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Legion d'Antibes with Foundry French Crimean with Shako and added plume, Carabineri Esteri with the same figs. Officers from various Perrys War of the Triple Alliance command sets and Perry French Guns. I will do a review of the whole Papal Army soon.
Regards Ken
The Yarkshire Gamer
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As you rightly, mentioned the need of some other key units for your project, take into account that the Pontifical Army soldiers, especially during the 1867 Campaign, sported various combinations of uniforms..all inspired by French but even with a lot of campaign dress options
some of the following picts are extremely rare and, i suppose, still unpublished but they depict the real aspect of the Pope's soldiers..
PS: probably you're aware that the all French recruited Légion d'Antibes was officially called , in order to shadow her real origin, "Legione Romana"
lastly ..do you know that the swiss based Cibo's Little dudes make some nice Ponifical Subjects..unfortunatly the picts are 'nt the best ones but i can assure you that they are nice minis and even compatible with average 28mm
https://www.ciboslittledudes.com/collections/risorgimento-papal-statesame could be said for Mirliton..of which the 90% of my Papal Army is based:
https://www.mirliton.it/historical-25-28mm/italian-indipendence-wars/papal-stateOut of the "cacciatori in campaign dress" i made both my cacciatori and foreign carabineers which are very similar ..
In practice with the "cacciatore" in short jacket and soft French type képi you can make both "Cacciatori", "Carabinieri" and "Antibes Legion" with red trousers..the white havelock or ear cover was used by every Pontifical soldier on Campaign during summer..including Zouaves...take into account that today's, 7 th of septmber here in Rome (not far from Mentana) i had a free day and went in the park for jogging and i can assure you that i really suffered without my hat ....BUT..the 3 of november of 1867 in Mentana was a rainy and cold day
...and, lastly, in case you 'll opt for Mirliton minis don't forget a couple of Papal Gendarmes and the mini representing general Kanzler
PS: the Pontifical Gendarmes that still exist and still behave like a sort of Political Constabulary for the Pope..( that's reason why i prefer the more fashionable and decent Swiss Guard) were, during the period in question, so hatred by the Roman populace that they were called "Sbirri" or worst "Sturacessi" that could be translated as "toileteers" or "toilet snakers"