Friday, 21 March 2025

Austrian Kuirassiers - Perry 28mm

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!
Thanks for looking. That's twenty units of cavalry for the Austrians now, totalling 248 figures.
Six Kuirassier, six Dragoon/Chevauleger, six Hussar, and two Uhlan units. 
More Napoleonics next Friday. :)

10 comments:

  1. Fantastic work
    I hope to complete my Austrian cavalry division this year
    Cheers
    Matt

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  2. Very nice work, great addition to your Austrian horde!

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  3. Great stuff Mark. Austrian cuirassiers always look smart and you have done a terrific job on them.

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  4. They look superb, Mark.
    Are both units with black facings?
    I'm a color variety fanatic myself, and couldn't resist red, green, dark and light blue myself!

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    1. Thanks Peter , yes already done those colours on previous units of Austrian Kuirssiers, so it was black for these ones!

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