Painting Hussar Braid

[grizzlymc]

In OTS, hussars' frogging is about scale 6 inches deep. I hasve very soft pencils which I grate down the frogging and they leave a fine line of white or yellow along the raised edge. Varnish and it's done.

[HMS Priapus]

While we're on the subject of Hussars, could I ask kindly if the tall busby is correct for the 1st KGL Hussars? And for those familiar with the Perry plastic set, blue or grey trousers. My Google-Fu is failing me... assembled these some time ago and have lost the little painting guide that came with the figures.

[BaronVonWreckedoften]

I shall be preparing a load of Perry (and other manufacturers') Lauzun's Legion hussars - minus pelisses - for the Ayton game next May and was most interested in this thread. I have been planning using a painting pen, of which I have a pack on 10 in all the mot likely colours that hussar lace can come in. This is in lieu of the "dry brush and constant retouching, followed by prolonged swearing and starting again after the inevitable slip with the brush due to the DTs kicking in" procedure that marked my painting career back in the early 1980s.

While we're on the subject of Hussars, could I ask kindly if the tall busby is correct for the 1st KGL Hussars? And for those familiar with the Perry plastic set, blue or grey trousers. My Google-Fu is failing me... assembled these some time ago and have lost the little painting guide that came with the figures.

I have the painting guide to hand - tall busby is correct, but troopers may have worn the version with the peak, as per the 2nd KGL Hussars, and in black rather than the brown of the 2nd and officers of the 3rd; the other two regiments appear to have worn grey pantaloons, but in the 1st, all ranks wore dark blue trousers to match the dolman and pelisse, the latter with black fur (possibly white fur for trumpeters) and red lining; the barrel sashes were red and yellow for all ranks, with gold tassels for officers and NCOs and red ones for troopers (and possibly also trumpeters). Officers' campaign shabraques were plain dark blue, without the red-piped-gold vandyking of the ceremonial versions.

Hope that helps.

[HMS Priapus]

Many thanks BVW - most helpful! Based on your info, I'm now thinking I'll do the 2nd KGL, as I feel an inexplicable impulse to paint grey trousers.

[BaronVonWreckedoften]

OK, but they don't hide the....harrumph....stains quite so well. Unless you paint on that long patch of leather that runs up the inside legs and round under the buttocks, of course.

All ranks appear to have worn the peaked busby in the 2nd. I'm actually thinking of adding the 2nd to my Brunswick Oels (main body) and KGL Light Bn Sharp Practice force.