Horse Artillery of the Imperial Guard

The second set from the recently acquired hoard is a five man French Guard Horse Artillery team. I think that t hese are little gems and in my view demonstrate a gradual improvement in the sculpting of this range. The head proportions appear better and overall I think this is one of the better Ros sets.

The set follows the standard five poses used in the Ros 25mm artillery teams; with an officer, a man with a lever, a man holding a rammer and two standing poses. There is also a gun, which is different to that used in the line artillery set. I am guessing that it is a 6 pdr piece as used by the horse artillery:

French Empress Dragoon - from an eagle eyed friend!

To my surprise one afternoon I received an urgent email from an online friend - whom I shall call ' The Mysterious Goya', saying that a hoard of figures, that were almost certainly all Ros 25mm, had been spotted on a trade stand at a show. The figures were purchased on my behalf and turned up in the post a few days later. What a nice surprise when I opened the package. An excellent haul that included several cavalry figures and an artillery team that I had given up hope of ever finding. Indeed, I was not even sure that they had been manufactured.

I will post pictures as I examine them in more detail.

First up is an example from a group of four (they came in packs of four cavalry) French Empress Dragoons of the Guard. I am assuming that these are guard dragoons (as opposed to line dragoons) by the lanyards and cords depicted on the right shoulder and the chaperons doubles on the saddle. In fact this is a horse that I have not seen before either, which is marked N7, Ros 1976.