 deadhead  | 27 Dec 2014 12:55 p.m. PST |
How about this for a New Year promise? In plastic….not just great as they are and variety of poses possible, but what about conversion potential too? Had to beat You Know Who (as the sun rises earlier this side of the Atlantic) (Grin) and best wishes to Armand for the New Year!
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| Footslogger | 27 Dec 2014 1:23 p.m. PST |
Just as I'd converted some from British hussars and spare French dragoon torsos. It had to happen. Am I complaining? NO! |
| wargame insomniac | 27 Dec 2014 3:16 p.m. PST |
Crosses fingers for more Napoleonics plastics to come. French Chasseurs and Lanciers would be amazing. |
| spontoon | 27 Dec 2014 5:00 p.m. PST |
1801 Danes in the pipeline? |
| Footslogger | 28 Dec 2014 4:25 a.m. PST |
"French Chasseurs and Lanciers would be amazing." – they could be done in the same box with the right alternate parts. Using the existing French hussar horse sprues. |
| deadhead | 28 Dec 2014 4:57 a.m. PST |
Chasseurs would be a cinch from these. The coat turnbacks were slightly different, but I suspect not visible beneath kit here. French hussar horses and shako heads…..the fringed epaulettes fine for elite, but easily removed if not. Not clear from central figures how they intend to show lapels. I think I see right edge but not left, so may be buttoned over (if so a shame but again easy enough to "correct" with Greenstuff. What about RHA gunners mounted? Great potential in these……. They were teasing us all along with British Intervention in ACW and jaegers of the Hess/Lippe/Darmstadt/Unterberger Guard |
| Griefbringer | 28 Dec 2014 5:21 a.m. PST |
I am surprised to see Perrys showing three-ups for plastics already before Salute. Has not happened for a couple of years. |
Puster  | 28 Dec 2014 6:31 a.m. PST |
Here is hoping that they do so because they have more to show then… |
| Lord Hill | 07 Jan 2015 6:16 p.m. PST |
Oh my god! How did I miss this?!!! All my Christmases at once! I have been praying for these for years – I will start saving up for a special Light Dragoon fund, I will be buying hundreds! :) |
| deadhead | 08 Jan 2015 3:15 a.m. PST |
I thought folk might be excited. Many have requested these and, again, great conversion potential. British Heavy dragoons would not be too challenging as plastic is so easily sanded/carved. Cuirassier heads, with a bit of sanding single breasted jacket, no lapels…"Job's done!" I doubt I will see plastic Gendarmes d'Elite somehow, but am grateful that my wish was granted, in metal. Still wonder if Gringos are working on their's. I must ask sometime about what the Royal Staff Corps actually did (paint job only on Light Dragoons). Maybe worth a new topic? Often illustrated, rarely mentioned in the literature, when compared with French Garde equivalent (if that is what they were) |
| Musketier | 08 Jan 2015 3:55 a.m. PST |
Wasn't the staff corps more like today's Military Police?
Still, one could perhaps stretch their role to courier functions to field a few on the tabletop? |
| Supercilius Maximus | 25 Feb 2015 5:09 a.m. PST |
I think they were loosely based on the Feldjager found in the Prussian army and the forces of some of the smaller German states (Bavaria 1805-08, for example). Their function was both provost and orderly, depending on whether they were in or out of battle. |
goes to sea with the Terrain Mat.
