This page contains a collection of colour sheets intended to be used for Prince August's miniature figures (40 mm scale). These are free to be used by everyone, just click on the images and then print out the sheets.

Swedish Infantry

Guard Colours

The Guard (Livgardet) was an enlisted regiment based in Stockholm which at the outbreak of the Great Northern War consisted of 1 800 men distributed to 12 companies which had one colour each. It was then gradually expanded to reach 2 600 men in 24 companies in 1704 (six of these were however grenadier companies which did not carry colours).

The colour sheet to the left is the Guard's company colour m/1686. The two colour sheets to the right are my reconstructions of the Guard's colonel's colour (Swedish coat of arms instead of the royal cypher) which was carried by the Colonel's Company and the special grenadier colours which were issued in 1702 but carried until the battle of Poltava by three regular companies. The grenadier colours were said to have included flaming grenades in the corners but just like the colonel's colour there are no preserved image of them.

Provincial Regiments

A typical Swedish infantry regiment consisted of 1 200 men in eight companies. Of the provincial regiments it was only Närke-Värmland which had more than eight companies (1 674 men in ten companies). Each company had their own colour which had the same appearance as the other companies in the regiment (except the Colonel's Company) and followed the regulation of 1686, hence called m/1686 colour. The Colonels Company distinguished itself by having a white colour featuring the Swedish coat of arms in the centre and the regimental symbol in the upper inner corner. The regimental symbol was in most cases the coat of arms of the province in which the regiment was recruited in. The exceptions were Jönköping and Älvsborg regiments which instead had the coat of arms of the cities Jönköping and Gothenburg. The regular companies' colours had the regimental symbol inside a laurel wreath. Some variations existed when more than one regiment was recruited in the same province or when the provincial coat of arms had a black or white field.

When the Great Northern War broke out there was a need for additional regiments. This was done by combining the "rotar" (responsible for the upkeep of one soldier) in groups of three to recruit an additional soldier, a so called 3-männing. This meant that an area which maintained a 1 200 men strong regiment had to recruit a further 400 men which were then combined with contingents from other regimental districts to create new full size regiments. These contingents carried colours with their parent regiment's symbol in the upper inner corner in an otherwise plain colour. An example of this is the colours of Småland 3-männing Regiment which carried one white (colonel's colour) and four yellow colours with the red crossbow carrying lion of Småland in the corner and three yellow colours with the coat of arms of the city of Jönköping.

Uppland	Södermanland	Östergötland	Kalmar	Kronoberg	Jönköping
Älvsborg	Västgöta-Dal	Skaraborg	Närke-Värmland	Västmanland	Dal-regiment
Hälsinge	Jämtland	Västerbotten	Österbotten	Björneborg	Åbo
Nyland	Tavastehus	Savolax	Viborg		Småland 3-männings

Swedish Cavalry

A typical Swedish cavalry regiment consisted of 1 000 men distributed on eight companies. Just like the infantry each cavalry company had their own standard with a pattern that was the same for the entire regiment, except for the colonel's company which had a white colonel's standard with the Swedish coat of arms in the middle and the regimental symbol in the upper inner corner. The pattern of the standards and been established in a regulation from 1686 and any standard made in accordance of this is called m/1686. According to this the company standards were to have the regimental symbol (the coat of arms of the province in which they were recruited) as the motif on one side and the Royal cypher on the other side. Because cavalry standards were more durable than infantry colours most cavalry regiments retained older standards than m/1686 all the way through the battle of Poltava. The older standards differs from m/1686 by having the regimental symbol inside a laurel wreath and numbers in the corners (showing the year the standards was made).

m/1686 Colonel's standard	Livregementet till häst, Vadsbo Company (1679-1709)	Livregementet till häst Södermanland Company (1710-1718)	Adelsfanan (1710-)
Liv-dragoons (1700-1709)   Liv-dragoons (1710-1718) Liv-dragoons (1718-)
Östgöta (1676-1683)	Östgöta (1684-1709)	Östgöta 1710-1712	Östgöta (1712-1731)
Småland (1674-?)	Småland (1677-1709)	Småland (1710-1735)	Småland (1735-1776)
Södra Skånska (1691-1709)	Södra Skånska 1712-1735	Norra Skånska (1674-1709)	Norra Skånska (1710-1729)
Riksänkedrottningen (1674-1713)	Bohuslän Dragoons (1670-1719)	Västgöta (1674-1703, 1713-1723)	Västgöta (1703-1713)
Åbo & Björneborg (1683-1709)	Nyland (1676-1709)	Nyland (m/1686 which was never issued)	Karelska (1720-1721)

Anti-Swedish Coalition

Russian Infantry Colours

Preobrazhenski Guard 1706	Semenovski Guard	Russian colonel's colour of a model issued before 1707
Tverski Regiment 1700	Pskovski Regiment 1700 (colours on the palm leaves and cross are speculative)	Same colonel's colour as above but with different proportions so that it can be used together the colours to the left.

The colours for the Tverski and Pskovski regiments have the motif that was the same for all regiments raised at the start of the war. The background colour of Tverski can easily be changed in order to create a colour representing a different regiment and on Pskovski the palm leaves and cross can also easily be changed. 

Russian Dragoon Colours

Permski Dragoon Regiment 1703	Vladimirski Dragoon Regiment 1703				Moscowski Dragoon Regiment 1709
Speculative dragoon colour 1	Speculative dragoon colour 2				Speculative dragoon colour 3
The Russian dragoon regiments also had colours with the same motif which was varied with different colouring. Only four possible colour combinations for the cross and palm leaves existed however (gold and silver). The colours in the top row above show three  of these combinations and by changing the background colour as in the second row you could easily make more variations.					Moscowski Dragoon Regiment 1707
Another type of motif appears to have come in fashion at the time of the Charles XII's Russian campaign and that is the double eagle to the right. The background colour of that one can also easily be changed in order to create more variants. Saxon Colours
Polish Guard m/1701			Saxon Guard m/1701
Leibregiment Dragoons		Brause's Dragoon Regiment		Oertzen's Dragoon Regiment 1703
Bayreuth's Dragoon Regiment (likely)		Goltz' Dragoon Regiment (likely)		Oertzen's Dragoon Regiment 1704
Danish and Norwegian Colours
Livgarden til Fods 1710 (captured by the Swedes at Helsingborg)		Dronningen's Livregiment 1685		Colour for the regiment commanded by Schack 1688-1701, Schwängel 1701-1704, Prince of Hessen 1704-1710 and thereafterr Zepelin.
Jyske Regiment		Fynske Regiment		Sjællandske Regiment 1710
Vesterlenske Regiment m/1704 (Norway)		Prince Christian's Regiment (colonel's colour)		Prince Christian's Regiment (company colour) (probably issued after 1711 when black became the regimental colour)