Revision 13.12.2019 due to photobucket Hi,
the suggestion for this model came to me through a double Dio,
of the well-known Italian duo Cartacci-Numitone (the latter model painting the former)
With this fantastic 54mm dio, the two won at the World Expo 2008 in Gerona
1st prize in the category "Best of Show historically".
It is a small scene from Napoleon's Russian campaign in the winter of 1812.
A small group of mounted officers, possibly members of the "Escadron sacré",
be attacked in a birch grove by Russian cavalry (Bashkirs, Tartars, Kalmucks, ...)
allies in the service of the Tsar from the steppes of Asia.
Because of the arches, reminiscent of the Roman god of love Cupid, they were ridiculed by the French as "les Amours".
The nomadic horsemen made apparently a joke of it to fret the French with bow and arrow.
Here are the remodeled horses with the changed saddlecloths ...... and here the converted figures ... .. the landscape before it begins to snow .. The finished diorama