Turpin Hussars and future plans

Turpin Hussars is my 5th French cavalry regiment, and probably the last for some time. I find Hussars extremely morale sapping to paint, and I am breathing a sigh of relief today, as this regiment joins the ranks. I have used some artistic licence in that the commanding officer wears a tricorne to define him from the rest of the unit. (He is also firing a pistol). Hussar officers were known for wearing a tricorne on occasions, and I assume the French were no different. The standard is hand painted on a flat copper sheet cut to size. I have used a bit of artistic licence with the colour, as I could only find a description and no illustration in Kronoscaf. My French cavalry regiments are smaller, normally 12 figures. I have painted each squadron in a different colour, white, black and brown to give more variation. 3 squadrons of 4 figures = French cavalry regiment.

Next up is the Piemont Infantry Regiment.
I still have some French castings left, so I will paint them up as a new unit before starting my Hanoverian project. I like the plain look of this regiments uniform, and the black facings will contrast nicely with the off-white coat. Certainly they will be less challenging than Hussars.
I had already converted a mounted officer, the foot soldiers will be started today.

                                                      Piemont Infantry Officer


Stuart visited us last week, I always enjoy his visits as he recharges my batteries and always has something new up his sleeve. Hopefully we will get a few games in 2020 and we also discussed a show game to display my 40mm' ers and recently purchased ships. So I have ordered some 1200x600x50mm Ekoboards which hopefully I will be able to cut to shape and use as base boards.
The main task will be to cut a hole in two of the boards which will represent the sea, and will allow me to slot in the ships to the correct hull water line. The last thing I want to do is cut away the hulls of these little master pieces. The ships will need to be sunk by about 80-90 mm, hence the need for 100mm thick/tall base boards.