Having finished the 3rd, really had to do the 1st!
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| Colour scheme is pretty spectacular |
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| Horses cast well apart from the reins - not going to worry about that! |
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| Almost didn't post this picture - it's not the most impressive view. |
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| The 1st followed by the 3rd - think that should be enough German Hussars for now. |
At this point I'm really going to have to stop the 42mm figures and get down to finishing the 20mm Prussian Landwehr!
I've noticed that Tango has posted this in the Napoleonic Board on TMP so thought it would be a good idea to add a bit more to this.... the figure is based on a Knotel print of a Prussian unit in the German army 'Lieb-Husaren Regiment No. 1' in 1903, homecast from a Berliner Zinnfiguren mould and part of my Great War in England 1897 collection that is based on the 1894 book by Le Queux - in that book, Germany was on our side, in his later book 'The Invasion of 1910' they were the enemy.
They look excellent Rob. The black uniforms are very smart.
ReplyDeleteAgreed. A lot better than the black on black of some others for painting!
DeleteVery fine war games units, both. You make the Prussian horse look good!
ReplyDeleteI have a pretty standard way of painting horses - unshaded brown body with drybrushed black going up the legs, black mane and tail. Normally I include a white blaze and 2-3 white stockings, just didn't on these.
DeleteHuzzah for the hussars!
ReplyDeleteLove the Totenkopf lance pennons, but I think I'd have given them red cuffs with white braid to key in with the black red and white of the shabraque and its lovely wolfs teeth.
ReplyDeleteAgree it would probably have looked better but in this case reality got in the way... the Knotel print didn't show red cuffs...
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