French Hussars Painted

A nice little weekend project. I have finally painted the set of four French Hussars in the colours of the 8th Regiment:

French Line Dragoons

These figures are very similar to the French Empress Dragoons, although they lack the shoulder cords and the horse furniture is less elaborate:

French Empress Dragoon - from an eagle eyed friend!

To my surprise one afternoon I received an urgent email from an online friend - whom I shall call ' The Mysterious Goya', saying that a hoard of figures, that were almost certainly all Ros 25mm, had been spotted on a trade stand at a show. The figures were purchased on my behalf and turned up in the post a few days later. What a nice surprise when I opened the package. An excellent haul that included several cavalry figures and an artillery team that I had given up hope of ever finding. Indeed, I was not even sure that they had been manufactured.

I will post pictures as I examine them in more detail.

First up is an example from a group of four (they came in packs of four cavalry) French Empress Dragoons of the Guard. I am assuming that these are guard dragoons (as opposed to line dragoons) by the lanyards and cords depicted on the right shoulder and the chaperons doubles on the saddle. In fact this is a horse that I have not seen before either, which is marked N7, Ros 1976.

Chasseur a Cheval

This is a figure that I had not seen before and spotted a few weeks back on Ebay. He came with another 8, although some had broken plumes and were rather forlorn. I have given him a new paint job to brighten him up!. The horse is identical to the Line Lancer horse: