Silesian Kurassiers

Well I'm glad to say I finally finished another cavalry regiment and so I'm mighty happy! I mentioned I was working on these guys a couple of times however I had put them to the side to work on some of the Prussian infantry battalions I bought from Darren at the end of last year. The majority of these figures also came from Darren but unpainted.
  

The figures are from AB and are very nice only requiring a clean up around saddle and the horses legs and I have grow to really like their standing at ready poses (you might remember I wasn't so impressed with them when I finished my 1st regiment? Mainly due to just finishing a Russian curassier regiment charging).
   

I attached the figures to their horses before spraying them black. For ease of painting I had already separated the figures into their groups of poses and placed them with matching horses for each group as best I could. This helps with speed of painting and basing as when you come to basing you split them up leaving each base with 3 different styles of figures and horses (plus colours of horses, that isn't quite historically correct but I don't mind that so much). It also helps if you want to do different colour of hair as if you paint the group you are painting with say blonde hair it means you get a nice random split of blondes throughout your bases.
  

I would like to say a huge thanks to the guys over on TMP for helping me out with all the small detail like saddle cover colour, trumpet cords and wings and also staff colour!
    

I used a standard from the signifer 15mm range that fits the AB figures really well however they didn't have 1 in the colour I needed so I found the nearest I had and painted the field etc (the colour is much more close to purple/crimson than the pictures show).
  

And here they are with the East Prussian kurassier I painted a year or 2 ago. I think this will be my last Prussian kurassier regiment as I can't see me needing more than 2? (Best not to say never but I'm pretty sure they will be my last!)
  

And I started work on a little command base for them yesterday.It's actually almost done now as I took the pics this morning. Again sorry to Phil for the use of wee dead French men on my command bases! Next post will be on my basing technique as a few people have asked about it. I took pictures while doing my Kurass so hopefully they will be useful.

Also I bought another lot of Prussian figures from Darren recently, painted cavalry this time 33 hussars and 32 dragoons so hopefully I will have a pretty good number of Prussian horse to field in the next few months so thanks again Darren!!!