Coronavirus Part VIIII

 

A few days ago I finished off painting all of the figures of the Prussian Reserve Infantry, of the 1^st Pomerania Regiment, which would have been completed a lot earlier but I ran out of paint plus the hot weather here in the UK. Here are all of the 45 figures including the officer, shame about the drummer but I might find one one day.  These now brings my painting total up to 94 figures, but what next?

Well I have been thinking about the British 2^nd Dragoons, known as the Scots Grey's., but it’s the thought of painting the horses that is holding me back. Lots of research coming up I think.

32nd Foot

The regiment first fought at the Battle of Quatre Bras, arriving about 3 pm on 16 June 1815 just in time to help halt the French advance. Two days later at the Battle of Waterloo the regiment was stationed opposite the French main attacks, standing their ground before attacking Napoleon's assaulting troops. The 1st Battalion of the regiment was part of the 8th British Brigade commanded by Major-General James Kempt, which was in turn part of the 5th British Infantry Division under Lieutenant-General Thomas Picton. The regiment was commanded on the field by Lieutenant-Colonel John Hicks and numbered at 503 men at the battle of Waterloo having suffered casualties at Quatre Bras. The Regiment suffered the greatest loss of all the British Regiments, losing 516 men in two days out of a total of 662. It was two men of the Grenadier Company that brought Pictons's body away from the battlefield after he was fatally wounded in the head.

32nd Colour Party

Coronavirus Challenge Part II

This is my very first completed painted personality figure and it’s of General Sir Thomas Picton. The figure comes from the Waterloo 1815 set number 028. A very nice figure to paint.

The general came out of retirement after Wellington appointed him to commander the 5th Infantry Division. Along with every other senior officer in the army, he was invited to the Duchess of Richmond's Ball that was held on 15 June 1815. This is how Picton looked on the battle fields of Waterloo as his personal baggage train failed to catch up with him on that famous day with his uniform. So we see him still in his party gear and he even had on his velvet red dancing shoes when he was killed leading his division. He was the most senior officer to die at Waterloo at the age of 56. You can read all about General Picton in the “Marshals and Generals ” label.

My second batch of figures the 32^nd foot, who was under Picton's command, are well on their way to completion.

Wagons Roll

While I have talked about using wagons on the battlefield table, I thought that I would show you my only two of the four wagons that have been painted way back in the 70s. These are the Atlantic ‘Pioniers Wagons’ set number 1052. This set is very hard to find as the company went out of business in 1984 and they are very expensive if you wish to purchase some on the Internet.

As I have said that these are my main wagon supplies for my army back then and even now. The set contained four covered wagons made in brown plastic each pulled by two oxen. These were then a great set to have which also included barrels shovels and pick-axes and a little lantern which could be attached to the back end of the wagons which I think was a nice touch as shown in the pictures. 

The other two wagons in the set have yet to be painted and with some spare Airfix French Line Artillery horses I am going to change the oxen for horses. As you can see that they could be for any army as there are civilians from the set driving them.

Five Years In The Making

 

I have two things to celebrate on this post. First its congratulations to me for I have now finished painting up my Airfix Prussian Landwehr Infantry last Tuesday night. The regiment is the 2/3^rd Elba and I have painted a total 47 of the 48 in the box as I did not want two flags in the regiment. It has taken me five years to complete this regiment. The good news is that I have now painted a total of 35 figures this year and at the moment it looks like it could be a fantastic year for me in the painting department.

 

Second thing to celebrate is that I have now had well over 13,000 hits on my wargaming blog and I would like to thank each and every one of you who have taken a look.

As I said in the last post that I will finish off some that I have started to paint but have never finished them, some going way back to 2005.  The race is on to finish as much as I can before the deadline of 18^th June and maybe think about what next to paint while finishing the rest off.

 

 

At Last a update

I thought that I would bring you up to date with my Regiment of the French Carabiniers (Italeri box No 6003) that I started way back in November last year.

The good news is that I have now completed all of the 17 horses for the regiment as shown above and I can now really go for the troopers. The horse furniture is what I think they had at Waterloo although there is no real evidence of what they were wearing on the 100 days campaign. In the front row are the Officer and Trumpeters horses. Still I hope, like me, that you like what I have done so far.

 

Prussian Foot Artillery

At last I have taken a couple of pictures of the Prussian foot artillery that I finished off painting last year. Sorry to say that the pictures are a bit dull as they were taken on a very dull day, but you can get the general idea of how they look.

At the top is a picture of the Officer and drummer from the HaT Prussian Infantry Command set 8255. As you can see the officer’s right arm is the peg arm and although it’s a good idea from HaT to do this, so you can have a choice of positions with the sword, but putting the arm on the figure had its problems and so I had to cut the peg off when joining them together. But the overall effect makes him look like his arm is out of joint. Still this method should get better as they go along with the sets. The backpack was easy to attach to the figure and they painted up really good.

The drummer was the easiest to put together with is backpack and drum. I think these will look really good on the battle field as the Prussian Artillery set does not have a commander or drummer included in their sets. Both of these figures are made from the new soft plastic.

At the foot of the page, is a picture of some of the artillery crew with most of the elements in place. I have given the unit all four 6lb cannons. This is HaT’s Artillery set 8007 and they are made from the old hard plastic as it was one of the first sets made by HaT. The only problem with these is that their coat-tails are missing, so they went without rather than trying to paint them on. As my Prussian army grows, I think I will need another set of these in the future.

 

 

1st Tirallieurs, Young Guard

Here you are, the very first pictures of the unit. The Young Guard are taking up position may be to take on the Prussians.

Although the pictures are not all that great with my digital camera,

I will try to do some more hopefully with better results.

These figures are from HAT and they are very easy to paint as there is not that much detail on them.