SYW Austrian cuirassiers redux

[ochoin]

My project of turning Zvevda Napoleonic Saxon cuirassiers & their GNW Swedish dragoons into a unit of SYW Austrian cuirassiers is slow work.

I'm on the final 3 figures but I am clearly getting cocky. As if head, torso & leg swops weren't enough, I tried out an arm swop - putting the dragoon firing a pistol arm on a figure:
You can see the initial pinning before I put super-glue in the join:


There's always a bit of a gap, so I use white glue to fill it:


Making sure the riders fit the horses (the dragon legs are too small for the large cuirassier horses so need modifying):


The all-important undercoating:


I could do with 3 units of 'em but they're too much work so 1x12 figure unit will be all.
donald

[valleyboy]

Looks good and interesting but you seem to have missed out the step with the mandatory banana oil
I agree its really hard summoning up the energy to do multiple conversions so well done so far

[ochoin]

I've heard of the legendary banana oil but thought it was a wargamers' myth.

At any rate, the unit looks OK & will look better when I fill those final 3 saddles:



donald

[grizzlymc]

Excellent! They do look the dog's dangly bits. You only need banana oil for plasticene additions.