WIP Critique Sardinian Grenadier 1741

[MarquisMini]

Great start Colin, and certainly an unusual subject in your workbench.
This is going to be another fun thread to watch, looking forward to see the progress.
All the best

 

[tiberius57]

Excellent start, my friend! We have a fantastic community. Amazing how many reference materials surface when good man are working like one.
Will follow with great interest. Please keep records on the used mixes. Thanks a lot!
Cheers,
Zeno

 

[Paul Kernan]

Keep 'em coming Colin

 

[ChaosCossack]

Thanks everyone for their kind words and support and especially those who dug in and came up with the uniform plates... so very much appreciated!!! That's what makes PF great!!!!

Update...

Worked on three colours... white of the linen shirt (just started for now, will finish it off when the coat is done 100%), dark blue of the coat and an even darker blue for the small clothes.
Started with the undercoats of the two blues...

Coat: Scale75 Small Clothes:
Base- Navy blue + Walnut Base- Deep blue + Walnut
HL- Base + Mediteranean blue HL- Base + Mediteranean blue
Shade- Base + Deep blue Shade- Base + Black

Various stages of highlight and shadow...


Both blues 90% done. I'll revisit them once the arms and equipment are all attached...


Thanx for looking in... will have more progress to report tomorrow.

Colin

 

[peedee]

Colin this is great stuff !
looking forward to the next installment
Paul

 

[fabrizio1969]

follow you,very nice

 

[franceso sbarile]

As I promised before ...

 

[billyturnip]

Excellent Franceso, what book is that from please?

Roger.

 

[franceso sbarile]

LE REGIE TRUPPE SARDE 1750/1775 edited by Editrice Militare Italiana
Cheers

 

[jai]

Dear Francesco you have preceded

recommended book
This is the cover

I think you are just on ebay



[ATTACH = full] 210.382 [/ attach]

 

[billyturnip]

LE REGIE TRUPPE SARDE 1750/1775 edited by Editrice Militare Italiana
Cheers

Thank you Franceso.

 

[franceso sbarile]

Dear Francesco you have preceded

recommended book
This is the cover

I think you are just on ebay



[ATTACH = full] 210.382 [/ attach]

Yes Highly recommended book... Dear Giorgio I cann't compete with your huge library.
Hope see you soon

 

[Viking Bob]

Wow that is an excellent illustration
Colin your painting is coming along too.
Regards

 

[ChaosCossack]

Thanks guys, still some fine tuning to do on the blues... especially shadows around the equipment that isn't there yet.

I'm going with the colour scheme on the plate I posted at the top of the thread... do any of you guys with the libraries know what regiment it is depicting?

Colin

 

[franceso sbarile]

I'm going with the colour scheme on the plate I posted at the top of the thread... do any of you guys with the libraries know what regiment it is depicting?

If the colors are Yellow with a white tassel it should be a "Tortona" regiment. Tortona is a town at the boundary between Piemonte and Lombardia in north of Italy. It was a roman town (Dhertona).
Cheers
Francesco

 

[jai]

Tortona provincial regiment was formed in 1751 ...

If you want to play a grenadier around the year 1741 I will propose a grenadier of
Kalbermatten participant regiment at the battle of Assietta https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Assietta
Hence the order of battle of the Austro Piedmontese
http://vial.jean.free.fr/new_npi/revues_npi/19_2001/npi_1901/19_190747_podbf.htm

The "tail" of the beret the grenadiers of
Kalbermatten was blue with white edges

 

[ChaosCossack]

Thanks jai, of course, I already painted the damn bag yellow It took four coats of paint to get the solid yellow too... now I have to paint it blue?

Colin

 

[jai]

Thanks jai, of course, I already painted the damn bag yellow It took four coats of paint to get the solid yellow too... now I have to paint it blue?

Colin

In those years the army of Savoy was modified often creating new departments or changing only the name .... I have to try. I believe that keeping the yellow hat and jacket lapels you could create a "foreign regiment" ... I think the Swiss Rietmann ... stay on hold

 

[franceso sbarile]

Thanks to everybody for such an intersting discussion.
Cheers
Francesco

 

[jai]

First I have to thank you, to solve the question I needed a book, Uniformi piemontesi 1671 1798 , book I was looking for 10 years ... Today I discovered that the small library of a small town not far from home has a copy. ..
then taking the car are gone to retrieve the book ... and now I can read it.

Good news for you and bad for Chronos Miniatures.
You can keep the yellow "almond" (the tail of the hat) because that type of headdress was in use after 1751 then you can do the regiment Tortona as recommended by Francesco.
In 1741 it was in use a smaller hat ..
my scanner does not work today .... try again later.

You can too regimental Sardinia more famous than the Tortona.

for sardinia sleeves they are in Chamois and the tail is yellow