Illustrations by Gabriel Mykaj from Wargamer Illustrated magazine - Bavarian Cavalry circa 1683 - 1704

These illustrations were included in the monthly magazine Wargamer Illustrated many issues ago and were a nice set seemingly based on Hoffman drawings.  My scans and copy are deficient in that they were over exposed a bit and there is some washout of the colors that has occurred.  The mid-blue is too light as I usually note for example.

Another issue is the red as depicted for the Dragoons and elsewhere was not the red-brown color shown in these illustrations, but a true red dye color (see the additional other pictures at the bottom).  Perhaps the illustrator was using the Todd prints from our last posting where the red does seem to have a tint of brown mixed in.  All too often it seems it is difficult to speak definitively about the intended color of uniforms as issued to troops a few hundred years ago!!!

Here is a different illustration by Anton Hoffman for the Dragoons.

And here is a couple of nicely painted 30mm flats that show this uniform also:

I am always amazed at the depths that a 30mm flat figure (zinnfiguren) can be painted and will be adding some pictures of my own collection soon.

Max Emanuel's Army again from the Todd Collection Part 2

Now for the rest of the infantry and the rest of the plates.

And this print from the old calendars by Herr Tritt.

The spears/pikes in a log noted above were a feature of the Turkenkreig and there is an example on display at the Bavarian Army Museum.

Quite handy when faced by hundreds of animated Sipahis who are looking for a way to break into your formation.......

Max Emanuel's Army again from the Todd Collection Part 1

Here is the List of Illustrations that accompanied the original issue of The Army of the Blue King and it breaks the folio down into the time periods represented by each plate.

The late Colonel Todd in his role as Chief Librarian at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point also had a series of hand colored prints done to illustrate the Army of the Blue King and these plates will follow in this and future postings.

These are in the order in which we found them in the folio but most all the plates are noted with a title at the bottom.

You will note that the mid-blue here is rendered a little darker that in the original folio.  I particularly like the grey coat and purple facing shown for the Regiment Rummel.

More of the Grenadiers, cavalry and artillery to follow.