Bought on a Whim, Parte the Second

Refering back to the first of these blog posts revealing figures I had no need of, no intention of buying and indeed didn't know existed which I purchased back at May's Partizan show at Newark Showground, here is the second post featuring Murat as ADC to General Bonaparte. Again the figure is from Trent Miniatures of course. I had thought to put him on the same base as the two you've already seen, but somehow I couldn't find a composition I liked so I decided to base him separately and use him in games as the ADC he is portrayed as ~

I've painted him in the uniform of a Chasseurs à Cheval regiment as I've not found any other illustrations of him in this early period of his career.

Although the range of figures for the Wars of the French Revolution were originally sculpted back in the day by Matt for Duncan, they have more recently been in the hands of other sculptors. While perfectly adequate they somehow lack the movement and character of the earlier iterations, though as I've said before are somewhat lifted by being mounted on Copplestone sculpted horses. Of course this is just a matter of taste and opinion on my part.

I've just started work now on the third item I bought on the same whim, though from a different manufacturer and for a very different period too. As they say, more as and when...