Russian officer in shako

As many readers will know, Russian officers in the early Napoleonic period seem to have worn bicornes. However, after 1805, officers were allowed to wear a shako, and at least by 1807 there was a distinctive officer’s shako with an eagle ornament and decorative chin straps or chains. There are no miniatures that I know of with this headgear, so I decided to try to convert one. The conversion was very simple, I just swapped heads with an NCO model (both figures are by Brigade Games).