Showing posts with label 1813. Show all posts
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Wednesday 11 May 2022

Selling - 28mm Young Guard - Flanquer Chasseurs Painted 2 battalions

 





Here's the link if you want to have a look :  They're the fab green uniforms (with higher officer wearing their blue Middle Guard uniforms) 

UK Ebay 

US Ebay

The uniforms are based on research in a newish book Dawson's Napoleon's Imperial Guard the Infantry.

Where he says

 

From this it is clear that the flanqueur's uniform was green with chamois facings.
Chamois was also the facing colour for voltigeurs in the line, and is a distinct
colour of a pale yellow/beige shade, as opposed to the yellow used by the voltigeurs
of the Guard. The only scarlet cloth issued was for the tail facings and linings in milled serge.

Therefore, Knoetel and Jouineau are wrong in ascribing scarlet piping. The facings
of the tails were clearly scarlet milled serge with chamois piping. The regiment's
archive confirms what the period iconography shows: chamois collar and cuffs.


So rather than having green cuffs piped yellow (or red) they are painted with yellow - or chamois cuffs.  

There's a wonderful representation of these units over on this blog, where they also chose to represnt officers in green too - so effectively only low ranking officers. 










Friday 10 March 2017

28mm Milan Guard 1813 - Painted Wargames Foundry Figures - Perry Sculpts

Milan Guard 1813 - 28mm Wargames Foundry Napoleonic Infantry
Milan Guard 1813 - 28mm Wargames Foundry Napoleonic Infantry

This is a unit I painted many moons ago as part of a slightly mad plan to create Bertrand's 1813 IV Corps in it's entirety in 28mm. I was tempted by the variety - it includes an Italian Division and Wurttemberg Division.  Needless to say I only managed to do part of the division.  I'll try and dig out some more of the Italians and a bizarre experiment with painting Wurttemberg flats, for speed!

I got the inspiration from a couple of books:  Petrie's volume on the 1813 campaign and "Napoleon's Grand Armee of 1813 by Scott Bowden". 

The last book has a series of unit lists for the army at various points in the campaign. The Milan Guard was in Moroni's 3rd Brigade of the 15th Division - commanded by Fontanelli.  They fought alongside three battalions of the  7th Italian Line Regiment at Gross-Beeren, Dennewitz, Wartenburg, Leipzig & Hanau.   The battalion had six line companies - no "elite" companies. 

The figures are metal 28mm Wargames Foundry French Infantry  (I think mainly FN 080 - marching in campaign dress) - one of the last lots sculpted by the Perry's I think. They are beautiful figures and a pleasure to paint.  The flag is hand painted and pretty much to size - but feels a little too small.

Milan Guard 1813 - 28mm Wargames Foundry Napoleonic Infantry



I need to work on my photography - any tips on how to get better depth of field would be greatly appreciated. 
Milan Guard 1813 - 28mm Wargames Foundry Napoleonic Infantry
Milan Guard 1813 - 28mm Wargames Foundry Napoleonic Infantry
Milan Guard 1813 - 28mm Wargames Foundry Napoleonic Infantry
Milan Guard 1813 - 28mm Wargames Foundry Napoleonic Infantry
Milan Guard 1813 - 28mm Wargames Foundry Napoleonic Infantry
Milan Guard 1813 - 28mm Wargames Foundry Napoleonic Infantry

Milan Guard 1813 - 28mm Wargames Foundry Napoleonic Infantry
Milan Guard 1813 - 28mm Wargames Foundry Napoleonic Infantry

Selling - 28mm Young Guard - Flanquer Chasseurs Painted 2 battalions

  Here's the link if you want to have a look :  They're the fab green uniforms (with higher officer wearing their blue Middle Guard ...