Prussian cuirassiers, 1st Regiment

Uniform details and flag taken from the Greenwood and Ball/Garrison booklet 'Uniforms of the Seven Years War'. A slightly enlarged second edition  is available from 18th Century Press and has nothing to do with me!

Anyway, finally got round to finishing a Cuirassier regiment:

Two companies made up a squadron. Or it could representing two of the five squadrons in the regiment.

The standard is from page 11 of  the booklet.

7PC1 Cuirassier officer

7PC2 Cuirassier

7PC3 Trumpeter. The trim is silver with two lines alternating yellow and red. There should be some blue triangles in there somewhere but I didn't bother with them...

7PC4 Standard bearer. No idea what colour the ribbon should be, probably red, but I've just done it the same as the trumpeter's trim.

So with a squadron of cavalry finished, perhaps I'll be able to speed up a bit...

Up to mould 150...

 Had quite a few moulds made in the last year or so, partly to make up for the 'missing' year when Pete wasn't able to do any. 

Anyway, the latist batch has arrived and takes the total up to 150 moulds I've had made since I bought Garrison. Compare that to Paul Ashton's comment on TMP the year before I bought Garrison:

'In actual fact the moulds were put together by a dyslxic schizophrenic with only 1, 2 or 3 figures the same in each mould ... and then labelled and indexed incorrectly. They are a nightmare to cast and cost us more to produce then our newer well-made moulds of our own miniatures but we do it as we don't want to see the ranges die. Remaking the moulds is not an option.'

Worth pointing out that I still tend to do 1, 2 or 3 figures the same in each mould - it's cost! On the other hand, most of the figures are usually from the same range... And obviously remaking moulds is very much an option. Over the years the moulds have paid for themselves and are still in credit!

For some reason there were two mouldcodes that I missed. So this one fills one of the gaps! Lots of rossbows, a couple of Byzantine standards, some (Burgundian?) shields and that little dot thing between the halberds/shields - the bell from a Seleucid elephant!

The other 'missing' code. It just happens to be right next to the other 7YW moulds, which is a happy coincidence... Prussian cuirassiers and dragoons plus hussar code 7YC3. 7YW cavlary are proving a bit of a pain to find/identify - well, at least the French and Austrians are.

So back to the end of the list... 25mm French Napoleonic heavy cavalry missing a trumpeter and standard bearer. 

And here are some of the French line light cavalry - light lancers, hussars and Chasseurs a Cheval.

Byzantine light infantry, Basil and a couple of Trapezitoi

And... 150. Byzantine cavalry horses. Apart from a couple of riders all the Byzantine range is now on new moulds.

So, next target would be 200 moulds...

Unfinished business...

 Not all the armies I started got very far....

Russian Dragoons. I use Russian cavalry as Prussians as well - the heavies seem to be just about identical to each other.

 

A battalion of Bavarians...

... includes officer and standard bearer

And a piece of artillery.

Plus an Austrian gun

I painted two guns but I've only got one crew. The various artillery crews feature a lot of head swap conversions.

I cast and assembled quite a few artillery pieces in anticipation of doing more and bigger armies!

20mm British Napoleonic army Review

Another army that is a battalion light... note I don't have the 'official' codes for some of these - they don't appear in any of my catalogues - I simply found the originals lying around mixed in with other figures and masters!

Life Guards

BN3 Grenadiers marching

British artillery with a Rose gun.

BN8 Line infantry marching with BN4 officer

Dragoons