The League of Augsburg

A rare example of my original style of painting from 1992

Barry Hilton- The first regiment of Horse I painted for my collection seems an appropriate choice as the first cavalry unit to appear in our series of featured regiments. I was probably intrigued by the fact they were Dutch, they were Guards and they were figures I had never painted before. I was really experimenting at the time with which...

Bob Miller- Le Roi Soleil will be attending Millenniumcon in Round Rock, Texas over November 8 through 10. We will be bringing the entire line of Warfare Miniatures figures together with the rulebooks "Beneath the Lilly Banners" and "Republic to Empire." We still have a limited supply of LoA markers. We may have some surprises. If you want shirts or to ensure that we have what you want, please...

By Bob Black. Bob was formerly editor of Toy Soldier & Model Figure magazine. The following piece was written for the Regimentmagazine which folded before the article saw the light of day. I am not sure whether Bob wrote the article himself or it was a piece from another author. It is an extract from a longer contribution on the Royal Scots. Although some new research has come to light which may...

Orders of Battle and Unit Composition

Dutch Dragoons advance against the French

Barry Hilton- I took a car journey to Walcourt about 7 years ago and was very surprised by the terrain in the area. Walcourt is near Charleroi in south Belgium and the approach from the north was through a deep gorge as far as I can remember. I couldn't reconcile the terrain with things I had read about the battle. The town is built on a slope climbing out...

September's Partizan saw a larger than normal gathering of the clans at our traditional watering hole of the Dovecote on the A46. Thirteen of us had a rather boozy supper with relentless teasing of various victims orchestrated chiefly by David Imrie I think! Once he's got you in his sights he shows no mercy! We all went off to the show at 0815 reinforced by one of Harry's hearty breakfasts. We had...

Ray Rousell- Back in 2010 my pal Richard suggested a joint painting project, he quite fancied the Nine Years War. Now here’s where I have to admit to knowing absolutely nothing about this great period sandwiched between the more well-known English Civil Wars and the Wars of the Spanish Succession. So a quick look online and in my pal Posties book “From Pike to Shot” and I was hooked. Richard...

Ray King - This brigade was the third line of Lord Cutt's troops, but were the 2nd brigade to assault the village of Blenheim.

Barry Hilton- I absolutely adored painting the Copplestone designed figures offered by Dixon. The first French regiment I ever completed were these garcons. I recall the logic of choosing Regiment Languedoc at the time. I was still experimenting with the period, painting and basing styles thus picked a unit which was not too well known so that if I made any mistakes they would not blow the quality...

Barry Hilton - The inspiration for this piece was an article written by Rene Chartrand in 1999 but which I read for the first time in 2008 when some nice chap posted a link to it on the League of Augsburg forum. Occasionally we all happen on something that captures our imagination disproportionately and Mr Chartrand’s work did that for me. I was familiar with some of his output via the Osprey...