These are as near enough to painting napoleonics as I want to get...the belts etc..it near drove me mad. Enorm respect to those of you whose main interest is napoleonics...I wouldn´t have the patience.
I´ve mixed a bit of the box art with pics I found on the web...the cuffs for example. On the box art they have a white line around the white cuff, but most pics on the web show just a white cuff. The bag at the front. To try and get a cross over in colour between horse and rider I painted them brown..they should be blue but it ended up looking a bit too much.
The plastron fronted tunic, although the plastron was turned back to hide the white panel I liked the look of it.
As they are for my Khandibarian colonials, they will be rebranded the "Queens III Lancers" (Painting 17L on the bedding roll, proved beyond me) it´s not really necessary to go the whole "historical mile".
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| Without any conversion the set delivers 8 bod variants...not bad at all :-D |
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| Bugler and waiting lancer. |
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| My second favourite pose from the set...Captn S.Piers. The head had to be twisted slightly to align it along his arm. One thing.....none of the bods has a revolver holster....and there is a bit of excess plastic that needs removing from the back of the revolver. |
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| My favourite pose..lancer leaning forward to attack. One small problem..but I overlooked it so I could add a bit more colour..the pennons (lance flags) originally designed to upset enemy horses, would have been rolled in a canvas bag during active service / battle. |
I would have liked a horse in full gallop but apart from a bit of extra plastic between the rear legs of one or two of the horses, it´s a
very nice set.
