We're the Bavarian cheveauleger uniforms blue or green during the FPW. For some reason I thought they were blue and just started painting a unit. However I'm seeing images on Mr. Google showing them in green coats. If they're blue, I'm happy. If they're green, I'm not repainting them  

All green I believe, more on bavarian units at this site......

http://www.kaisersbunker.com/gtp/New/chev0.htm

I've linked to the chev page but there's a whole site to look over.

Ry

All Green I am afraid! 

Green.

Well I'll be a  mortar puss bucket. 

I'm too far into painting them to fix them. They will have to be the "Mad King's Own Cheveauleger"

I knew I should have done my research BEFORE painting them.

Quote from: Shecky on 19 June 2013, 01:12:15 PM

I knew I should have done my research BEFORE painting them.

Tends to be most effective that way.

I do so much research that I rarely get anything painted though so swings and rounabouts maybe.

Saxon Reiters were in cornflower (ie Bavarian) blue, pass them off as a regiment of ectopic Saxons.

You could get away with them as Saxons, but not Bavarians. The Bavarian uhlans also wore green but the Bavarian cuirassiers did wear cornflower blue.

I fixed them. They're now wearing green jackets. 

Quote from: Shecky on 19 June 2013, 10:42:44 PM
I fixed them. They're now wearing green jackets. 

And Green Trousers?

Mollinary

Do we dare mention collar, cuffs and piping?

I went with plaid trousers, aquamarine cuffs and hot pink boots! 

I found and image to use as a model so I think I'm good for now. I hadn't painted any FPW figures in about 9 months but decided to start reducing my lead pile as I've grown tired of painting 28mm figures for Saga. I was so eager to paint 10mm again that I forgot to check the proper uniform colors. I had based a brigade of infantry and a regiment of cavalry - started to paint the corn flower blue infantry and kept with the same color when I got to the cavalry. Then I started thinking, "they don't look like cheveauleger" and thus this thread was started.

Quote from: Shecky on 20 June 2013, 07:49:23 PM
I went with plaid trousers, aquamarine cuffs and hot pink boots! 

Please post pics soonest. Those guys would have to fight really hard, or run really quick!    //

Mollinary

Is this why in landlocked Bavaria they say, 'Ooh, soldier!'

Well, they're a doomed unit. I finished painting all the Bavarians last night and prepared to base them today. As I was going to pick up one group of figures on craft sticks, I accidentally bumped one stick holding the cheveauleger. They fell on the tile floor and now I have a number of figures with chipped paint and slightly flattned crests.