plutarch 64 | 09 Feb 2016 8:21 a.m. PST |
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Timmo uk | 09 Feb 2016 9:25 a.m. PST |
They look great but wouldn't they have been wearing the stove pipe shako by the time they were part of the Light Division in 1813? Not that it matters really either way. |
Frederick | 09 Feb 2016 10:26 a.m. PST |
Nice looking unit – notably as they are 1/72! |
Quiles | 09 Feb 2016 11:21 a.m. PST |
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plutarch 64 | 09 Feb 2016 3:52 p.m. PST |
Thanks for the comments. They almost definitely would have been wearing the stovepipe in 1813 Timmo, but the rest of the army is of the barretina vintage so these have been done to match. I'd love to know what the 17th were doing around 1809/10, but can't find any record of them in Oman's OOBs around that time… |
Tyler326 | 09 Feb 2016 5:09 p.m. PST |
Not 1/72. Theses are Front Rank 28MM. Looking great. |
Timmo uk | 10 Feb 2016 3:13 a.m. PST |
I'm sure I've read that they were very inexperienced when they joined the Light Division and there was some dissent that such an untried unit was placed within an elite formation. Were they a garrison unit perhaps? I'm thinking about adding the Guard brigade from the First division to give my army some elite. I like the idea of doing them in the late Belgic shako so they look different to the rest of my army but really I should do them in the stove pipe so they, like your Portuguese, look good for earlier on. Can't decide… Will you be adding Spanish? I'd love to see what you would do with them. |
janner | 10 Feb 2016 9:45 a.m. PST |
Very fine |
GurKhan | 10 Feb 2016 9:52 a.m. PST |
Nice looking unit – notably as they are 1/72! I'm not the only one who read the title as "Portuguese 1/72nd Elves", then. |
plutarch 64 | 10 Feb 2016 8:37 p.m. PST |
It was all I could do to stop myself typing "Elvis" GurKhan. I did complete some Spanish a year and a half or so ago Timmo, which can be seen here: link Very interesting what you say about the 17th's reception, although with two seasoned units of Cacadores to greet them it was probably inevitable. The Belgic or barretina shako was the one they started the war in, with the stovepipe being rolled out from 1809 onwards (although I'd like to think there were still a few running around in barretinas until at least the end of 1810/beginning of 1811). I always found this to be one of the ironies in that after the Portuguese were switching to the Stovepipe, many British units started switching to the Belgic. |
plutarch 64 | 10 Feb 2016 8:43 p.m. PST |
And these are 28mm, but I think I may have confused people with their regimental number, which is the 17th regiment, being the second raised from Elvas (the first being the 5th Regiment). |
Timmo uk | 11 Feb 2016 7:01 a.m. PST |
Your Spanish look fabulous, and so many of them as well. Yes odd that the British went for the Belgic as the Portuguese were going for the stovepipe. I wonder how many British regiments actually got the Belgic in the Peninsula. I know the supply chain was pretty robust but how important were hats when food and ammunition were surely the priorities. |
plutarch 64 | 11 Feb 2016 10:26 p.m. PST |
From memory I think the first started receiving them around 1812, but it would be interesting to know how many regiments had them by 1814, and how many were left in the stovepipe. |