It's been more than two weeks, I'm ashamed to say, since I promised to post my first battle report about the Prussian Expeditionary Force, and it's still not ready. The main reason I haven't done it is that I've been far too busy painting. There's nothing like photo editing, it seems, to drive one back to the painting table.
He's a little more My Little Pony-ish than I'd intended, but I decided to keep him as he is because he's actually not too far off the pastel shade of pink depicted in the famous Martinet print.
Presented below is what I've been up to. He is a vintage Hinton Hunt FN 352: Eugène de Beauharnais, uniformed as a Colonel of the Chasseurs a Cheval, on horse FN 11.
The regiment he will command, of course, is to be the Chasseurs à Cheval of the Imperial Guard. It was high time, I thought, that the Essex Hussar ceased his photobombing and got a proper job; and besides, the Emperor need's a regiment with at least a ghost of chance of defeating the Leib Hussars.
The only Chasseur I've got to show so far is the trumpeter, who is a converted Der Kriegspieler from set # 47: Guard Chasseurs a Cheval.
He's a little more My Little Pony-ish than I'd intended, but I decided to keep him as he is because he's actually not too far off the pastel shade of pink depicted in the famous Martinet print.
The rest of the regiment is going to take a while, so the next post will definitely be about the PEF!
WM
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