Representing Tripp's Dutch-Belgian Heavy Cavalry Brigade during the 100 Days Campaign, I completed 2 of the 3 historical regiments, both in plastic.
While the Perrys metals are outstanding, I decided I had the extra parts to build these unique units from bits. The basics of horse, rider and arms are French Dragoon. The Belgian helmet is a French Carabinier with a plume added and I put on modelling putty to approximate the splendid brass lion badge on the front. The often depicted shoulder roll of the Dutch-Belgian horse I added to one of the riders. The others did not allow a realistic modelling of roll and I did not think I could quite get the sizing the same in any case.
The Dutch regiment has a similar base but uses Austrian officer bicornes, with plumes glued on. I dropped the stand after painting and while all were OK, the one plume went missing. I looked for 10 minutes for the bloody thing and it is still unfound! Never bothered to replace it. The orange cockade of the Netherlanders was added green stuff.
