The Cavalry (7YW FA#17)

 So I got the drawer of Cavalry out for this week's post and immediately spotted it was full of Austrians - only Austrians ! After some deep thought as to where the Prussian, British, Hanoverian and French cavalry were to be located I finally found them in yet another drawer (not from the same set as all the others !).The photgraph on thr right shows an Austrian heavy cavalry regiment -curassiers (Ansbach iirc). All the Austrians were not painted by myself as far as I recall but were painted at the same time as my Prussians, more than forty years ago.

All the figures were dusty, of course, having not been used for some twenty years plus, some were minus heads and finding an intact unit was tricky.

I think everything had been quickly packed away after our refight of Minden.

Today's photographs were  taken with the added disabilty of having shaky hands, so apologies for the somewhat dire photographs, Nevertheless here they are:

 

The first drawer, all Austrians - aaarghhh !

The second, larger drawer - everything else ?

Ansbach cuirassiers with two replacement figures,

Austrian and Prussian cuirassiers looked very similar

Rear view, note no backplate (and the substitutes!)

Austrian Dragoons

Austrian Hussars - no idea which regiment

Another view of the Hussars, with Asbach behind

A mixed selection of figures

The Prussian Garde du Coprs, with Vexillum style standard

Metal Austrian Horse Grenadiers (Hinchcliffe iirc)

Royal North British Dragoons - The Scots Greys (obligatory blurry pic)

Prussian Cuirassier regiment, missing three bases

Hanoverian Horse Grenadiers

These really need dusting, their horses are black !

Prussian Cuirassier standard

French Cuirassier regiment, with shiny back and breast-plates !

This is the complete regiment, just two squadrons strong !

Rear view, for those that like this sort of thing

Prussian hussars

Hussars with colbacks trimmed to mirlitons,

Many of the figures here had their heads replaced with grenadier heads (remember I have a huge surplus of these and some were re-fitted with drummers heads (also in the surplus category). Some hussars had their furry colback headgear cut down to represent mirlitons and had very thin paper 'streamers; added, the latter being lost many years ago. 

I still have two more drawers of figures from my 7YW collection (sorry t bore you all still)  to post about, cannon and ancillary stuff - probably some more cavalry too ! I've also comeacross very few generals, though I  thought I had about twenty Hinchliffe ones - they'll be somewhere no doubt!

Thanks for taking the time to visit and as always your comments are always welcomed and truly appreciated!