The Hinchcliffe 25mm Household cavalry Trumpeter figure is vexing me! He is wearing a bicorn with frilly trim, wheras all the information that I have seen shows British cavalry trumpeters wearing the same headgear as troopers. Could this have been Parade dress? A C/O's peculiarity? An earlier uniform to 1815? Or just an error. Anyone know?
(Would hate to cut the fella's hand off for a swap without need...at Christmas too! Also, I don't think that Trumpeters had carbines so a head swap might be needed instead. Might just go with the figure and forget regulations...many did...but in the Household cavalry??? )
Note: Hinchcliffe online catalogue (Hinds Figures) pics are frequently of the wrong figures...I have the miniature. Hinds service is excellent otherwise.
I think that's a figure for 1812 and before, if indeed it is a British late Napoleonic figure. All the other cavalry figures in the range are post 1812 and checking other makers sites like AB and Front Rank it's a helmet after 1812. Fine for Peninsula but not Waterloo. Both regiments (Royal Horse Guards and the Life Guards) fought in both campaigns. If the uniform and horse furniture agree with the ORs, then a head swap should do it.
No doubt another opinion will come along ;)
About what I think, SV52. But. dunno...handswap easy but carbine probably wrong, Hinchcliffe headswap more difficult...such skinny blokes! And I can get him to sit comfortably on a Bicorn Connoissieur horse! Oh, the trials of being a CO! ;)
It's the problem buying figures which were created in the distant past but are too good a price to ignore, I always look at the price first :o . I had much the same thing recently with some cavalry, this time it was cartridge boxes.