"Napoleonic Risk Pieces" Topic

Everybody remembers these. I recently came into possession of some, and I think I'll paint them up as cheap-and-cheerful 10mm Nappys. (You laugh, but at $.05 USD per fig, its a helluva bargain)

The trouble? I want to use the base color of the figures, since they don't have much detail and I don't want to obscure what little is there. However, I have only the grey, green and yellow ones.

So, which nations used these colors for jackets?

Green is obvious: The Russians.

Yellow: Not sure, but I think I remember reading that some Neapolitan troops wore yellow jackets? Crummy troops, I know, but colorful, and an excellent excuse to field Murat if I can find him in 10mm.

Gray: Another stumper. I know that American troops of the period wore gray, but they also wore the stovepipe shako, while these troops have the bell shako. Americans also only fought the British, and I want all of these troops to be able to fight each other.

Thanks

PS, I may just break down and apray paint the gray ones blue, but I'd like to find a way to make this work. Humor me.

BTW, if this works as a core army, I will probably add in real Nappys, and start building a sizable force. This is exactly the way I did my fantasy army (Risk Lord of the Rings and Age of Mythology pieces) and science fiction stuff (Risk 2010 AD, Risk Star Wars, and Buck Rogers Battle for the 25th Century for the spacecraft).

"Figured" Risk pieces can still be got, and they are an excellent way to start an inexpensive army.

I'd go with:

Yellow: Portugal
Red: British
Black: Prussian
Green: Russian
Gray: Austrian (yes, they were white, but…) or American
Blue: French (of course!)

Grey with bell shakos could be Spanish … see here:

fusiliers.net/gallery8.htm (scroll down a bit)

The Neuchatel Battalion in French service wore yellow.

I painted hundreds of these for "Napoleon in Europe"

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I Bought about 8 of the Risk Game sets at Toys R Us for $12 USD each and Cannibalized the lot for NiE….I spray painted all of them white with Kyrlon Flat White and painted the pieces the correct colors for all the powers….you had to fudge a bit with some of the nationalities since you only have one generic pose for Inf/Cav/Art, ie., the shakos were obviously wrong for some nations, etc…worked out pretty well and dressed the game up nicely…I found that the thin white flat coat of paint did not obscure the figs at all…

Thanks a lot gentlemen.

Here are a couple of pics…very basic paint job…

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Grey could also be Prussian reserve regiments, which would work as allies of the green Russians for 1813/14…