German Cavalry Regiments in Bearskin Bonnets. . .

The Royale Allemond Cavalerie, one of three German heavy cavalry regiments serving in the pre-revolutionary French army. This and two of the following three illustrations have been swiped from Kronoskaf.

Fired with enthusiasm for those RSM95 French cuirassiers in bearskins, I have been paging through my books and looking around online for possible uniforms to approximate. I've (possibly) narrowed it down to these four and might even paint a troop of each since my fictitious regiment will be made up of contingents from some o the smaller principalities contiguous to the Grand Duchy of Stollen and the Electorate of Zichenau. See what you think. I suppose that I should also have a look at my Hans Blackwenn volume on the Reichsarmee.

-- Stokes

The Nassau-Sarrebruek Cavalerie.

The Wurttemburg Cavalerie. I like this uniform a lot.

Last, but not least, my personal favorite, the Leib Grenadiers a Cheval from Wurttemburg.

Comments

Peter Douglas said…

All lovely Stokes. I like the Naussau Saarbruken one's best but the Wurtembergers in red are snappy roo.
Peter

9:40 PM

Wellington Man said…

I am really looking forward to these, HU!

10:19 PM

Pierre le Poilu said…

A great choice of uniforms - my favourite is the Royale Allemand, but a regiment of all four would look terrific.

4:11 AM

marinergrim said…

they're all nice and would look stunning on the tabletop. However, a mixed formation of different squadrons would have quite a dramatic appeal.

5:08 AM

Anonymous said…

The Württemberg uniform will look great and I like the idea by Pierre and Paul for a regiment with a mix of squadrons. Not an easy choice; have fun making it though.
All the best, Simon

11:13 AM

Ross Mac rmacfa@gmail.com said…

Some dashing Cavaliers. Didn't Fitzjames adopt Bearskins for the SYW? Red faced blue our.
I also like a mixed regiment.
Whichever you choose doing 1 squadron sounds like a good way to go. With limited time it would be rewarding to get a whole subunit done and table ready.

8:54 PM

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The Grand Duchy of Stollen

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