Home › Forums › Horse and Musket › Napoleonic › French Young Guard Cavalry 1813-14 (AB Figures)

Viewing 8 posts - 1 through 8 (of 8 total)
  • Author
    Posts
  • 15/01/2022 at 13:43 #167142
    Avatar photoJemima Fawr
    Participant

    Here’s a blog post about some cavalry I recently painted for the Young Guard of 1813-14 (AB Figures):

    “La Garde au Feu!”: My 15mm French Imperial Guard (Part 8: Young Guard Cavalry)

    My wargames blog: http://www.jemimafawr.co.uk/

    06/03/2022 at 12:40 #169618
    Avatar photoSir Able
    Participant

    They look fantastic

    06/03/2022 at 14:08 #169623
    Avatar photowillz
    Participant

    Very nice models, lovely painted.

    12/03/2022 at 18:05 #169976
    Avatar photoAdmiralHawke
    Participant

    Fabulous. Love your justification for how you needed these units. 😉

    14/03/2022 at 07:29 #170031
    Avatar photoMark O
    Participant

    Brilliant and a very good read there too, will save for reference, it is certainly confusing trying to sort these out for this era!!

    My Napoleonics Blog: https://chasseuracheval.blogspot.com/
    My Other Hordes Blog: https://hordesofthings.blogspot.com/

    14/03/2022 at 07:57 #170035
    Avatar photoJemima Fawr
    Participant

    Thanks fellas!

    Of course I NEED them… I can handle it… Can’t I…?

    My wargames blog: http://www.jemimafawr.co.uk/

    08/04/2022 at 20:11 #171191
    Avatar photoOotKust
    Participant
    Jemima Fawr wrote:

    Of course I NEED them… I can handle it… Can’t I…?

    Hello and thanks for letting me play!

    JF, since I cannot see a real name, has the recent furor caused by PLD research/ writings  affected your painting/ units much?

    With the sharing of actual cloth samples, I had been ‘restructuring’ my trumpetters as I rebuild units of my 25mm Minifigs. THEN I get his Guard Cavalry book and find that what I believed is untrue- that a dark yellow trim/ decoration was also used by both senior Guard regiments in addition to aurore!

    However I think the biggest error being made in the English speaking world is assumption the bleu-de-ciel is just plain ‘sky blue’. Clearly to the French it is not!

    So as above I feel comfortable with a darker colour now for ‘la garde’  trompettes and will field, using some customised figures, two refurbished regiments this year.

    regards dave

    08/04/2022 at 21:55 #171199
    Avatar photoOotKust
    Participant

    BTW, since you mentioned on your blog, the Mamelukes Compagnie was always classed as (ie paid as the Chasseurs) – Old Guard… even if the number of genuine ‘foreign’ components was dwindling.

    though I don’t like the usage of these terms as they abstract the units somewhat.

    More on PLD- Gardes d’Honneur he states were never ‘in the garde’, which I wonder about. Is that because there are no records [of them] in the Garde archives???

    cheers d

  • Author
    Posts
Viewing 8 posts - 1 through 8 (of 8 total)
  • You must be logged in to reply to this topic.