Dragoni Francesi delle Guerre Napoleoniche, 1804–1810

Recensione dei Figurini Italeri in Scala 1:72

Readers of Military Miniatures Magazine voted for dragoni francesi as their second choice of the Wishlist 98. The list was forwarded to popular manufacturers e due of them, Italeri e HäT Industrie, have since produced a set of dragoni francesi. Reason enough to keep sending suggestions for the M3 Wishlist.

Contenuto

17 Riders in 9 Poses – 25 mm pari a 180 cm di altezza

• Colonel
• Ufficiale (2)
• Eagle-bearer
• Trombettiere
• Dragone con Musket (3)
• Dragone con Sabre (10)

17 Horses in 5 Poses – 22 mm equal 15.6 Hands

Valutazione

• Detail e casting quality is of the high standard we have come to expect of Italeri. Some mould lines will have to be removed prima di dipingere.
• Useful poses. All of the soldatini are charging, with the horsehair tails of their elmi a cresta e they will look very attractive when deployed in formation. There is still scope for a set of soldatini di dragoni in stationary poses e dismounted. Dragoni were often used for picked duty which can be an interesting subject of a diorama.
• The uniform is of the pre-1810 pattern, con long tails. This may be changed to the 1810-1812 uniform style by cutting the tails back so that the false turnbacks are square at the lower edge.

• The pockets on the turnbacks are horizontal, making the soldatini suitable for only one half of the reggimenti francesi. The other regiments had vertical pockets.
• The guidon is incorrect, it should have an inscription in the central diamond, not an imperial eagle.
• Il trombettiere, eagle-bearer, one of the officers, ed all of the troopers are wearing cavalleria carbine belts, but there are no dragoni muskets attached to them. The trooper holding the musket in his hand is correct, except for the fact that he is galloping. This figure would have been much more suitable as a skirmisher o cavalleria picket, mounted on a stationary o walking horse. If muskets are not sculpted on the soldatini directly, manufacturers should at least provide spare weapons which may be glued o soldered to the soldatini later.
• Most of the horses are modelled con the cloth pistol covers over the sheepskin saddle cover. The other way around would be more appropriate.
• The grenade badge on the shabraque is correct for officers. The troopers carried the regimental number in the same place. Prudentamente remove the grenade badge e paint regimental numbers in the corner of the shabraque.
• The horses are modelled in the wrong gait, as is typical of Italeri cavalleria until now. One horse is almost in a proper galloping pose, but its left hoof is incorrectly tilted backwards, not ready to be placed on the ground. One can only advise the sculptor to study Revell’s superb cavalieri svedesi, consult one of numerous books on the subject, e show the master soldatini to someone familiar con horses.

Utilizzo Storico

• Italian Dragoni della Guardia, 1806–1814
• Italian Dragoni, 1806–1814
• Dragoni della Guardia imperiale francese, 1806–1810
• Dragoni francesi in the pre-1810 uniform, e con horizontal pockets 1804–1810

Conversioni Possibili

• Dragoni francesi, 1810–1812
• Dragoni della Guardia imperiale francese, 1810–1815
• Guide del quartiere generale francese
• Guardia d’onore, Italian Royal Guard 1806-1815

Italeri’s dragoni francesi are a welcome addition to the growing range of Napoleonic cavalleria now available in scala 1:72. As new troop types appear on the market it may be possible one day to raise complete wargame armies in this scale.

Italeri Soldatini

Bibliografia

• Knötel-Sieg: Handbuch der Uniformkunde, pp. 168-169
• Funcken, L. & F.: L’Uniforme et les Armes des Soldats du Premier Empire, pp. 51-53
• Uniforms delle Guerre Napoleoniche in Colour 1796–1814, Jack Cassin-Scott, Plate 19
• Haythornthwaite, Philip: Uniforms of 1812, Plates 1, 11, 18
• Haythornthwaite, Philip: Uniforms of Waterloo in Colour, plate 55
• Allevi, Piersergio: Soldatini, p. 148

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Dragoni Francesi delle Guerre Napoleoniche

– Pubblicato: 13.05.1999 – Aggiornato: 18.08.2010
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