miscellaneous
Spanish flags
Barcena's Division arriving at
Vitoria (1813)
spanish infantry 1812
There are not today commercial plastics figures 1/72 scale (20 mm)
depicting the Spanish infantry of 1812-1813. The only way to build those
units is by means of a conversion, or painting some similar available
figures.
In those times the Spanish army rely heavily on British supplies (see the
excelent book 'Spanish Army of the Napoleonic Wars (3) 1812-1815'.
Met-at-Arms Series No. 334. Osprey Publishing. 1999), so the supplied
uniforms are based upon a simplified version of the british infantry
uniform. The more distinctive item of these Britsh-made uniforms was the
shako, that was truncated-conical in shape . After a little help from
several members of Yahoo groups, I concluded that the more viable
alternatives were the Revell Riflemen and the HAT British Light Infantry
which wear a similar shako (and not the 'belgian shako' used by the
British and their Allies in Waterloo). In addition, some figures from
the ESCI British Infantry were also used with the front plaque removed.
The colour scheme is based upon the illustrations appearing in the book
cited above, that does not resolve the main problem of the Spanish
infantry uniforms of 1813-1814: the colour of the coat. The Spanish
Reglament of 1811 does not specify (maybe intentionally) the colour of
the coat, so there are two posibilities: dark blue or sky blue. From the
British shipment notes we can deduce that uniforms of both colours were
sent to Spain, so about a 33% of the figures were painted with blue sky
uniforms and the rest with dark blue uniforms. The facings were dark
blue for the sky blue uniforms, and sky blue and red for the dark blue
uniforms.
The flags were downloaded from the following Internet page:
http://www.warflag.com/flags/napoleon/napspain.shtml
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