The trooper of the 24th is shown in the
Otto painting without a shako front-
plate. This absence is confirmed by
both a contemporary Martinet plate
and a drawing by Albrecht Adam –
and further endorsed by Rousselot. I
cut the front plates off my Pendraken
minis with a bit of a grumble as I’d
made things harder for myself by
having already started painting them. I
also followed the Otto painting’s less
than usual arrangement of cockade colours for my troopers. The trooper and trumpeter’s plumes in the Otto
paintings are definitely a red that is meant to be different from the red-orange of the regiment’s facing colour.
Rousselot, however, does not replicate this but painted his trooper of the 24th with a capucine plume. It could
be that the Otto painting depicts a trooper of the second company of the first squadron who may have had
red plumes to
match their
status
alongside the
regiment’s
compagnie
d’elite. We’ll
never know.
The Otto
trooper’s pom-
pom appears
blue but it has
been claimed
that it is green.
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