Hi Damian,
I got the first Connaisseur figure just before it was sold out, but unfortunately it was not worth the price in my own opinion. It was a nice figure as of the sculpting but the painting did not make it worth some $200.00, so I immediately sold it again.
Maybe I expected too much when ordering a "connaisseur" figure.
This Cuirassier looks great as of the picture and it probably will be sold out before I will have a chance to see it eye to eye, but I will skip this one and rather go for three or four cavalry pieces of the regular series.
Unless you have a dealer close by to look at that piece you will have to trust the web picture and that's what I did on the first one but it did not work out for me.
Konrad