Week 5 of Friday backlog posting. Following on from last weeks Austrian Chevauleger, here are 32 Austrian Kuirassiers, once again from the newish Austrian Cavalry plastic box sets. Plus the free metal Colonel that comes if you buy 3 or more boxes.
This is the same great kit that makes Dragoons and Chevaulegers with the armoured torso being used for the Kuirassiers. Austrian Kuirassier armour was black, but I've painted them with a dark gunmetal to give them a slight metallic sheen and compensate for the scale and lighting issues (i.e. common need to lighten colours as scale become smaller).
A closer look at the pewter metal colonel. Nice to have another command figure, and one too where the sword isn't in one of those extended prone to breakage positions!
