Apparently said by Cecil B DeMille according to David Niven and who am I to doubt David Niven. He meant horses without riders but empty horses has a certain ring to it don't you think? My version of said empty horses are accompanied by their riders though. These are dismounted dragoons in a firing line. It's a basing idea I came up with for my 2mm ACW cavalry and as I liked the resulting look I have gone for the same look for my 6mm pike and shot dragoons. On the plus side it shows they are dragoons rather than skirmishing musketeers and reduces the number of bases I have to create, but on the downside the horse holders and dismounted dragoons are too close together. Still I doubt anyone will complain.
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| The empty horses (Which would be a great name for a band don't you think) |
As well as the empty horses, as a bonus, here are some full horses, AKA the mounted variant for these dragoons. I have painted both the mounted and dismounted versions in the same style I used for the dragoons I already had, which were painted a couple or three decades ago. It's not how I would do it now but it keeps the same appearance with the existing dragoon base they will be deployed alongside to form a combat unit. So that's me out of the starting blocks for October's painting work.
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| And here they are all full of riders |
The phone camera struggled with direct sunlight and over exposed the shots by a couple of stops. I may have to play with the images and repost them. The black background might have been part of the issue, who knows my phone camera seems to have a mind of it's own. Strike one against AI?
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| Both together |
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