"1815 Brunswick Artillery Uniforms" Topic

So I'm painting up some Brunswicker Artillery for a 100 Days game coming up in the summer and I'm stuck with the plate on the Centjours site.

The site displays a grey inseeem and pants bottom for them. However, I cannot find any other plate in a book or the web that supports this grey inseem and bottom.

I'm by no means an expert on Brunswick uniforms but I'm a little confused as to if I should paint as displayed on Centjours or not.

Here's a picture of the plate:

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I think it is just the blackened leather insert to deal with the riding of horses. Leather wears longer compared to corse cloth. The plate is for the horse artillery uniform.

I agree, the inner, grayish portion, is the leather inlay common with horse artillery and cavalry. I think they just needed to offset the color somewhat to make it distinctive.
Usually blackened leather…

Thanks for the insight on what the inseem would be. At this point, does one paint it or omit it like virtually all other figs I've been painted up, not to mention all of the other plates I've seen.

The Prussian Horse artillery had the same inserts.

You can represent the leather insets by different shading of the black or a semi-gloss varnish finish. I have tried both and the results are quite pleasing.

I cannot think of Horse Artillery of any country at Waterloo anyway that did not provide overalls with the leather reinforcements. Thye are generally modelled as such in 28mm whether French (Line or Guard), Prussian, Allied. Only difference is the tan/brown colour for leather of RHA and KGL by 1815.

Increase the contrast of highlights for the inserts to best show black leather against black cotton material for Brunswickers

Remember you should be using French AnXI artillery pieces not British. Actually they were Westphalian M1811 but this was a version of the French system. They were purchased after Leipzig.
Stephen

Which makes you think what a logistic nightmare was presented on the Brussels to Charleroi Chausee 16-18th June 1815…….Netherlands artillery to supply too! (or were they roughly the same? I do know much transition at the time)