Six 18mm ECW Parliamentarian Horse Regiments Completed

After having completed my six planned Royalist Horse regiments I thought I had better get stuck into the Parliamentarian horse while I still had the motivation, managing to complete the same number of regiments over the past four weeks:

First up is the Earl of Essex's regiment of horse:

These were described as having mixed coat colours so I stuck to mainly buff, tan and dark brown for the troopers:

Lord Fielding's regiment were apparently coated in grey, which is a nice change from the usual buff and raw hide coats:

Sir William Balfour's Horse appears to have mainly worn buff coats, and I chose this regiment because I like the standard which is again from Wargames Designs:

The Earl of Stamford's Horse wore blue coats, and I again included them to provide some variation:

And I painted up Lord Fairfax's Regiment of Horse with their red coats for the same reason. These are comprised of the slightly more dynamic charging pose, but I found the figure shooting his pistol a little difficult to position anywhere but on the left of each element:

The sixth and final regiment had to be that of the famous Sir William Waller, even if it did mean having to apply four coats of my least favourite colour, yellow:

Finally, I realised that I had mistakenly given the Royalist Prince Rupert's Regiment of Horse red coats when if fact they should have been blue. This was in spite of the fact I had done his foot regiment in the correct colours. Prince Rupert's Lifeguard did apparently wear red coats (which is what I was mistakenly looking), but that was only about the size of a single troop of Horse so too small for the number of figures completed.

Rather then muck around I realised his brother Prince Maurice had outfitted his regiment in red and I had his standard on hand, so a quick change of flag and label seemed the most sensible thing to do:

This is now all the Royalist and Parliamentarian Horse complete, apart from two regiments of cuirassiers and four of dragoons. 

I have started work on the four regiments of dragoons, two for each army. Even though these will be smaller units at only four elements and twelve figures each I am planning on doing them both mounted and dismounted with attendant horseholders, so at least another couple of hundred individual figures. I am planning on giving this project as much of a push as possible as I would very much like to see these two armies fully completed before Christmas, and perhaps even get the last of my Scots Covenanters prepared and in the queue.