The scouts are back! (Finnish cavalry)

First sketch. 

Second sketch. 

Finnish traffic signs at the bridge. Designed according to the originals (liikennemerkki). 

First sitting test on the horses (Dragon, Tamiya) 

Headless, armless, earless. 

After and before: Right leg of a German Cossack (Dragon) and left leg transformed into a finnish cavalryman 

NCO (left) and cavalryman (right). Both are from the kit German Cavalry Division (Dragon #6046). 

Officer with a new head from The Bodi. The body is a German Cossack (Dragon). More carving is necessary. 

Mounted infantryman (Tamiya) + new head (The Bodi) = finnish cavalryman. The belt buckle has to be removed. 

Cavalryman: torso of Cossack 2 + head of Cossack 1 (Dragon) + legs, which have to be carved (Tamiya, mounted infantry) + Helmet (?),
may be kuk-WW1-Type (ICM) - a donation of a Hungarian countess. 

Using a fine saw - the beginning of a metamorphosis. German mounted infantry (Tamiya). New Helmet or new head? I've bought Italian heads with M33-Helmet (Hornet).  

Planning the bridge 

Ratsumies (= finn. cavalryman). Huumola. 1939.12.14
Source: "SA-kuva" (Finnish Armed Forces photograph) 

Taistelumaastoja (battlefield), bunkkereita (bunker) , korsuja (shelters).
Perkjärvi 1943.09.01
Source: "SA-Kuva" (Finnish Armed Forces photograph)
Topographic map Perkjärvi 1938: cf. discusmedia.com/maps/karelia/9105/ (3.7.2024)
 

The last horse in piglet pink (Livestock II, Tamiya). It will be used as a pack animal. The carrying frame has to be homemade using information to the reindeer (ICM) and a field manual "Use of pack animals". 

There is something to change about the Tamiya horse. Finnish military saddles had no saddle horn. Seen on a picture of an online auction. 

Reality is always the best template. Lutto 16.7.1942
Source: "SA-kuva" (Wartime Archive - Finnish Armed Forces photograph)
 

The waiting cavalry group. 

1 x Dragon (back right), 3 x Tamiya - 2 x heads: The Bodi (front right and back left) - 1 x helmet: ICM (front left).
More to come.