These figures are a simple conversion from the standard Perry miniatures Swedish infantry. I am pretty pleased with these and it doesnt seem unrealistic to convert enough figures for a couple of battalions, which is what I would need.
The paints used are: Coat d’arms Royal Blue, Cda Blood Red, Vallejo Gold Brown (sash), Cda Tanned Flesh and Cda Flesh.
The regiment’s hat was distinctive and as you can see below, it was quite different from the guards’ hats that I discussed in my last post. The good thing about this hat is that its shape is so similar to the standard Swedish infantry hat that its is fairly easy to convert the figures. All you really need to do is remove some of the part on the left hand side where the hat has a fold and brass cordon (which the grenadier hat doesnt have) and then add the plume with a roll of green stuff which can then easily be given some texture with a sculpting tool.
Livgrenadjärregementet apparently had serious problems with the supply of uniforms in 1809. Not all soldiers had received the new (1806) uniform, presumably some would have worn the older 1792 version, which had a white collar and white trousers. Those uniforms were certainly very worn by that time. A few soldiers had the new greatcoats, as seen in the illustration above. Whether all soldiers had the new hat, I do not know. Some newly arrived recruits and reserves would have worn civilian clothes. All of this means that it might be reasonable to (for example) paint some soldiers with white, grey or brown trousers or even mix in one or two with civilian clothes.
In contemporary depictions, the confusion is no less apparent. Adelborg has a drawn a soldier wearing the 1806 uniform with the 1807 hat. The trousers lack the pattern and side stripe though. Also, that drawing may have been made later (even in 1814). The grenadiers did after all have 6 battalions, in what was in practice two regiments, and these units may well have had different uniforms. This was indeed the case later on (1816), when they were officially divided into the 1st and 2nd grenadier regiments.
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