"1st French Cuirassiers (completed) " Topic

Hi all!I've completed the rest of the 1st French Cuirassiers unit. The figures are from Perry Miniatures. Hope you like! :)
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Saludos
Rafa

Your work is what we strive to emulate Rafa. Brilliant!

C'est les grosse frères!

Tres bien! Great work

Well I have a birthday in 48 hours and, some weeks ago, I dropped some very strong hints about a certain guide to painting Napoleonics……….

So I'll be producing stuff of this quality surely??????

Amazing painting Rafa, just beautiful.

I just threw away my brushes and paints. WOW!

Excellent work!

They are outstanding, as is all your work!

SUPER!
Bob

My favourite trio don't appear here, but are on his gallery. The "Command" threesome of 1st Cuirassiers have the trumpeter in the 1814-15 Blue coat with First Royal Restoration lace (white with the red fleurs de lis), which is superbly rendered. OK, the lozenge flag on the eagle might be an anachronism for 1815 but……..

The cloaks rolled on the portmanteaux. White surface, red lining…… so both colours would show, especially on the upper surface. The effect is even more striking than just red, as here.

Again. Great work. Hoping your book is there on Thursday amongst my birthday gifts!

Just terrific!

Splendid!

The horses are particularly good.

Thanks for sharing.

Paul

superb!

I bought the book this week ( very good it is too ) and it is seriously making me thinking of giving up painting and getting my figures painted professionally as I don't think I will ever be able to reproduce the awesomeness.

Great paint job and animation. No matter how many pics of cuirassiers I see they still strike me as the most spectacular cavalry of the period.

Many thanks for your kind comments!!and thanks to everyone to those who have purchased my book too!:-)

@AuvergneWargamer "The cloaks rolled on the portmanteaux. White surface, red lining…… so both colours would show, especially on the upper surface. The effect is even more striking than just red, as here."

Thanks for the info ;-)Yes,I opted for the red.:-)
Ah!and happy birthday

Saludos
Rafa

Most French cloaks folded on top of portmanteau showed two colours, but, according to unit, they could be red/blue, white/red, pale blue/white etc. A minor detail.

I did get your book for my birthday and it is invaluable. I have learnt so much in a few hours. Highlighting the Dragoon Green with Tan yellow! Never knew that…..but of course! I notice you are not a fan of washes. Your technique certainly seems to work without!

Thanks again for your good wishes.

I admit I like espceially your French Revolutionaries either in 28 mm or 18 mm much better ;-)).

About the lining of the cloaks – it should disappear when the Bardin great coats were introduced, from late 1813 on, they would be just grey.

Well that is important and heartbreaking news…..but of course you are right. I just never thought of that!

My 1815 heavy cavalry all look so good with two colour folded cloaks. I have seen them as such so many times, they had to be right! Oddly, I had often seen them rendered as just plain grey…now I know why.

Great thing about this forum, there is such expertise here. Thanks

@von Winterfeldt
Good clarification,thanks. I as professional painter I try to make it as historically possible, looking always information from various historical sources.

@deadhead
Ah!!Forgive me,I had copied the name of another mate in the post :-)
I usually do not use washes, only in specific things.

@archiduque

Thanks that you see it like a professional, maybe you could check also the stirrup straps – which were not black for French cavalry and maybe also for officers, which often had red or crimson ones, but this is for the small print only.

I have to visit your blog pdq to check about your book

and even for the smaller print, french generals I would opt for gildened stirups and red stirup straps are nearly a must there.

Thanks again!

Again. How good to see that any suggestion is then not seen as any criticism. von W does not tell us what colour for the troopers' stirrups….just that they were not black.

I suspect he knows his stuff to judge by his input to this forum!

@Deadhead
In case – look it up at a Rousselot plate, the information is there – sometimes we lose our ability to look and register, I painted them for my figures in "Bone" colour.