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Dragoons
Dismounted French Dragoons are next to join my Armée d’Orient. I liked the idea of maybe using these as the standard ‘Soldier’ troop type for Silver Bayonet units, with the leader a potential Officer figure.
These have been painted in the colours of the 15e Regiment of Dragoons. Napoleonic French Dragoon regiments were grouped by facing colours, with slight differences between regiments as to whether collars, cuffs, lapels, lacing etc. appeared in green or their regimental colour (image below for thise with the interest in such detail). The 15e were a pink faced regiment, and thanks to the long gloves worn by the models, I didn’t have to worry about remembering the green cuffs. I stuck with green coats, although there are records of lack of supplies meaning many ended up dressed in undyed cloth.
Besides having fun painting the poppy pink, another reason for painting these as the 15e was their long boots, a uniform feature noted as being particular to that regiment (according to Perrys’ website anyway!). I went with a typical reversed colours for the trumpeter, although I’ve no idea if that is accurate.
All figures are again Paul Hicks sculpts sold by Brigade Games, with image backgrounds by John Hodgson via one of his backdrop books.
French Dragoon uniform colours for those interested in the details.
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