And here is the latest figure off my bench, the great Seydlitz himself, as he appeared at the Battle of Rossbach (5. November 1757):

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Seydlitz is said to have given the signal for the Prussian cavalry to charge the French and Reichsarmee, by tossing his pipe into the air.

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This casting is from Peipp, and it's massive, with the horse cast solid. It's quality is a little disappointing, compared to other offerings from Peipp. The surface was pebbled and bumpy, and there really was no way to clean all of it. Also, some of the detail is a little soft, such as the crests on his shabraque and holster covers. I would rather have just had those details left off, and I'd have painted them from scratch. But I couldn't pass it up, and I also got Peipp's Ziethen figure, which is much better.

Of the man himself, contemporaries wrote of him that he embodied martial virtues and conduct, and his talents as a commander of men and as a tactician were such that he was promoted from captain to colonel, to major general then lieutenant general, in the space of 5 years. Seydlitz deserves most of the credit for developing the Prussian line cavalry into a fine fighting force, whose pride it was to charge and attack first, never to be attacked, with a high standard of performance. Seydlitz himself was a excellent rider. He was also a notorious womanizer, and eventually succumbed to venereal disease, passing at the relatively young age of 52.

Now I just need to get some cuirassiers to go with him....