Von Donop Hessian Regiment

 

Finally started my Hessians for my AWI collection in the form of the Von Donop regiment to kick things off.  I just kept putting off doing Hessians, because the uniforms I knew would be a challenge....not as challenging as the British early uniforms, but for sure more complex then the Southern campaigns I have mostly been doing with the Americans and British.

The unit is modeled after the Von Donop regiment which can be read about on Wiki at your convenience, but truth be told I pretty much use regiments as a way of keeping variety in my force and some historical grounding, however in game terms they will be used whenever I use Hessians not just if Von Donop was present(bonus if it is!). 

The Hessians/German mercenaries often had this straw color to the uniform as did this regiment, however as you may have noticed mine do not. The answer is pretty simple in that I really dislike that color for large portions of a uniform and reaching into my bag of liberties I changed it into a buff color which I prefer.

Like many of Perry's miniatures they are demanding to clean and paint(I thought I was going to pull my hair out doing the musicians!), but the payoff is well worth it. The Perry's hit the nail on the head with AWI and imho captured the period better then anyone, but they sure make you work for it!  

In addition to this I have even more backlog coming and much of it AWI which is fitting considering the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence and the war I've spent a lot of my time attempting to model and game. It's a toss up between the AWI and ACW as to my favorite period. As far as looks probably AWI, but for reading probably ACW, but either way both have remained consistently my favorite. Every time I do other projects I eventually come back to these two. Always more to do!

Thanks for viewing!

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