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Monday 6 December 2021

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!

18 comments:

  1. Beautiful looking collection again sir!

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    1. Thanks you Michael, maybe they'd look a little better without the dust though!

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  2. Another excellent army, Joe! That is one hell of a collection you've built up over the years.

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    1. Thanks Matt, most of it was done in a single year, only the Hanoverians and French were finished 'recently' -(ttwenty plus years ago).

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  3. Ooohhh more Spencer Smith goodness, your post inspires me to paint more figures. They look wonderful in mass.

    Willz.

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    1. Thanks Willz, nearing the end of my collections now, just artillery and bits left.
      When a large tableis full of these figures, nobody cared how badly they're painted !

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    2. Joe as far as I am concerned there is no such thing as a badly painted figure, all toy soldiers with paint on are fantastic and even the ones without paint are still cool to push around the table. Its all about the enjoyment we all get from this wonderful hobby and I thank you again for the inspiration your blog provides.

      Willz.

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    3. Thanks again WIllz, i love these figures despite their lack od detail etc., but still wouldn;t put them on the table without being painted !

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  4. Great looking cavalry Joe, and conversions too, you can see the passion for this subject.

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    1. Thanks Dave, it all stems from Napoleonics and not being able to afford them ! The 7YW is a much saller prospect for 'big' battles, but if starting today I'd do it in a smaller scale.

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  5. Very nice collection indeed. I still can´t se any carolingians and figures from the Great northern war! ;)

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    1. Thanks Ptr., but they are far too northern and much earlier than my interest. INformation on the 7YW was hard enough to get back when I started this project !

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  6. A grest collection Joe. Hope you can fit all the heads back on.

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    1. Thanks Ray, the loss of heads was as acceptable back whenthe conversions were doone and superglue was a dream. I have at least one of the heads andplety grenadiers !

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  7. Great looking collection of 7yw figures bit off of the French having a breast and backplate!
    Best Iain

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    1. Thanks Iain,the French Back and Breasts is a bit of an anomoly in this period, by the Napoleonic period though it was de rigeur.

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  8. You really show what passion can do Joe, so much detail & care put into painting such a large amount of models 👍

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    1. Thanks Frank, I guess it was a lot of time getting them all painted up to mu usual low standard, but ocnsidering all the games played with them it was worth all the effort. If I was doing it now I'd go for a smaller scale.

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