"Top Five Napoleonic-Era Uniforms?" Topic

What are your favorites?

Full dress Highlanders. None of that trews nonsense.

Prussian Landwehr
French Chasseur a Cheval
Russian Infantry with bicorne
Saxe Weimar line
Austrians in kaskett

Grenadiers a cheval
Polish lancers
Chasseur a cheval
All full dress uniforms of course

Russian Cuirassiers.

French Carabiniers in Copper Breastplate
French Third Hussars
French Drum Majors
British Light Infantry Officer with Pelisse
Scottish Highland Officer revue order full kilt and plaid

ML

French line infantry (the lowly fusilier, backbone of the Grande Armee)
French cuirassiers
Grenadiers a cheval
Russian Grenadiers
Russian Cuirassiers

"Full dress Highlanders. None of that trews nonsense."

Trews are for yeomanry and girly Lowlanders!

Austrian Grenadiers
French Cuirassier
Austrian Line in Helmet
Britsh Line in Belgiac Shako
French Line (1809-1812)
Brunswick (Infantry, Hussars, Avante Garde)

Brunswick Jaegers
Cameron Highlanders (the most fun plaid to paint!)
1st Polish Lancers
8th Belgian Hussars
British Royal Horse Artillery

Barvarian Infantry

French Carabiniers in Copper Breastplate (with white cape/cloak, what the heck)
Austrian line w helmet
Bavarian infantry
Austrian artillery w bicorne
Full dress Highlanders.

Dutch grenadiers of the guard 1806-1810
French carabieneers 1810-1815
French death hussars (early revolution)
early spanish light infantry (in tarletons)
french infantry 1792 in tarleton

French Hussars,
Old Guard,
Guard Cavalry
Oh Hell any French Cavalry.
VR
James Mattes

British Line – it's colorful and NOT blue
Bavarian Line
Highlanders of course
Kingdom of Italy – pick a unit. Same reason as Brit line

Polish Lancers
Consular Guard
Nassau infantry
Neapolitan grenadiers

Any French Uniform.

Highlanders

Pavlovski Grenadiers

Régiment de chevaux-légers du grand-duc de Berg in their white and amaranth (short lived) uniforms

Austrian line in helmets

Brunswick uhlans

Grenadiers de la vieille garde (and their Dutch brothers in white)

Empress dragoons, especially the cornet

In no particular order:

Prussian 1st Lieb Hussars Officer

French Light Infantry w/colpack, blue breeches & half-gaiters

Baden Hussars Officer or Senior NCO – full dress (or sub'd with French Guard Chasseur a Cheval officer in full dress)

95th Rifles Officer w/pelisse & campaign trouser w/dogs teeth leather reinforcments

1st Polish Lancers Officer – full dress

If all else fails, anything Murat was wearing on a flamboyant day.

Berg Chevau-Legers (in amaranth)

Polish Lancers of the Guard

Carabiniers (in copper)

Any hussar, any army

Johnson's Kentucky Mounted Volunteers

Rick

Anything Neapolitan – Just love Amaranth…

Berthier's Neufchatel Battalion – the "Canaries"
Highlanders – Black Watch or Argyll & Sutherland Regiments
Berg Lancers in white and pink uniforms
Pavlov Grenadiers
95th or 60th Rifles

Jim

(P.S. I have all but the Berg Lancers in my 25mm Napoleonic forces)

Russians in greatcoats …… even I can paint them :-)

Polish Lancers of the Guard
French Dragoons
Legion Irlandais
Bataillon Neufchatel
US Infantry, 1810 uniform (the poster said Napoleonic era, not wars, so don't restart that discussion)

Polish Guard Lancers
Austrian Hussars (pretty much any regiment)
British Horse Artillery
French Cuirassiers
Highlanders in kilts

Anything Ottoman
French Imperial Guarde Grenadiers
Grenadiers a cheval
Prussian Hussars
Austrian Grenzers

French Carabinier Cavalry post1809
Bavarian Line (love the blue)
Austrian Grendiers
Austriran Line in Helmets
Russian Cuirassiers

That was tougher than I thought. I like so many differnt uniforms including the Wurttemburger's in helmets, Brit Highlanders, Prussian Dragoons, Brunswick Leib…

Erik

Provisional Croatian Regiments
Prussian III/9. Reserve Infantry Regiment
Lutzow Freikorps
KGL Lights
Hanoverian Bttlns in Spring 1813 before they got Brit uniforms
Vistula Lancers

Bavarian line

Austrian line (with '98 helmet)

Wurttemburg Line (see a pattern, here?)

Austrian cuirassier

Russian Grenadiers

Honerable mention: any of Spain's Crayola regiments.

Those are knee-jerk faves. It IS hard to narrow it down.

Early Russian Hussars – Soum regiment. Yellow dolman, turquoise pelisse, white cloth shabraque with turquoise trim and monogram. Gay like Paris in the spring. I just finished 12 of them in 1/72. Awesome.

I like black Russian uniforms ….

1st volunteer horse cossack regiment of the Saint-Petersburg militia, named "Death-Bringers"
- black litwa-style coats and half-caftans and campaign pants with collars, cuffs and pant-leg stripes in dark sky blue, white/silver hussar style cords on the chest and white/silver metalwork, blue/white hussar sash, black leatherwork and black edged blue saddleclothes, black lances (all-blue pennats for the 5th or commander's hundred or colonel Yakhontov's hundred) ), low shako covered in short bearskin shako with white/silver trim including a death's head and cross-bones
- this was a Saint-Petersburg city (not region) regiment, founded by a Portuguese resident trader/trade-representative, "retired" lieutenant Don Joaquim-Antônio Gonçalves de Oliveira, and incorporating many foreigners

Aleksandriyvskiy hussar regiment
- black dolman, pelisse and dress pants (grey campaign pants), red collars and cuffs, white/silver cords and metalwork, red/white hussar sash, black trimmed red sabretaches and saddleclothes, black lances with pennants white over (likely) red and black by battalion, the various leather items a mix of red, white and black

Graf Saltykov's Moscow hussar regiment – later taken in to the army as the Irkutskiy hussar regiment
- as per the Aleksandriyvskiy hussars exccept : (i) raspberry replaces red, (ii) yellow/gold replaces white/silver, (iii) the dress pants are raspberry, and (iv) issue or use of lances not confirmed
- initially a privately raised regiment, paid for by the Saltykov family

I also like white Russians ….
Cuirassiers, Chevalier-Guards and Horse-Guards

And maybe off-white Russians (if they were a bit faded) ….
(from Pavel's reign) Yelisavetgradskiy hussar regiment
-straw-colored pelisse and dolman, red collar and cuffs, white pants, metalwork yellow/gold; red/white hussar sash, straw-colored sabertache.

Amicalement.

U.S. Infantry
Bavarian Infantry (love those helmets)
Austrian Infantry in Helmets
British Infantry Stovepipe Hats
Russians in Summer Dress

Guard Dutch 'Red' Lancers
Guard Mameluks
Austrian Hussars (any)
Russian Uhlans (any)
Saxon Garde du Corps

(I bascially like the cavarly)

Not a Napoleonic gamer.

Jason
Stafford, VA

Whatever I'm painting at the time.

Grenadier a Cheval of the Guard: not too flashy, but very intimidating.

Russian Cuirassiers: see above. And remember kids, real Cuirassiers wore white.

For flash and colour: the Russian Pavlograd Hussar officer's uniform. Dark green with teal facings and plenty of gold lace makes a sharp combination.

Anything Westphalian in full dress. Gorgeous.

Lancers de Berg (full dress uniform) or even the field uniform
Polish Lancers of the Guard
Irish Legion
Highlanders
Neapolitan infantry (lots of white with nice pink)

1st Guard chevaux leger lancers (Polish lancers)
Guard Chasseurs a cheval
French 5th Hussars
Marines of the Guard (the Leipzig full dress look, "Hussars of the Sea"!)

Collective forces:-
* Bavarian infantry
* The Black Brunswick Corps
* French dragoons
* Prussian cavalry (1806)
* Italian army ("green period")

Individual units:-
* Royal Scots Greys
* Berg lancers
* Neuchatel battalion
* Royal Horse Artillery
* French Carabiniers (post-1810)

1) Chasseur a cheval of the Guard in full dress
2) Polish lancers of the Guard (especially with white for officers in full dress)
3) Mamelukes of the Guard
4) Swiss regiments – especially the 3rd (black facings?) – like Brits, but better
5) Bavarian infantry – if in a nice light blue (may not be historical, but I like it)

Pavlov Grenadiers.
Just about all Hussars.

1. Nassau infantry.
2. Brunswicker light infantry
3. British line
4. Spanish light infantry in the green jacket with crested helmet.
5. British light dragoons In 1812 pattern uniforms.

Honourable mentions to Russian marines, Bavarians, 1815 Belgians
US regulars, Neopolitan guard hussars, Neufchatel and Vistula Poles.

French Light Infantry as shown in Rene Norths iconic work.
Had to use warhammer ork paint to get a matching shade.

Pity the format didnt allow for footnotes, would love to know what hed been smoking when he did that.

95th Rifles
British line
French Imperial Guarde Grenadiers
Spanish light infantry in the green jacket with crested helmet.
Bavarians

Blue / crimson Polish-style lancer uniforms;
The Prussian Line / Garde uniform, especially the Fusiliers with their black equipment;
Hussars in furry caps, especially the British in blue, but with honourable mention for the Hesse-Homburg regiment parrot colours;
British line infantry, who manage to be simple and ridiculously complicated at the same time;
Spanish grenadiers with the mother of all fancy hats.

French Carabiniers (cavalry)
French guard horse chasseurs
British Rifles (especially the officers)
Britsh RHA
Austrian fusiliers in helmets

Most generals.

- Mamelukes of the Guard
- Austrian "Hungarian" Grenadiers
- Royal Horse Artillery
- Pavlov Grenadiers
- Any Hussars in furry caps

No full dress unigrams for me, thank you.
Highlanders [92nd]
Royal Scots Grays
Late Prussian Hussars
95th Rifles
US Rifle Regt in hunting shirts.