Wednesday 18 May 2016

Neuchatel Battalion


Neuchâtel Battalion a.k.a "The Canaries" (Front Rank miniatures)

See also the Regiment of Isembourg, by clicking here !
















Grenadier, chasseur and voltigeur:






Standard bearer and officer :









Sapper, sergeant, drummer :



8 comments:

  1. I like them. The yellow came out really well. I have to paint Spanish Dragoons next and have been thinking about the best way to achieve the yellow.

    I have a Neuchatel Battalion that I painted twenty years ago - and it shows. Was thinking of doing them again because they are so colourful, but in the end decided to stick with what I had.

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    1. Thanks !

      Yellow uniforms are quite rare but very funny to paint.

      I used a layer of Vallejo 70.873 US field drab, then I brushed with Vallejo 70.913 yellow ochre and then with vallejo 70.953 flat yellow.

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  2. Félicitations , très belle peinture , les détails sont parfait ...Et que dire du drapeau ..
    voltigeur59191.over-blog.com

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  3. Your beautifully painted miniatures do full justice to the Perry and Front Rank sculpts. However, I note a few errors concerning your French and allied formations:

    1/ The infantry and cavalry sappers are always part of the grenadier company of carabinieri or the elite company of the regiments of dragoons, hussars and hunters on horseback.

    2/ The regiment of Issembourg was created on November 1st 1805 as a light infantry regiment.
    The lapels of the coat are therefore pointed.
    After the Bardin reform of 1812, the facings were initially pointed and turned into a boot with facing flap. The uniform will retain its pointed lapels.

    3/ The battalion of Neuchâtel was created on May 11th 1807 as a light infantry unit.
    It never wore the pre-Bardin "French" dress, but a dress with relatively high straight lapels revealing a white waistcoat and facings in pointe
    From 1812 he wears the Bardin outfit which no longer shows the white waistcoat.
    The bottom of the red rifleman's hairy cap decorated with a white grenade is correct but the regulations did not provide for a cord or racket even if the contemporary engravings of Wurtz and Carl attest to certain freedoms in this respect sometimes red sometimes white.
    The cord and the sapper's rackets, always red, but the cord sometimes falls from right to left and sometimes the other way around.

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    1. Thank you for the feed-back, that was very interesting ;-)

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