A Foray into Napoleonic Wargaming
1eme Hussars
It has again been quite a while since I added anything to this project, but I’ve added another lot of French light cavalry, this time some dashing Hussars.
I normally get my cavalry models from AB Figures, but their French Hussars are sculpted wearing buttoned up pelisses, rather than wearing them draped on the shoulder and flaring out at the charge. Instead, I picked up my figures from Xan Miniatures, who added a few French cavalry to their range at the end of last year.
I painted this lot as the first Hussars, who had a very impressive war record during the Napoleonic era. Before the Peninsula War, they fought at Marengo, Ulm, Austerlitz, Jena, Eylau, Heilsberg and Friedland. The first were with the Armées d’Espagne and du Portugal from 1808-1812 at Braga, Santillo, Sabugal and Monasterio, and won a battle Honour at Oporto. From 1813 they left the Peninsula, joining the Grand Armée in Germany.
The first aren’t the most elaborate Hussars in terms of their uniform, mostly sky blue with red cuffs, and a black trim to their pelisses. The elite Hussars add a bit more colour with red trousers, and the trumpeter wears reversed colours on the typical grey mount.
Not my best painting; feeling a bit rusty at painting this scale after doing a lot of 28mm stuff recently. However they look fine at gaming distance, and I’m pretty happy with the end result.
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