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Russian Cossack Retreat from Moscow 1812
I wanted to recreate the painting below. This was a complicated kit bash and also involved a lot of sculpting with Greenstuff. The right arm (nearly all the parts are Perry Miniatures plastics) is from one of the Wars of The Roses boxes, the left is a French line infantry officers, the body, torso horse and helmet are from the French Heavy cavalry box and the head and legs are from the French Chasseurs.
All the shoulder detail and buttons etc were removed from the arms. The buttons were also removed from the legs. The helmet horsehair was altered and additions were made with putty. The head was cut and drilled out of the helmet. All the saddlery was removed from the horse. I also removed the plume and bag from the chasseurs hat and added a new bag to it.
I sculpted all of the new saddle, bags and blankets etc. I refined a lot of the details ( adding facial hair etc) and sculpted more fur on the bearskin and added a coat with fur trim to the model. Finally I added a wire lance ( the point was filed) and a cartridge box from a Warlord French line infantryman and a sword from the Heavy Cavalry box by Perry.
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