies because there were mostly civilians who were hired for the transport-wagons (oxes were still widely used for big loads)
and eventually
a working/digging pionier-set with civlians and soldiers without coats and regular hats
and
a big mortar set for the many sieges of this war

and very important please always 2 drummers in each infantry set!

Re: WSS sets, other nations.

I agree with Old John and Sansovino, especially for the Austrian infantry and heavy cavalry, and also Dutch/Danish infantry/grenadiers.

Cheers,

Alessandro

Re: WSS sets, other nations.

sansovino
Wonderful news, your expansion of the WSS-range and the new box cover!

Which sets are need still....

please
a generic bagage-/artillery train (wagons) which won´t been a problem for all armies because there were mostly civilians who were hired for the transport-wagons (oxes were still widely used for big loads)
and eventually
a working/digging pionier-set with civlians and soldiers without coats and regular hats
and
a big mortar set for the many sieges of this war
All good ideas, but the idea of a baggage wagon/carts, with some horses and non-combatant drivers, camp followers etc would be a different and very useful set.

Re: WSS sets, other nations.

Hi!

Hungarian Hussars would be a great set, can be rebels, Austrians or in French service.