"WSS Leather cuirass?" Topic
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| Maxshadow | 10 Oct 2016 1:23 a.m. PST |
I'm painting my first WSS regiment, Swabian Cuirassiers. Grant says they had leather cuirasses. Any idea what colour these might be? |
| Altefritz | 10 Oct 2016 5:45 a.m. PST |
It look strange enough. However leather cuirass color (and a look trough Google Image will confirm it) should be between a reddish cuir and a dark gray. |
| Maxshadow | 10 Oct 2016 11:58 a.m. PST |
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| Musketier | 17 Nov 2016 3:03 p.m. PST |
Leather cuirasses sound like an awful lot of work for little practical gain, when the production of steel ones was well established. Could that reference be to buffcoats rather? |
| Maxshadow | 19 Nov 2016 12:42 a.m. PST |
Grant does deliberately note they had leather Cuirass. I have no idea what his primary sources are. |
| maciek72 | 19 Nov 2016 4:44 a.m. PST |
Leather cuirasses were lighter than steel. Some people lobbied for them as equipment for Napoleonic light cavalry |
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paints brigs for the British fleet.
