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I’m a 60-year-old Aspergic gardening CAD-Monkey. Sardonic, cynical and with the political leanings of a social reformer, I’m also a toy and model figure collector, particularly interested in the history of plastics and plastic toys. Other interests are history, current affairs, modern art, and architecture, gardening and natural history. I love plain chocolate, fireworks and trees, but I don’t hug them, I do hug kittens. I hate ignorance, when it can be avoided, so I hate the 'educational' establishment and pity the millions they’ve failed with teaching-to-test and rote 'learning' and I hate the short-sighted stupidity of the entire ruling/industrial elite, with their planet destroying fascism and added “buy-one-get-one-free”. Likewise, I also have no time for fools and little time for the false crap we're all supposed to pretend we haven't noticed, or the games we're supposed to play. I will 'bite the hand that feeds', to remind it why it feeds.

Tuesday, February 8, 2022

H is for Hussards - Historex No's 632, 633 & 698

Two things have reared themselves up since yesterday; firstly, I jumped in too quick on Sunday after finding the papers, and they will need a separate page (above, in a day or two) to link to the posts by code number as some sets - like this one - carry several numbers! So we will be building a check list for transfer to the A-Z entry as we go! It will also help us work out what papers are missing?

Secondly, I am shit at Napoleonic uniforms/unit designations, these are 'Hussards' right? Well they are - it says so, but there is a 'Hussar' sheet as well! Then there's lots of 'Chasseur' cavalry who look like what I think Hussars should look like! They are all light-cavalry - as far as I can tell, but I suspect some are lighter than others and some may be considered medium (if heavy have breast-plates) in the absence of that designation as anything other than vague (Dragoons). but . . . look, the Napoleonic war-gamers and figure painters will know what they are looking at, which is one of the points of publishing these!

I was for a short while in the late-19980/early-1990's a bit of an expert on armoured cars and half-tracks, but have forgotten most of it, as I'm now filling the filing cabinet with toys, toy figures and toy-company stuff, and when that cabinet is the grey matter between your ears, there's only so much room! I could Google it and try a bit of bluffing (my PM would!), but what's the point? They are what they are and people will get what they want from them!

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Figure Kits; Figure Painting; French Figures; French Kits; Historex; Napoleonic French; Napoleonic Toy Soldiers; Napoleonic Wars; Plastic Figure Kits; Plastic Figures; Plastic Kits; Polish Princess; Polystyrene Figures; Polystyrene Kits; Small Scale World; smallscaleworld.blogspot.com; Hussards; Historex 632; Historex 633; Historex 698, Hussar Cavalry

Figure Kits; Figure Painting; French Figures; French Kits; Historex; Napoleonic French; Napoleonic Toy Soldiers; Napoleonic Wars; Plastic Figure Kits; Plastic Figures; Plastic Kits; Polish Princess; Polystyrene Figures; Polystyrene Kits; Small Scale World; smallscaleworld.blogspot.com; Hussards; Historex 632; Historex 633; Historex 698, Hussar Cavalry

Figure Kits; Figure Painting; French Figures; French Kits; Historex; Napoleonic French; Napoleonic Toy Soldiers; Napoleonic Wars; Plastic Figure Kits; Plastic Figures; Plastic Kits; Polish Princess; Polystyrene Figures; Polystyrene Kits; Small Scale World; smallscaleworld.blogspot.com; Hussards; Historex 632; Historex 633; Historex 698, Hussar Cavalry

Figure Kits; Figure Painting; French Figures; French Kits; Historex; Napoleonic French; Napoleonic Toy Soldiers; Napoleonic Wars; Plastic Figure Kits; Plastic Figures; Plastic Kits; Polish Princess; Polystyrene Figures; Polystyrene Kits; Small Scale World; smallscaleworld.blogspot.com; Hussards; Historex 632; Historex 633; Historex 698, Hussar Cavalry

Figure Kits; Figure Painting; French Figures; French Kits; Historex; Napoleonic French; Napoleonic Toy Soldiers; Napoleonic Wars; Plastic Figure Kits; Plastic Figures; Plastic Kits; Polish Princess; Polystyrene Figures; Polystyrene Kits; Small Scale World; smallscaleworld.blogspot.com; Hussards; Historex 632; Historex 633; Historex 698, Hussar Cavalry

Figure Kits; Figure Painting; French Figures; French Kits; Historex; Napoleonic French; Napoleonic Toy Soldiers; Napoleonic Wars; Plastic Figure Kits; Plastic Figures; Plastic Kits; Polish Princess; Polystyrene Figures; Polystyrene Kits; Small Scale World; smallscaleworld.blogspot.com; Hussards; Historex 632; Historex 633; Historex 698, Hussar Cavalry
If I were to try bluffing it I might have used this page, which seem to be a reasonable preamble through the types, but even he confuses it by using both terms in the same section! I think 'ard is an occasional French version (pretention?) of 'ar? Anyway, the Chasseurs (who will come last in this group of posts) are described as having cheaper uniforms and horses, despite being the ones looking most like my idea of Hussars!

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