Royalist beginnings

As I live in Newcastle upon Tyne but come from Worcester, I think my first batch of figures will be Royalist.

I decided to go with Baccus figures as they look great and they had great reviews.  The last time I ordered some 6mm figures it was from Heroics & Ros and they were not the best castings I had ever seen.  Still a lot can happen in thirty years and I am sure H & R figures are better now.
I ordered a booster pack of infantry, which makes eight regiments of thirty six figures (24 musket, 8 pike and 4 command), I also ordered some cavalry which will give me enough figures to make five regiments of nine figures.  So, that is a total of 333 figures, hopefully by the time I have them all done I will know if I am capable of painting in this scale.

So while I waited for the figures to arrive I spent several weeks researching coat colours of the regiments on both sides of the conflict.  I managed to track down details for quite a few foot regiments, but horse and dragoon regiment details were not easy to track down so I will be improvising with those.

These regiments will be painted as units that formed the King's Oxford Army.


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