THE final box from my order to Transport Models of Preston is A Call To Arms' British Life Guards from the Battle of Waterloo.
The box contains four troopers in three poses, and four horses in a single pose.
Unfortunately each horse has two thick moulding wedges on the underside of the base, and they have proved impervious to my craft knife - new blades needed!
The troopers wear a crested helmet with a side plume, which was a popular design across many cavalry branches in in the early 1800s.
By the time of the Franco-Prussian War, this specific design was out of fashion with almost all armies, with the notable exception of the Bavarians, whose chevaulegers still proudly sported it.
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