8th Neapolitan Line Infantry Regiment - complete

With the addition of the last musician of the month, I can show you a complete Napoleonic infantry battalion, belonging to the 8th Neapolitan Line, white uniforms with pink garment (as original as a Berg Cavalry regiment).

Here you are:

Each company is represented by a set of three figures, so that we have a complete battalion with 18 figures: 4 fusiliers companies, 1 voltigeurs company and 1 grenadiers company.

Voltigeurs

1st company, with officer, drummer an standard bearer

2nd company

3rd company

4th company

Grenadiers company

 The organization of that unit is the same as in the French line infantry. A few more pictures:

The minis are a mix of several manufacturers: mainly 1812 French Hät (Line and Light, Officer from the Young Guard set), Accurate and Newline Design.

The Grenadiers are conversions, using Hät and Accurate bodies, with Esci grenadiers hats and backpacks.

Hope you like them ! 

Musician of the month: drummer of the 8th Neapolitan Line

Hi everyone!

I hope you haven't forgotten this blog :) I know it is a very long time since my last post, but there are several reasons:
1. Summer: I prefer to live outside than to look at a screen
2. Summer: I prefer to travel than to paint in the cellar
3. Socializing: I prefer to talk to people than to my plastic figures
4. Garden: I had a few things to do in the garden (and it's not over...)
5. In spite of the summer and the holidays (in southern Italy, see here - in french, sorry), I also had a lot of work

So after a long break, I come back to this blog with some newly painted figures, but there is only one on display today: the musician of the month!

Our musician is a drummer in the 8th Neapolitan line infantry regiment during the Napoleonic era, and I must admit that he was a real pain to paint. Documentation first: not so easy to find, I used several out-of-date sources, hoping to be accurate - once again, your wise comments are welcome, dear scholar readers.
Then the painting itself: it is difficult to paint after a 5 months break, and the uniform of this drummer is complicated: white with pink garments, and red and white chequered motif everywhere! I had to throw my brush away after that.

Well, this is the drummer:

 You will notice that this is not a plastic figure, but a converted Newline Design Nassau drummer.

Next week (yes, I promise, the pictures are already taken), I will show you the regiment to which this little guy belongs.

As usual, hope you like him :)

8th Neapolitan Line Regiment

As I already explained in another post, I sometimes paint some Napoleonic troops (but it doesn't last long :)). And I try to paint regiments that you don't see every day, so I used Hät 1812 french fusiliers to represent a Neapolitan regiment, the 8th Line, with pink facing colors.

These troops were involved in the Peninsula campaign. Poor men... No wonder the desertion rate was very high.

I took the pictures this morning, before the rain came back, it was necessary to have a sunny light to evoke the dry spanish climate.

All minis by Hät, except for the flag bearer by Accurate (flag poorly printed from an image found on the net, sadly I don't remember where, so sorry for the credit, correct me if you can).

EDIT: I just found the source of the flag, I printed it from www.warflag.com, so its author is Alan Pendlebury. Thank you Alan !