Isla Leon Militia

More preparation for Barrosa. I'd bought figures to do another metal battalion for my Napoleonics (adding a unit a month has seen me steadily rise to a position of having a respectable little army now in it's own right), and the game was the spur to research units in the field at the time.

I plumped for the regiment De Isla Leon, as a good match for my figures:
Now it turns out these chaps were at Albuera, a later battle in the same campaign, and were recruited from Cadiz itself - the raison d'etre for the Barrosa battle. So if not actually there themselves, as suitable force to appear in spirit.

The models as more often than not for me, are Front Rank, I love the fact they still let you buy individual models, no messing around with this three packs of foot and one of command to make a unit of 24 men leaving you with 6 spare models nonsense!

My brown is closer to the modern recreations of the cloth colour than the print, which has very likely suffered considerable changes of shade since it was done. A description I found of the regiment indicates white leather cross-belts, typical of the period anyway.

Some touches, like the standard, drummer and officers details, have to be hypothesised. But overall a pleasing and simple job.