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Chaps,
After an incredibly long lay off from Napoleonics I'm comencing a new project. The last Napoleonics completed were Silesian Landwehr. Well I've finally finished my ECW cavalry before work, this morning. So I've decided to return to my main project in the Peninsular as the 200th anniversarys of Rolica and Vimerio are not far off now, so I'd better get a move on. Quatre Bras and Waterloo will have to wait !
First in line are the French Grenadiers for Vimerio, shown in the Osprey book of the battle to be wearing 'off white greatcoats/dust jackets. Has anybody done these 4 battalions already, or do you just pinch the grenadier companies from your line battalions ? They numbered 2,100 men under Kellerman I think. So I'll be doing 4 battalions of 24 figures, and a few extra officer figures to make up the numbers to 105 figures, using the Elite Minitures greatcoat figure in campaign dress with epaulettes. Any hints or tips or further uniform information would be much appreciated, whilst undercoating is in progress. The Osprey shows all wearing the pale coat but I suspect that this is probably artistic licence, and would ALL have worn their red epaulettes outside the coat ?
Thanks in advance for any information
After an incredibly long lay off from Napoleonics I'm comencing a new project. The last Napoleonics completed were Silesian Landwehr. Well I've finally finished my ECW cavalry before work, this morning. So I've decided to return to my main project in the Peninsular as the 200th anniversarys of Rolica and Vimerio are not far off now, so I'd better get a move on. Quatre Bras and Waterloo will have to wait !
First in line are the French Grenadiers for Vimerio, shown in the Osprey book of the battle to be wearing 'off white greatcoats/dust jackets. Has anybody done these 4 battalions already, or do you just pinch the grenadier companies from your line battalions ? They numbered 2,100 men under Kellerman I think. So I'll be doing 4 battalions of 24 figures, and a few extra officer figures to make up the numbers to 105 figures, using the Elite Minitures greatcoat figure in campaign dress with epaulettes. Any hints or tips or further uniform information would be much appreciated, whilst undercoating is in progress. The Osprey shows all wearing the pale coat but I suspect that this is probably artistic licence, and would ALL have worn their red epaulettes outside the coat ?
Thanks in advance for any information
Simon W