For those familiar with such things, Murat had somewhat of a liking for light crimson, or what I like to call pink, and it features in some way with many of the napoleonic units assocaited with him.
This unit is one I painted myself, the castings are mainly hinchliffe foremost range chasseurs of the guard, and a splendid figure it is too. I've done some conversion work on these using a few firing line heads and other tweaks. The officers, standard bearer and drummer are mostly bicorne with head swaps back to hinchliffe to make them a better fit with the other figures and the sapper, and two other officers are hinchliffe, with a wee bit of tweaking.
Anyway, quite pleased with how they turned out.
4 comments:
Very colourful - nice pink!
Very nice indeed. I agree that Foremost figure is a good'un.
Officially it was 'Amaranth' -not a very 'manly' hue according to modern prejudices :)
John Any recent moulding of neapolitan rearing horse finials -i was in touch last year. Peter :-) I have 2 Neapolitan units painted up and they need the final icing on the cake. As I said last year please let me know and I will send you postage cost etc,i live in Ireland.
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