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Agreed, Imperial/Bavarian cuirassiers with helmets would be great. And they could be used for earlier periods as well starting with 30YW and English Civil War.
I looked at everything I could find to get some suitable cuirassiers for the WoSS. the 30YW/EWCW boxes available are very, very, poor in terms of their pose and equipment selection. The Waterloo 1815 set is an absolute joke. 3 cornets, 3 firing a harquebus from the saddle, three with pistols and 3 with swords. Not great for "Cromwell's Cavalry" famed for charging the opposition. As to using them for head swaps, I'm not inclined to buy a box just to get the heads and throw the rest away, pls they are all turned to the side and wouldn't make good fits for "normal" poses.
The early period kit is virtually the same ECW/30YW/WoSS, but even if there are differences this range really needs some of this cavalry. It is the big, big, gap in the market.
Yes, if I was doing a 30YW project I might be a bit happier with chopping figures about. Alas my P&S figures are all 15mm, so I'm looking for figures IU can use within this period. I happily swap hats (my original 40 year old WoSS armies use Airfix Washington's Army, with spare tricorns swapped onto absolutely anything!), but I think that with heads the direction is important, if the sculpting is any good. Regardless of the possibilities, I think I'll hold on for a month or two and see what emerges.
'Tis an exciting time to be alive, if you are a lover of 1/72 figures.
I'm not sure even judicious trimming would make figures from this end of the 17thC do for figures from the 30YW and ECW.
The main problem is that coats at the time of WSS were fundamentally different - bigger cuffs (much bigger cuffs) and the overall length of the coat itself. Much longer than the earlier coats.
Of course if anyone wants to do this, hey they're your figures, but I would rather this sculptor turn their skills and talents to a dedicated 30YWM/ECW range and turn out what I feel would be the definitive range in 1/72