42mm Hussars 'finished'

These are the ones I bought cheap a couple of years ago.

Finally got round to looking at the last two units...

 

I haven't done anything other than go over paint loss so they are still pretty basic.

This lot are obviously Russian! The horses had quite a bit of paint loss so I went over them with chocolate brown... not quite a match and looked patchy. Gloss over the top and on the models you can barely see a difference - but the photos look a lot worse!

Meanwhile, after a week or so of doing very little on the wargames front finally got some casting done - hopefully I'll manage a bit more over the next few days. I really need to get some of the 20mm Napoleonics done!

German 1st Hussars

Having finished the 3rd, really had to do the 1st!

Colour scheme is pretty spectacular

Horses cast well apart from the reins - not going to worry about that!

Almost didn't post this picture - it's not the most impressive view.

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.

Rose 20mm Hussars

Thought I'd posted these in the past but can't find them - a comment re  Rose 20mm cavalry came up on the Old Metal Detector blog which made me look for them.