One benefit of the dragoon debacle is that I've solved the niggling problem of the bugler with the physically impossible helmet crest; I've replace his head with one of the custom-conversion heads as if he's lost his helmet mid-charge!
As I now have a few French dragoons without heads and more custom-conversion heads in bicornes, I've decided to combine them to create (wait for it...) Spanish cavalry! Yes, I know I cursed my Spaniards in my last AAR, but I do have a soft spot for them and their peacock plumage. I've had a hankering for some canary-yellow clad cavalry, if only to give the opposition something to laugh at!
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| Bare-headed bugler boy of company B! (undercoated head - he hasn't been looking down the cannon's mouth á lá Wile E. Coyote) |
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| Putative Spanish cavalryman |
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| A la carga! |
Well done that man, I'm so glad that you've found the strength to return to the devastated dragoons, they really were too good not to complete.
ReplyDeleteWell done - and a goiod idea for the bugler. I always wondered how they kept their hats on during a charge!
ReplyDeleteI'm so pleased you paint again some spanish! Good luck to them!
ReplyDeleteBest,
Phil.
Well done, that is the spirit. I am pleased so few were written off
ReplyDeleteWell at least you saved some?? I would have smashed them all up in a fit of rage, then regretted my moment of madness!!
ReplyDeleteI like the idea of the Spanish Cavalry and cant wait to see them painted.
ReplyDeleteStout fellow - stickability - never say die - try and try again - NIL DESPERANDUM - nothing succeeds like a parrot with no teeth - etc. Sorry - there's something exhaustingly worthy about all that stuff, but I'm pleased you're going to do them - after all, you're not going to be defeated by a bunch of little plastic men! [And you probably aren't going to keep your soldiers on the floor?]
ReplyDeleteWell done, my man - good move!
Damn' right I'm not keeping them on the floor any more!
DeleteAs for toothless parrots, the mind boggles at the thought of parrots WITH teeth!