Austrian Chevauleger - Perry 28mm

Friday again and week 4 of the backlog posting. Here are two regiments of Austrian Chevauleger, this time in the green coat, and for something a bit different I've also done these without the combs on their helmets. 

This is the "new" plastic Austrian Cavalry set from Perry that lets you make Chevauleger, Dragoons or Cuirassiers. Wish this had come out before I had already painted up 8 such units in the more expensive pewter already, but better late than never! :)

 

The plumes were apparently left off sometimes by lighter cavalry especially, which I didn't realise until Perry released this set.

This means they just have the brass helmet holder into which the comb fitted. Not as flashy, but more practical for the sort of scouting work light cavalry were doing I suppose!

Thanks for looking and more next week :)

More Austrian cavalry in white with the usual plumes can be found here.

French Hussars 2 - Perry 28mm

Another Friday and week 3 of the backlog posting! Next up is two units of French Hussars, the 7th and 11th regiments. Perry kits once more. Hussars are typically the most challenging of Napoleonic units to paint due to all the lace, but the uniforms are impressive. The first units I posted to this blog were the 5th and 9th Hussars back in 2013, so it's taken some time to get around to adding more French Hussars. I also seem to have a thing for the odd numbered regiments!

11th Hussars with an attractive dark blue uniform with white trim on the pelisse, and red plumes.

And the 7th Hussars, with their green dolman and pelisse and red trousers, and red over white plume.

Thanks for looking and more Napoleonics next Friday :)

And in the meantime if you want to see even more Hussars, there are also my six Austrian regiments!

French Line Infantry - Perry 28mm

Friday backlog post number two, is another 144 French Line Infantry. These are four boxes of the Perry's new(ish) 1807-14 French Infantry. I much prefer these to their 1815 set, as they are all in dress uniform rather than having a smattering of dreary looking greatcoats! Also I think the quality is better, for example more options with the officers.

This is a great set. I also painted up the skirmishers in these sets as Tirailleurs previously, as I already had enough skirmishers for my needs.

These are done with one company per base, with Grenadiers in bearskins, and Voltigeurs long plumed shakos.

With four boxes that is enough to detach flank companies and make a unit each of combined Voltigeurs and Grenadiers. This is my usual approach now of doing these in four units of 36, which can become six units of 24 for games where this is the standard size.

Tempted to get another four boxes for Neapolitans! We will see...
Thanks all, and more from the backlog will be posted next Friday.