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Post by paintdog on Apr 6, 2020 13:01:04 GMT
Just finished.
My Unreliable Saxon grenadiers:  And I needed another Prussian ADC. This one in the uniform of a Jager zu Pferde with a green coat to add some colour: 
A mixture of HaT & Zvesda figures.
donald
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Post by Deleted on Apr 6, 2020 23:59:21 GMT
They look great Donald. Surely those schmick uniforms (aka your fine paint job) should increase their morale/discipline or whatever the factor is?!
I'm ever keen on mixing figures (manufacturers and/or poses). You have even managed to hide the many joins on those Zvezda figures, top stuff. Some figure manufacturers seem to want to covert us into model builders!
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Post by paintdog on Apr 7, 2020 0:39:09 GMT
Hi, James, as you would know, nearly the entire Saxon army capitulated to Fred. the G. who promptly enrolled them as Prussians. I believe they weren't thrilled. The musketeer units became fusiliers (with the daft, half-sized mitre) but the combined grenadier units kept their mitres. History records a patchy record of their battlefield prowess.I believe the somewhat overated Fred. (my personsl opinion: don't sue me)disbanded all but one of the Grenadier battalions. At any rate, the uniforms didn't seem to matter....& as a Napoleonic expert, you'd be well aware of the Neapolitan troops under Murat: beautifully uniformed, indifferently performed. Lots of filler in the arm joints. I don't love Zvesda quite as much as some do (number & type of poses, size etc are all problematic) & working on these 'armless chaps hasn't exactly endeared me any further.
Thank goodness for HaT's SYW Prussians for providing command figures & also lots of spare three cornered hats I'm using to convert said Zvesda Grenadiers into Prussian Garrison regiments. I have, of course, quite a lot of totally HaT Prussian infantry units.
But the BIG QUESTION: where are the HaT SYW cavalry?  ?
donald
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