French Guard Marines

Well this is a colourful lot! I had been dreading painting these as I knew it was going to have to be careful slow job. In reality it was a careful slow job. I wasn’t sure how orange to go on the trimmings for these, but the majority of sources were saying “orange”. They also are shown in illustrations with braid on the trousers at the front. I skipped this as I thought I would not get it done well and sometimes less is more. When it comes to flags it seems that there are plenty of options. 19th century witnesses seemed to have claimed to have seen all manner of configurations. I went with the eagle and a flag from Maverick Models that had cool looking anchor on it. Stuart Wilson of Maverick Models was really helpful and offers the flag in any size you want. I think I should have gone a bit smaller than the 15mm height I ordered. I think it’s more pennant style. I also went for the “effect” flag style, on reflection I think the plain would have been better, but this is personal taste.