French Cavalry Charge towards the British Infanty Square
Sunday, January 4th, 2009Today I have painted 4 French heavy cavalry figures, an officer, a trumpeter and two troopers.These will be charging one flank of the British Infantry Square, but their final position will be trial and error.
French Heavy Cavalry figures
One of the troopers has been slightly modified. I have bent his head backwards and have also bent his sword arm. This is to simulate him being shot and you can see the result in the picture above (top right figure). The trumpeter’s face has been painted to simulate a young boy or youth and I have to say that these plastic figures from Italari (6003) are of excellent quality.
And here are the 4 French Heavy Cavalry figures mounted on their horses and charging the British infantry square. The effect of the ’shot’ trooper can be seen better in the picture below. Note the horses legs have also been slightly bent to give movement to them. Perfectly upright horses do not give an impression of galloping.
French Heavy Cavalry