At long last, the 1/72 ECW blue-coated regiment of foot that I started 3 years ago has been based and varnished. Mind you, I originally bought the old Revell Thirty Years War figures 35 years ago when they first came out (so no rush). They did see some action fighting the ECW around 25 years ago or more, and I did start to paint a few many years ago, but didn’t get far.

The Blue Coats are the first, I hope, of a series of generic units that can be swopped about between the Cavaliers and Roundheads as needed. At some distant time in the future, I will paint some specific units for each side. The figures are, of course, painted in the classic style and gloss varnished as is proper.

I have completed the pike and command for a red-coated regiment but have not yet started the musketeers. I can only hope it will not take me three years to get around to them.