  
"2e Cavalerie 1794 - AB 18 mm" Topic
 
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| von Winterfeldt | 13 Dec 2022 4:33 a.m. PST |  
  
  
  To my extreme delight I discovered that AB sculpted a much neglected topic, French heavy cavalry – those were later converted into cuirassiers under Bonaparte / Napoléon. Only one regiment had a cuirass in the French revolution, the ci devant cuirassiers du roi, or 8e Cavalerie. The standard was created thankfully by notbyappointment – here for a change the 2nd squadron as well, and therefore also the pole was painted in red. url=https://postimg.cc/xN8JqCbY] 
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    | Cavcmdr | 13 Dec 2022 8:38 a.m. PST |  
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    | dbf1676 | 13 Dec 2022 11:19 a.m. PST |  
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    79thPA   | 13 Dec 2022 12:20 p.m. PST |  
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    | Wargamorium | 13 Dec 2022 12:28 p.m. PST |  
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    | jwebster | 13 Dec 2022 1:00 p.m. PST |  
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    | Nic Robson | 13 Dec 2022 5:18 p.m. PST |  
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    | Lonesome Dove | 13 Dec 2022 5:38 p.m. PST |  
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    | johannes55 | 14 Dec 2022 1:23 a.m. PST |  
  
  
  Great figures and great painting. Thanks for sharing.   |  
    | nsolomon99 | 17 Dec 2022 7:08 p.m. PST |  
  
  
  Wonderful figures wonderfully painted, you should be proud vW.   |  
      deadhead   | 18 Dec 2022 4:52 a.m. PST |  
  
  
  Notice the blue and gold lettering on the officer's sword blade or the trumpet cords…and this is 18mm scale.   |  
    | DHautpol | 19 Dec 2022 9:35 a.m. PST |  
  
  
  Absolutely beautiful.  I copied them into PAINT and Zoomed in and they don't lose a thing, the painting is still amazing. I've never been able to master the "Damascened blade" look realistically, but it looks spot-on here.   |  
      deadhead   | 19 Dec 2022 1:56 p.m. PST |  
  
  
  The things you learn here. I know about a Damascene conversion, but never heard that term applied to a sword. Google soon taught me. Bluing I have tried on 28mm occifers' swords, even with a bit of gold "engraving", but I am much the wiser now. Thanks d'Hautpol   |  
    | von Winterfeldt | 19 Dec 2022 10:57 p.m. PST |  
  
  
  thanks for those nice feed backs, the blueing is easy, you can use a blue ink, or dark blue ink, for the gold, some dots.   |  
      
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