New Order

MY second order for Project Kaiser from Transport Models of Preston has arrived, and I am suitably excited.

It consists of two boxes of Armies In Plastic Prussian infantry, two of American Civil War Union artillery and one of ACW Union marines.
Why the ACW figures for my Franco-Prussian War refight? Well, the uniforms of Northern gunners and infantry in the ACW were very similar to those of their counterparts in the French army.
This is almost certainly not a coincidence - after all, before 1870 it was the French army that was the height of fashion, thanks especially to its defeat of Austria in the Second Italian War of Independence in 1859 and its being on the winning side in the earlier Crimean War.
It was not just French military doctrines that attracted emulation, but the army's uniforms too, just as after the Franco-Prussian War it was Prussian doctrines and spiked helmets that became all the rage.