28mm French SYW: Perry SYW Cavalry?

 I have long moaned about the paucity of decent Frenh cavalry figures. My fall back position, until Black Hussar gets around to this subject, would have been Front Rank but I really don't like their French cavalry figures although there is a choice of good mounted officers.

Imagine my surprise when I saw that the Perry's had added to their AWI range some Spanish colonial dragoons. Looking closely at the figures on the pictures I though they looked possible. On the plus side, Perry do great horses and, if the headgear was really a tricorne, then maybe they would work.

The command needs some work unless you are happy for the officers to have gorgets, which they did not. Also you will have to remove the epaulettes but that is easy. Horses have bound tails but I can live with that. I had to fill in the front of the bugler's coat.

Rank and File: arrangement of musket straps is odd but acceptable. The worst thing is that they have gaiters not boots but you can hardly notice. The tricorne is a good shape!

I leave you to judge what you think. Personally I think they are fine and there is an easy solution for those wearing bearskins. Get the separate bearskin heads from Black Hussar (a choice of three styles) and replace the Perry ones.

As I also live in Aquitaine it's appropriate that this should be my first cavalry regiment.

15mm Classical Indians (King Porus): Archers (2)

 

28mm Hessians: 1760-63 Stirn Converged Grenadiers Battalion

These are the grenadiers of the two musketeer regiments I have already painted, IR5 and IR8.

28mm French SYW: 12 pdr battery Black Hussar figures

I'm very impressed with the gun models from Black Hussar. I have painted the guns in their SYW blue colour scheme. In the WAS they sported dark-red carriages.

 

15mm Classical Indians (King Porus): Archers (1)

 

The first four archer units of 20 planned. Yes, that is going to be a hailstorm of arrows.

28mm Hessians: 1760-63 Regiment Mansbach 2nd BTN

Here is the second battalion of this regiment and the last picture shows both battalions together. On my desk at the moment is the converged grenadier battalion with those from Wutginau and Mansbach,

Here is the second battalion of this regiment and the last picture shows both battalions together. On my desk at the moment is the converged grenadier battalion with those from Wutginau and Mansbach,

15mm Classical Indians (King Porus): Elephants escorts

 

I have done 6 escorts for each of the 20 elephants painted but as they take up so much space I am just showing you two sets. Three figures on each side of the elephants to keep away pesky enemy skirmishers.