Kit Check - Plastic Austrian Cavalry from Perry Miniatures

I look outside the box, inside the box, build some of the figures and give my thought on the kit. More great content from Perry Miniatures, but not without some flaws.

[@franksminiatures7509]

Thanks for the nice review. I've also got these, but still have to build them. The gaps look a little too big to fill them with paint. I suggest a little liquid green stuff from Citadel will do the trick. Looking forward seeing them painted.

[@thelastbattalion3509]

I ended up using green stuff/milliput to fill the gaps. Liquid green stuff would work for the finer gaps but would probably need several applications to the bigger ones! Still nice miniatures despite it.

[@mobileandhostile7895]

⭐️ great presentation and a very helpful review - thanks for taking the time ⭐️ 👍

[@thelastbattalion3509]

Thank you, glad you liked it.

[@basicminiaturepainting]

It is a lovely set and paints up really well

[@thelastbattalion3509]

I’m looking forward to painting them (when I get round to it). Just need to fill a few gaps!

[@friedrich2.615]

Love the Video. How did you paint you napoleonic prussian landwehr infantry regiments? I never get the prussian blue and the grey trousers right.

[@thelastbattalion3509]

Thank you. Getting the blue and grey tones right is a bit of a struggle that depends on what looks and feels right to the person painting it I think. I can’t remember which greys I used for the trousers, but I think I used Vallejo Imperial Blue as the main colour on the jackets, then mixed with the ‘Prussian Blue’ colours for highlights. I might have put a dark blue wash over the initial coat and then reapplied it before highlighting, that gets you a free tone shift and a little depth at the cost of time. Hope that helps.

[@friedrich2.615]

@@thelastbattalion3509 thanks for the advise gone try it out.

[@maryhinge6334]

Great overview. Was standing at Salute yesterday with a box of these in my hand and was so close to buying them. Wish I had now. 😂😂

[@thelastbattalion3509]

Thank you - I'm sure the internet can provide!

[@bonysminiatures3123]

Austrian cav look beautiful , looking forward to doing these and hopefully see your completed cav later i know they will be outstanding

[@thelastbattalion3509]

Thank you, very kind! They're nice figures despite the flaws, I'm just filling some of the gaps with epoxy at the moment to complete them.

[@provjaro]

What a lovely set, so many quality sets out there now, we are spoiled for choice.

[@thelastbattalion3509]

Completely agree, I’ve already earmarked a couple of boxes of Russian/Prussian Dragoons from Perry that are in development! The options included are excellent.

[@provjaro]

@@thelastbattalion3509 they are, I'm mainly an 18mm collector but keep an eye on 28mm because of my brother. Have started putting a small army together to face him.

[@thelastbattalion3509]

Must get back to my 18mm 1809 stuff...at some point.

[@JP-ml4zh]

Great review, thanks very much, and eagerly awaiting some plastic Russian cav 😀😀cheers Jp

[@thelastbattalion3509]

Me too very much so. I’ve got a full regiment of Prussian Dragoons pencilled in for building from that set!

[@provjaro]

I remember my brother said either the french dragoons or cuirassier had a similar issue with the seam line down the face. Painted up well after clean up.

[@thelastbattalion3509]

Yes it’s a recurring feature across their sets including the French Dragoons. Given those and these were made ten years apart there must be a reason. They still paint really nicely but cleaning them up of a faff.

[@provjaro]

@@thelastbattalion3509 yeah, pretty much my brothers thought on the. Loves them but clean up was a pain.

[@FAR_-ej9xt]

Nice review again, hope to see a review of the French infantry coming out for Franco Prussian!

[@thelastbattalion3509]

Will almost certainly be doing that!