I finished the figures for this unit a few days ago, but have been working on the flags. I was very pleased with the king’s colors (livfana) I managed to paint. Unfortunately however, when finished it became clear that it was much larger than the company colors that I had done a long time ago. They just dont match, and the company colors were not very carefully done anyway. So, and this is a first, I do actually think that I have to scrap the old flag and make a new one. That hurts of course, because these flags do take some time and effort. Id say that painting two flags takes about the same amount of time as painting half the figures of a battalion (admittedly, these grey uniformed finnish infantry are quite quickly done).
The scan of the 1766 flag has been uploaded to the flags post I did a while back and this time the scan was actually relatively good.
I should add that the officer and drummer in this unit were made from a pack of Perrys’ Spanish infantry, with heads swapped for Swedish ones. They have plastrons on their uniform, as the Swedish m/1802 uniform had. Whether Tavastehus had retained the plastron or not, I dont know – but I do know that some soldiers in the Finnish army still wore jackets with plastrons in 1808, although most of them probably didnt. Some had (like the Nyland regt., apparently) received the new 1807 uniform, but most wore the m/1806, either newly made or re-sewn from old 1802 jackets.
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