For his birthday present this year, Andy requested that I paint him up some 15mm Old Glory miniatures - 2 battalions of the renowned Pavlovsk Grenadiers. This Russian regiment was famous during the Napoleonic wars for its retention of the old-fashioned 'mitre' caps. Tsar Alexnader had allowed the Pavlovsk regiment to keep their caps after their bravery at the Battle of Friedland in 1807. The photo below shows the Grenadiers in action at Kliastitzi during the 1812 campaign (charging from the right and attacking Swiss infantry in Napoleon's army on the left). In 1813 the regiment was admitted to the Russian Guard.
Although many (though not all of the sources) suggest that only the rank
and file wore the mitre caps, with the officers wearing the usual bicornes or shakos, these Old Glory figures show all alike in the mitres, which if
nothing else works artistically.
The figures are painted in acrylics and (unusually for me, but to match Andy's large collection) are varnished in matt.
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| I particularly like the 'wounded in action' figure |
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| Scale reference |
