Uniforming the Past: 3eme Ligne Fusilier Uniform Plates

Taking inspiration from Mont-Saint-Jean uniform plates website http://centjours.mont-saint-jean.com/unitesFRGde.php and JC Miniatures Blog http://jcminiatures.blogspot.com/2006/06/coming-soon-updated-wargame-plates.html who have given me countless hours of reading and editing, I decided to make my own for 1809. This is the first of the French fusilier companies of the 3eme Ligne in 1809. I tried to give as much detail as possible and show the multiple uniforms that are recorded for the regiment. We are given great primary source detail from the Otto Manuscript of the regiment during the years of 1807-1808 in its white uniforms and blue surtouts for the officers. Also, Colonel Laurent Schobert had an order book that described many of the uniforms that his regiment wore. If you are able to read french this website will give you some exert of his orders! Also, on the same website we are lucky enough to have a death certificate of a soldier named fusilier Culet who died in the temporary hospital in Prenzlow where the regiment had its cantonments. Fusilier Culet served in the 2nd Company, 2nd Battalion of the 3rd Ligne. On the back of his death certificate, his clothing and equipment are described! Here is a link to the website sehri.forumactif.com/t541-3e-de-ligne

Some of the major sources I used for this are the Otto Manuscript, Petit Soldats de Strasbourg, Rigo Le Plumet Plates, Lucien Rousselot and Napoleon's Line Infantry from Osprey publishing and the sehriforum. I am going to add some plates from the Petit Soldats de Strasbourg that have given me a lot of inspiration to finish these plates.