"French legere 1808-13 painting guide?" Topic

I'm about to release my French legere sets in standard shakos but pre-Bardin uniforms, so around 1808-13. Chasseurs wear normal pompons and elites wear the tall plume. They wear trousers because they are in the field, but not their overcoats. Everyone wears epaulettes and the coat with short tails.

The painter needs a comprehensive colour painting source -- an image or images rather than a laundry list, preferably. My Google fu hasn't come up with anything -- any suggestions? Thanks.

How about:

link

The Legere images are resized…you can save them and they expand well.

Ed

Also Rousselot:

Thanks guys, very helpful. Did the chasseur companies use the same pompon colours as ligne battalions?

Also, the coats at the top of the second plate above -- are they, left to right, carabiniers, chasseurs, voltigeurs and officers?

Khurasanminiatures

You have listed them in the correct order.
Cheers

Ian

Khurasan,

In theory, yes same as line. Retaining green for chasseur companies from earlier regulations continued to persist.

Try these: link

khurusan, it's too bad that you have to shut down your entire website when you need to catch up on orders. There's no way to disable the ordering function while still allowing people to browse your offerings?

If there were, I'd do that.

Do the numbers on the plates correspond to regiments?

No, the Roisselot plates came with text ln English & French separate from the plates. The numbers would correlate to that text.

For pom-poms, see :

TMP link

Note that the traditional use of green pompoms for the chaaseurs dated back to 1786.

But remember, French bataillons fielded equalized "pelotons" for combat, so there can be a little mixing of pompom colors on a given base.

- Sasha