Another one finished, a Hauptmann of the Grenadier-Garde-Battalion, casting from Tradtion...

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Here is perhaps the most exotic of soldiers in Frederick's army, a Bosniak officer, in the uniform introduced at or after the end of the war:

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The Bosniaks were lancers, and they had unusual origins.  In 1744, Saxon King August III authorized recruiting cavalry from southeast and eastern Europe, thinking to capitalize on the common fear in Germany of anything remotely "Turkish".  An Albanian jeweler-turned-recruiter, Stephan Serkis, recruited about 50 riders and took them to Warsaw to enter August's service.  When he found that the court official who had held the money to pay the men had gambled it away, Serkis turned to the Prussians and offered his services to Frederick.  The Bosniaks were attached to the Black Hussars, and their ranks increased by recruiting Germans, Poles, and Hungarians alongside the original Tartars and other types.  Their service record during the Seven Years War is debated, and the unit was nearly wiped out several times and re-raised.  But it would be another generation and the emergence of the Uhlan, before lancers would take a permanent place among the cavalry.

This casting is from the Franklin Mint, and has pretty good, crisp detail.  It was originally issued in a pewter finish.  I primed it with Tamiya surface primer and painted it with matte acrylics, then gave it a couple of coats of Future.  I've been experimenting with using the clear acrylic to make glazes, taking John Firth's work as an example.  I used the technique a little bit on this next batch, four Bayreuth Dragoons, also from Franklin Mint:

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