Over the last six months or so I have been slowly buying up 40mm Prince August SYW cavalry off EBay from a seller who I think must be getting rid of somebodies collection and they vary from the unpainted to the half painted and painted . I have now got enough for a regiment of Cuirasser and a unit of Hussars .
The castings are very nice, think they have been cast from the proper Prince August metal rather than the scrap I use .
Even a clever officer conversion , by adding a hand and sword from a infantry officers mould .
The first squadron based up ready for undercoating . I'm now going to have to choose a regiment to fit the figures , will have to be Germanic with that cuirass - Saxon maybe ?
Always nice to pick up collectables on Ebay at a fair price. If you can repair or restore it to something attractive, I think its more fun than buying new casting IMHO. I've picked up some useful stuff for my 28mm Eastern European collections but I do laugh at sellers that try to get matching prices to those that are still available new from the manufacture.
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I don't mind casting my own but it is nice to add ones that somebody else has done . Yes I do watch the prices and only buy cheap and don't get into a biding war .
DeleteI burned myself again today casting PA figures - all I need now is to paint up the two cast battalions!
ReplyDeleteI need to cast up trumpeters and command for these , but it's to cold at the moment in the shed .
DeleteNice! That is quite the haul! I imagine that box wasn't light!
ReplyDeleteLuckily they didn't arrive all at once , would have given the postman a hernia .
DeleteNice grab.
ReplyDeleteI treated myself to the new Cuirassier moulds for Christmas.(shhh)
Those new moulds are very tempting !.
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