Friday again and week 4 of the backlog posting. Here are two regiments of Austrian Chevauleger, this time in the green coat, and for something a bit different I've also done these without the combs on their helmets.
This is the "new" plastic Austrian Cavalry set from Perry that lets you make Chevauleger, Dragoons or Cuirassiers. Wish this had come out before I had already painted up 8 such units in the more expensive pewter already, but better late than never! :)
The plumes were apparently left off sometimes by lighter cavalry especially, which I didn't realise until Perry released this set.
This means they just have the brass helmet holder into which the comb fitted. Not as flashy, but more practical for the sort of scouting work light cavalry were doing I suppose!
Thanks for looking and more next week :)
More Austrian cavalry in white with the usual plumes can be found here.
They look great Mark. The Perry plastics are beautiful and the parts fit together nicely, although I still prefer to snip off a few 'worms' and get stuck in rather than having to spend a couple or hours gluing a box of figures together.
ReplyDeleteThat yellow looks great and very sharp. Is it a GW shade over a brown undercoat?
They are very nice indeed, great work on them.
ReplyDeleteThey look great. I waffled on the combs vs the full crest, they look good either way.
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