After last week’s small offering, today’s post offers a considerably higher figure count - 25 new cavalry in all. Not all of these were painted this week though, most having been completed in the previous two weeks, but were waiting for their officers and trumpeters to arrive.
At the top of the menu is the first of two regiments of Russian horse jägers. This was a new type of cavalry for the Russians, created as the equivalent of the French Chasseurs-a-Cheval. Eight dragoon regiments were converted to jägers in December 1812, wearing essentially the same uniform as they did as dragoons, but with a shako with a tall plume instead of a helmet and curved sabres instead of the straight dragoon sabre.
Represented here is the Niejine (Nezhinsk) regiment, converted from one of the dragoon regiments created in 1806.
In the second batch of figures are two small units of Prussian Mounted Volunteer Jägers. It’s not that I really need any more Volunteer Jägers, but with this set you get so many legs and torsos to make up a variety of cavalry types and it seems such a waste to simply throw them away. So I bought some extra horses and have made these two small units (they probably should be tiny - single stand - units really, but this gives me a bit more flexibility).
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| One with shoulder scales… |
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Also included here is a Prussian cavalry brigadier, painted as a dragoon colonel, made from left over body parts and a spare horse.
Beautiful work Mark. The Prussian cavalry brigadier is a great use of spare parts. Those tall plumes on the Russian jagers really highlights one of the advantages of plastics (if indeed that is what they are) as they are just the type of thing that would snap easily off metal figures after a couple of appearances on the gaming table.
ReplyDeletePlastics they are. I have kept all of the spare Jäger heads for any running repairs and I may also use some to add to some infantry figures to make combined grenadier battalions.
DeleteMark, you continue to cycle through cavalry at a rapid clip. That is a bright blue on the cavalry officer in the last photo.
ReplyDeleteIt has been a rapid expansion in fact by the end of next week, when this phase of the expansion will be completed, 148 chaps will have entered the ranks. A second phase might see the addition of some landwehr cavalry and another regiment of Prussian cuirassiers.
DeleteThey look great Mark, I particularly like the color combination of the first unit, although the Freiwillige Jaeger are very cool too!
ReplyDeleteThanks Keith. The bright blue facing give some life to an otherwise sombre uniform.
DeleteFantastic stuff Mark, quite the step up this week.
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Stu
Thanks Stu. My produçtivity over his week has certainly not been a great.
DeleteSuperb cavalry...and leader!
ReplyDeleteThank you Phil
DeleteSplendid work as always Mark…
ReplyDeleteAll the best. Aly
Thanks Aly…nearing the end of this Prussian/Russian expansion.
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