Régiment de la Garde du Paris
The battalion below represents the 1st battalion of the Garde de Paris from late 1808 - early 1812, or the combined 1st and 2nd battalions of the Garde de Paris in February of 1812 under the command of Colonel Jean Francois Rabbe, renamed the Régiment de la Garde du Paris.
The figures of the regiment are Hinton Hunt originals for the most part I believe, with perhaps a few good quality copies, but sometimes it is hard to tell the exact origin. The mounted Colonel is a modern Franznap sculpt.
I could not have done this without the generous donation of the fusiliers by Nigel S, so a shout out to him for helping me bring this regiment to completion!
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| The white uniforms were a challenge, but in the end turned out quite well. |
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| As always with French uniforms, all of the detailing takes forever! |
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| The command group are mostly from the grenadier company, though I believe, despite the red plume, the drummer would not be considered a grenadier. I think the red distinctives were just part of the drummers standard uniform and an ode to the earlier green and red jackets and bearskins. |
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| The voltigeurs were unusual in that they wore the bearskin as well. Theirs are one of my favorite uniforms to date. |
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| The uniform of the grenadiers is a close second! |
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| Note the hand painted paper flag. I used a printout of a basic French flag from Napflags as a template, and printed in black and white with a ~70% transparency setting to make it very light, and then just painted over it. |
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| The Franznap French Colonel is just an all around excellent sculpt! |
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| Love the combination of the white, green and gold! |
What's next? Lots of Spanish!
Though I do hope to clear off a few odds and ends from my painting desk first...
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