Last week the lead pile was renewed with the arrival of a parcel containing ten Spanish infantry battalions and a cavalry regiment.
The first unit to pass through the uniform store is the first battalion Guadalajara Regiment. As with the other regiments in this collection the first battalion of the regiment contains all of the grenadiers for the regiment.
It is my intention for this regiment, and another one that follows, that the troops are in mixed civilian and uniform dress. This allows me to use these units in the latter part of the early period (1805-1808) when the area was particularly poorly supplied with uniforms and through into the middle period (1809-1811). However, while there are two codes for the fusiliers in mixed uniform there is only the full uniform for the grenadiers. My solution here was to add some trousers over the gaiters of about half the figures with some green stuff and to paint some of the gaitered figures with trousers of varying colours and with some patches painted on them.
Next up will be a light infantry unit for 1805-1808 and a line unit in round hats for 1808-1809.
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