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It's hot outside, so let's put a blanket on a horse.

June 19, 2020

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Carrying on from the last post, we have the non-horse bits of the Perry Miniatures Napoleonic British Hussars plastic officer. That’s a lot of words, but with the range Perry has for Napoleonics it’s a good idea to be accurate! On to the researchy bit again! I know it might sound boring, but I like it, so there!

So this picture is almost certainly going to be too small and/or blurry, but it does actually show an officer of the KGL 2nd Hussars, though also calls him a Light Dragoon...which isn't actually correct. But it does show the colours of the cloth and is corroborated by other written sources.

So…yeah… That’s a next to useless image… I was mainly using an image of another painter with his 2nd KGL Hussars, but due to the problems of not knowing how to get permission to share, the best I will give is a link to the image.

http://rogerspaintworks.blogspot.com/2015/07/2nd-kgl-hussars.html

Want to make sure the credit goes where it is meant to be!

There was also a written source that I looked for regarding the 2nd KGL Hussars and found this webpage here ( http://www.napolun.com/mirror/napoleonistyka.atspace.com/British_cavalry.htm#britishlightcavalry ) that gives a whole whack of information on British Cavalry but also uniform differences. Long story short, the lace for the 2nd KGL Hussars was yellow. As was the rule in the army at the time, if the lace was yellow, officers wore gold instead (if white it was silver). Are you all asleep, yet? Probably. Let’s just get to a mini, shall we?

It's hot outside, so let's put a blanket on a horse.

So the tack on the horse is something of a slight improvisation as I couldn’t find specific information about the tack on officer’s horses, but I like the look. You’l also notice the base is not exactly inspiring, but it’s not done yet. A nice flat colour makes it look clean, but until the rider is finished, the horse gets no grass! Speaking of which, here is a picture with the very grey officer on the horse just to show where the model will be covered by the officer’s legs.

And I think that about wraps up the Spring Clean Challenge for this project; though I will continue on after this, have no doubt. Hopefully I’ll still be adding to this when the next one comes along!