I'm looking at starting a new period, namely FPW. Ageing eyesight means uniforms have to be simpler to paint these days than say Napoleonic. Prussians, blue tunic grey trousers, French, blue tunic white trousers should be ok.  I've some Osprey uniform books on the way but until they arrive can someone tell me for both Prussians/Allies and the French. Did each battalion of a regiment carry a flag or was it one per regiment?. Can't wait also for the WWII range to come out. Again simple to paint. Except for the SS camouflage, oakleaf pattern etc. (bugger) as Captain Darling once said. Many thanks in advance for all your replies.

Nigel   

Thanks Mollinary. I can decide now if I want 1 base to represent a battalion or a regiment. French with white trousers. Like Captain Mainwaring I was waiting to see if anyone would spot that. That was a typo, meant to type red.

Nigel

You can give zouaves and Turcos white trousers in the summer uniform. Also I have seen contemporary drawings showing Prussians wearing white trousers in August 1870, but here I would stick with grey.

I have just upgraded(?) my computer operating system from Snow Leopard to Yosemite. Wierdly this is the only forum I can now get into with ease. Currently I am locked out of my other three favourites which no longer recognise me and claim my email address belongs to someone else. Very frustrating!!! 

After a bit of fannying about I'm back into two of them, and will get back into the third soon, but only after changing my email address and identity. Thought I'd just flag this up, so to speak.

Don't beat yourself up Mollinary. Saarbrucken and Spicheren are only a couple of miles apart.

Following on from my original post of Sheldon's "Fun with Flags". In a French regiment 1 bttn carried the eagle whilst subsequent bttns carried a plain coloured fannion. Were these colours the same as was carried during the last years of the Napoleonic period. ie white for the 2nd bttn, red for the 3rd?.

Perhaps a question for Peter now or someone who has bought this. The FPW French Imperial Army pack. The units of formed infantry, are these in greatcoats (FPF04) or in tunics (FPF06)?. or can you choose which ones you want?. Also are the Zouves all skirmishing or are there some formed?.

Nigel

Thanks Mollinary. Excellent. I'll give it some thought but I'll probably go for 1 base per regiment. So each base will have the eagle. But good to know about the fanion colours just in case I go for the 1 base per bttn.  

Nigel

The same question again for the Republican Army pack. Are the line infantry in greatcoat or tunic? Thanks once again.

Nigel

You'll have to contact Peter over that. Certainly line infantry should be in greatcoat with epaulettes, but I'm surprised there is no mention of chasseurs in the army pack, who could equally be represented as formed and/or skirmishing in tunic with epaulettes. I would imagine the zouaves come as both formed and skirmishing, but unfortunately this pack does seem to be geared to 1st Corps. The others (bar the guard) did not feature zouaves or Turcos, but every corps had chasseurs.