Just to prove I'm still capable of painting figures as well as making buildings, here are a few squadrons of French Napoleonic hussars I completed this month.
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| 1st Hussars |
These are Italeri French Hussars (#6008), which are very nice figures and easily match the
dragoons I painted recently. The figures come in a variety of uniform combinations, with some sporting campaign overalls, with or without pelisse worn or slung.
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| 2nd Hussars |
I decided to make six bases and paint each pair as a different
regiment. So, to get a variety of uniforms I settled on painting the
1st, 2nd and 6th regiments. The box comes with 17 figures, so to make up the last squadron I had to add a figure from somewhere else to get to a round 18 figures and therefore six bases of three.
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| 6th Hussars |
The extra figure is wearing a busby, thus masquerading as an elite company trooper, and is actually the officer from the Italeri Guard Horse Artillery set (#6018), the rest of which may feature in a future post.
With these hussars, I'm nearly done with 20mm French Napoleonic cavalry, although I did get a box of Italeri French Light Cavalry #6080 (i.e. Chasseurs a Cheval) a few months ago, which as a cavalry type were more numerous and more commonly deployed than hussars. So I may get around to painting them next year, once I've got a few other projects out of the way first.
2 comments:
Great looking cavalry, well done!
Nicely done. That trooper from the Italeri horse artillery set really does come in useful doesn't he. A lot of these figures are really easy to head/arm/horse swap for all kinds of, as yet unobtainable stuff. Keep up the good work.
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