A recently finished two more badly needed Russian hussars. I started with these many months (even years?) ago. They are a pain because every figure requires a bit of remodeling to fit the period (1808). The base models are by Perry miniatures, but the heads have been replaced with period appropriate Brigade Games heads wearing older type shakos. The tassels are scratch made using wire and green stuff, which is fairly difficult (at least for my skill level!). To make matters worse, the painting process was nearly ruined because of cracking of the AP wash, which is a recurring problem for me. Whether it is caused by shoddy undercoating, humidity (too high or too low?), too short a drying time, I really dont know. Anyhow, I am happy to have finished these, these Grodno hussars were the most commonly seen Russian cavalry unit in the Finnish war together with the ubiquitous cossacks of course. Consequently I will need to do at least 12 or preferably 16 of these. So far, I have done 3…
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