A Return to the Lace Wars Part....oh heck, I've lost count

 

may I present the Danish Lifgarden til Hest

     Strangely enough, now that I am not under pressure to get units done for the convention on the 27th, I find it easier to get units finished. In my quest to find units of different colors I chose the Danish Lifgarden til Hest (Guards Cavalry in English). Matching the foot guards in snazzy buff-yellow coats with carmine cuffs and turnbacks they are a sharp-looking unit. The blackened steel cuirass contrasts nicely with the bright colors of the uniform.


     Building this unit I fell prey to the hazard of plastic figures, I tried to build each one as an individual, each one is posed differently to the other figures (albeit some only slightly). This was a fun unit to build and paint and it exploits the multi-pose capacity of the figures. One glaring mistake that I didn't realize until after I had finished the unit; they wore their coats OVER the cuirass.......sooooo anybody out there that knows of a unit dressed with the coat under the cuirass in these colors that can point me at some information please do and you will win a special prize; a cannon, painted and complete with crew.

 

it wasn't possible to avoid the sword-waving pose entirely

 

there was a spare right arm on the sprue that had escaped my notice up until now

I used it for the firing poses as the elbow was straight

 

the swords were more of an issue in posing

 

hey Kevin, those are your brand-new SAGA hills in the background 

you didn't say if you wanted steep or gentle hills so I made both

 

roaming the battlefield looking for an opponent

      Now I have 60 of the 108 figures finished, just barely past the halfway point (and only if I can resist the urge to buy more). At one unit a week I should have them all completed before the end of November! (Yeah, sure.....and we will be "Home by Christmas").