Tuesday 9 April 2019

First Battalion, Jaen Regiment

The latest unit in the Spanish collection is this First Battalion, Jaen Regiment, with their black facings.



Again this is going to be a unit of mixed military and civilian dress, so the Grenadiers of this battalion have been given pants in a mix of colours.




19 comments:

  1. Seasoned campaigners, no doubt. The mix of leg wear and condition is evidence of their time in service. Nice!

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    1. I am not quite sure if it represents the length of service or simply the fact that original uniforms were cheaply made and replacements hard to come by!

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  2. I like the campaign trouser look!

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    1. I resisted the urge to add full trousers, using green stuff, as I did for the last battalion, making the assumption that the battalion tailors were able to keep the grenadiers in reasonable dress albeit multi-coloured.

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  3. Very nicel. The green-striped trousers are my favourite. Not that I’d personally want to wear them, though.

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    1. True I couldn't see you in stripes...I reckon your are more of a plaid man!

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    2. With a pipe. I must seriously think about doing that, if only to wind up the wife and children.

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    3. You could really push the boat out and go for the smoking jacket and matching tie and handkerchief, topped off with the deerstalker hat.

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  4. Another nicely "different" unit Mark!

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    1. And there is another one in the painting table waiting for its bases to be finished tomorrow.

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  5. Great looking campaign dressed unit! Lovely flags too!
    Best Iain

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    1. And two more similarly attired chaps on the way...flags are by Adolfo Ramos.

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    2. Lovely looking toys... it’s nice to see your collection of haberdashery growing so fast.

      All the best. Aly

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    3. Off course I meant Millinery... or more accurately Military Millinery

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    4. Thanks Aly. I am getting rather keen to see this lot on the table.

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  6. Spanish do look great don't they! Nice job Mark

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    1. Yes I like them very much. They will probably loose every battle they fight, but they will look good doing it!

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  7. Good morning, I would like to tell you two errors in these figures, those are not the colors worn by the JaĂ©n regiment, the color was dark blue, and the flag was not that, the flag is of the AragĂ³n regiment. In this link you can http://flags.adolforamos.com/index.php?id_productÅ›185&controllerÅ›product&id_langÅ›er the flag of Reg. JaĂ©n . On this sheet you will see the uniform at number 30.
    http://miniaturasmilitaresalfonscanovas.blogspot.com/2015/06/el-ejercito-y-la-armada-2-parte-en-1808.html.
    Best regards and good work.

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    1. Thank you Juan for your comments and the interesting links. When I went to paint this unit I had conflicting information on the facings and because I wanted to use it from 1800 through to 1809, I chose the reference for 1802 colours, that gave them as black with red cuffs. The flag is a result of an error in ordering...you will find that several regiments have wrong flags...an error I can live with.

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