Bits and Pieces
Vistula Legion Lancers
Recently completed another unit of wandering Poles for my French Napoleonic Peninsular army.
These figures are from Warlord Games so do pose a couple of problems. They are based on the French Lancer plastics figures with metal heads and as such for the purist the jackets have the incorrect turnback’s for the Polish Lancers. Also I wanted to paint these as the Vistula Legion (pre 1811) and there is debate about when they went from the Polish Shako to the Czapka.
Talking of the Czapka there is also differing information regarding the colours and the years they changed was the top yellow or dark blue? Finally there is also conflicting information regarding the lance pennant! Some say it is red over white, while others say it is white over red!
In the end after consulting my library I went with the uniform details of a book I have had for over forty years that is Almark’s French Napoleonic Lancer Regiments (originally published in 1971!!).
Source Material
Uniform Plate
Lancer Regiment
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