While the units will be small and so I don't need all the figures in the French Heavy Cavalry box, so I decided to convert the beautiful officer into a General. I took a spare bicorne from the infantry and simply glued it onto the torso (that is one of the really good points of plastics - easy converstions!)
Taking a bit of green stuff, I modeled the fancy hat plumage. The right hand of the figure was designed to take the sword with the hand within to be glued on. In lieu of, I had the arm come up along the side of the horses neck and made a GS hand.
The escort is a cuirassier with shouldered sword. Both have very nicely sculpted horses (as far as I am aware--- I have been around but one horse in my life!) but look the part. Some of the metal beasts of other manufacturers are very bad examples indeed.
Post Script: the camera certainly has a trick of picking out mold lines which normally go unnoticed! I will need to touch up on those...