Boosting my Austrian Napoleonic cavalry

[Fire at Will]

Over the years I acquired an extra packet each of the HaT Austrian Cuirassiers and Chevaulegers. So earlier this year I decided that I would replace all my Airfix conversions with the newer HaT figures, so I bought another packet of each. This gave me two more units of Cuirassiers, one of Dragoons, and two Chevaulegers (one with green and the other with white coats).


This combined with my much earlier painting of Hat figures gave me a total of four Cuirassier (at the front), three Dragoon (rear right) and three Chevauleger (rear left). I also had to rebase the older figures to match.


Cuirassiers followed by dragoons, typically I spotted I had forgotten to flutter the flags on the new units before taking the pictures.


Cuirassiers followed by Chevaulegers

[Peter]

Great reinforcements for your cavalery! I like them!

[Fire at Will]

Observant readers may have noticed that I would have eight cuirassier figures left over from two packets of the HaT figures. These were modified with the bicorne heads from the Chevaulegers to provide an earlier version of the uniform suitable for the French Revolution period. I also swapped the horses for some old spare Italeri Carabinier horses as there were a few badly moulded horses in the sets.

[CPN]

Dear Fire at will,
You revolutionary line (and you imagination armies) of figures have always been my favourite on your blog. This is another fine addition. Do you plan any game coming soon?
Cheers
CPN

[Kekso]

A boost indeed. Good one.

[Bill Slavin]

That’s a lot of cavalry! A nice addition to your army - I hope they get on a table soon.

[MABO]

You really have been busy! Massive reinforcement!

[Fire at Will]

"Something old something new" The new is the unit of German Light Infantry created from the HaT Austrian Landwehr. The old is my long serving Airfix Hussars that were painted as Austrian and now rebased.