Author Topic: campaign dress, parade dress or both. URGENT (Read 4189 times)

olicana · « **on:** May 21, 2015, 08:06:34 PM »

Just about to order my French for the Peninsular War. Yes, OK, I get it that campaign dress is more accurate but, Wow that parade dress makes them look like right sexy buggers. I wouldn't mix parade and campaign in a unit, but should I do one style or both.

As to it being urgent, this French order is part of the first commitment to the period. Typically I tie myself in with a biggie. This one (including some odds and sods for a SYW completion) will be worth about £2000. So it is lots of units at once. I need to decide within the next 24 hours.

Please help,

James

Lowtardog · « **Reply #1 on:** May 21, 2015, 08:29:36 PM »

Wow, thats some order

, whose figures are you buying? I did have french army and mixed them in to be honest, using fronk rank and outpost froggies I kept grenadiers looking a little more uniform than others

AlyMorrison · « **Reply #2 on:** May 21, 2015, 08:56:10 PM »

Hi James...

I have always said that if I did full on Nopoleonics it would be full dress all the way... It's just sexy...

.....
Mmmmmmmm! Shako cords and tassels ....

olicana · « **Reply #3 on:** May 21, 2015, 08:58:41 PM »

Front Rank figures, deal agreed.

Phil Robinson · « **Reply #4 on:** May 21, 2015, 09:03:14 PM »

Agree with Aly, why cover up all those glorious uniforms in drab greatcoats, shako covers etc.

olicana · « **Reply #5 on:** May 21, 2015, 09:06:21 PM »

Hi Aly,

I seem to remember us saying that in Napoleonics lies the end of ambition. I'm hoping to get in and out with a few thousand for the Peninsular - there are so many other things I want to do that I dearly hope our conversation, though a bit tongue in cheek, was wide of the mark. I aim to spend no more than four years painting this stuff. After that, who knows.

AlyMorrison · « **Reply #6 on:** May 21, 2015, 09:11:29 PM »

James...

Limit yourself don't get over ambitious ....

Wait a minute.........

What the hell am I saying!

Jeff965 · « **Reply #7 on:** May 21, 2015, 09:37:48 PM »

I like the idea of different types of uniform depending on morale grade. For instance elites in full dress, average troops in campaign dress (like habit veste and overalls) and poor troops in greatcoats and forage caps.
That way you get to paint all the different types and you can instantly recognise their morale grade when playing on the table.

Captain Canada · « **Reply #8 on:** May 21, 2015, 09:49:02 PM »

I have done as Jeff suggests. Also you can go by Brigade - Lets you know which unit is from which brigade readily.

whill4 · « **Reply #9 on:** May 21, 2015, 09:51:04 PM »

I prefer parade dress. The uniforms are what first drew me to the period.

Anna Elizabeth · « **Reply #10 on:** May 21, 2015, 09:52:33 PM »

I like Jeff's idea, too.

Harry Faversham · « **Reply #11 on:** May 21, 2015, 10:49:08 PM »

Full dress uniform and bags o' swank!

Lowtardog · « **Reply #12 on:** May 21, 2015, 10:54:19 PM »

Quote from: Anna Elizabeth on May 21, 2015, 09:52:33 PM

I like Jeff's idea, too.

Yup way I tended to go, for named regiment such as swiss irish go full dress

Gunner Dunbar · « **Reply #13 on:** May 21, 2015, 10:55:09 PM »

Personally I would do all campaign dress, and paint them the dirtier the better, make them as different individually from each other as you can, but have that common thread of the blue tunic tying them all together.

Lowtardog · « **Reply #14 on:** May 21, 2015, 11:02:31 PM »

Quote from: Gunner Dunbar on May 21, 2015, 10:55:09 PM

Personally I would do all campaign dress, and paint them the dirtier the better, make them as different individually from each other as you can, but have that common thread of the blue tunic tying them all together.

Worth a lookhttp://www.outpostwargameservices.co.uk/

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