"28mm Mexican Flank Companies" Topic

I have been looking at different Alamo and Mexican-American War ranges. One thing that appears to be missing from man y is flank companies for the infantry regiments (for the grenadier or voltiger/rifle companies.

As I understood it, these were usually formed into ad-hoc battalions of converged elites.

My question is two-fold:

1.) were distinctions not worn in the field/abolished? That seems unlikely, but might explain their being missing in ranges.

2.) If some company does make flank companies (or more than one does), who does?

Thanking the throbbing brain that is TMP in advance.

It has been awhile since I've done any reading on the subject, but, for the MAW anyway, wasn't the flamk company distinction just a different colored pom-pom, and maybe a different shako plate?

Boot Hill Miniatures have Cazadores in 28mm scale armed with baker rifles and sword bayonets for the Alamo period.

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I understand the Baker rifle was in short supply and many of the Cazadore/light infantry were armed exactly the same as the soldados with a Brown Bess musket.

As the 79thPA says the only real uniform difference in 1836 was a shako plate and different coloured pompom, so basic soldados can be painted up with green pompoms as Cazadores or red pompoms for Grenados.

For the later Mexican-American War period the different colored pompoms and epaulettes are still being used along with a single yellow stripe/flash on each sleeve between the elbow and cuff.
For the elite units such as the light infantry regiments there were two such stripes on each sleeve, if I recall my research correctly from a few years ago.

Hope this helps,
Tom

Thanks Tom. That confirms what I have read. In a number of the books I see the epaulettes. However, unless I have missed something, all of the 25mm figures seem to just be for the center companies with no figures for the grenadier and voltiger companies (and they call the light companies by a lot of names). Usually when they have chasseur figures, they are for the light battalions and often with rifles or muskets and no bayonet (not really a grenadier).