HaT Russian Cuirassier completed!

I'm pleased to say that my latest addition of a 12 figure Russian Cuirassier regiment is complete....

The HaT figures are not too bad in quality bit I do prefer the Italeri cavalry figures some of which are next on my 'to do' list (more French Hussars!)

Overall I'm very pleased with how these turned out and even though my paint job is still very basic compared to some I do feel that my painting is improving..... Can you hear that?...That's me blowing my own trumpet!

Anyway, that's another unit that will eventually make it onto my table  (work starts on the wargaming attic soon!) and yet another batch of figures I need to store somewhere until I'm ready to get gaming!
All comments welcomed as per usual.

HaT Austrian Grenadiers

Here's my first 12 Austrian Grenadier figures ready for basing.... (Click on images to enlarge)

Although I wasn't overly impressed with the quality of the figures, especially the faces which are really not well defined, the figures do look pretty good (to me anyway!) painted up.

I did have a problem gathering info on what the top of the bearskins looked like. After several differing opinions  from folk on TMP and looking at painted versions of these figures on the HaT website I eventually settled on this ......

I don't know if this is the correct design but it looks ok to me. 

The French Grenadier figures (again from HaT) which I was also planning on painting up have been put to the bottom of the plastics pile as I really don't like them. HaT obviously employed a different sculptor for the French Grenadiers, they are way taller and 'dumpier' than the usual HaT figures. I'll be replacing these shortly with either Italeri or Zvezda figures.

Anyway, here's the Grenadiers in action...

Up next will be French Hussars.... Stay tuned!