Chasseurs a Cheval

This is the Italeri 'French light cavalry' box, very useful, if not the prettiest. With the horsemen painted previously (the Zvezda conversions) I can field a brigade of three four-base (6 figure) units.

French cavalry

Six more cuirassiers and a rag-tag band of Chasseurs a Cheval are today's topic. The CAC are Zvezda artillery train drivers, with carbines and swords added, on Italeri/Waterloo1815 horses, plus an aide from the Zvezda French staff set. The cuirassiers are all from the Zvezda box.

JWI Green Royal Guard

You can inspect the previous paint job here. This was done in enamels, while not particularly bad I felt the need to improve as these figures deserve the effort.

 Have painted all 19 of them but here are only half a dozen representing the whole lot.

Instead of Umber shade I used a Vallejo black wash this time, have to work on the dilution (a lot more thinned version was applied to the Samurai I'm currently painting). 

JWI Besberg Uhlans

18x Zvezda figs, originally to be Napoleonic Polish uhlans. The previous painting was with enamels and one of the first when I applied washes effectively (made some vain attempts before with oils). 

The figures are neat and paint up rather well. The same can be told about horses. I painted all a brown-ish color (still not entirely clear on the terminology of horse colours).

Zvezda Polish Winged Hussars

Post is picture heavy. 

I've been working on these for three days straight - the masterpiece of my armies. At some places the painting could have been better but I am extremely proud of the outcome.

Reorganizing the cavalry

I just added some cardboard slices to the cavalry, this way I don't have to move them individually. I base them on a piece of 4x1,5 or 3,5x1,5cm green decor paper (a simple method), so now these bigger bases can take 10 of them. The material is pizza box, the bases are 16x5 and 16x5,5cm with 0,5cm sides. Some miss a fourth side so there is more space to make some order, making a 5cm length.

Above, my 'cavalry drawer' with 9 squadrons.

And a few more, these ones are displayed.