These two brigades - Ghigny and van Merlen - finishes the Netherlands Cavalry Division after Trip´s Heavy Brigade done some time ago.
In TC´s exchange I got some 30 nice painted Peninsular British Dragoons with the Tarleton helmet. Initially, it looked like there were several boxes of painted Hat industry figures but on a closer look I noticed there was only one with the other being conversions from the Airfix British RHA. And they were so well done! My job was to use these as the 8th Belgian Hussars and 6th Dutch Light Dragoons after repaint, taking the advantage of the Hussar coat of all figures. The shakoes came from the dead Zvezda light infantry you can see lying all over... what a plassacre!
Here you can see some of the Airfix bodies used by TC to make cavalrymen. The legs are Esci, something I also just did in the previous post.
The only the shakoes were taken from the Zvezda figures, a risky operation that has to be done carefully with a new blade.
The rear pointy shabraque was simply painted on the Hat and Esci horses.
One last conversion was on the 8th Belgian Hussar cornet which got a Hat Colpack as it should. MSJ website shows the colpack without cords or sac but it looks better with both.
Next: the 36th Belgian Jaeger (Detmers brigade)
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