Coronavirus Challenge Part VIII

A few days ago I finished the third batch of twelve figures of the Prussian Reserve Infantry, of the 1^st Pomerania Regiment. The only command element is the officer for this Regiment as I could not find a suitable figure for the drummer. It has nearly taken me a month to do these and the reason for that is down to the warm weather that we had and my bad hay-fever this year. So here they are, that now brings my painting total up to 85 figures. My next and last batch will just consist of just nine figures to bring the regiments total up to 45.

Coronavirus Challenge Part VII

I have now finished the second batch of twelve figures of the Prussian Reserve Infantry, of the 1^st Pomerania Regiment. It has not been easy with my hayfever and the hot weather that we had a couple of weeks ago. So here they are that now brings my painting total up to 73 figures. My next batch will just include the officer now, as I was hoping to have a drummer with the regiment but when I remove the intended drummer off of the spur, from the Prussian command set from HaT, I realised that he was head and shoulders above the rest of the unit. So I have abandoned that idea, which is a shame.

Coronavirus Challenge Part VI

Here is what I am painting for my next unit, the Prussian Reserve Infantry from HaT box number 8052. If you intend to get these just be careful when taking the figures off of the spur as it’s made of hard plastic and I nearly snapped off two of them from their stands. Although there are 48 figures in a box, there are four officers which three will not be needed. There is no drummer or flagbearer in this set so I hope I can find a suitable drummer from another set and they carried no colours, so no problem there.

So the unit that I am painting are the 1^st Pomerania Regiment with white facing and here are the first batch of twelve. Total painted to date 61 figures.

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

News from the Front

At Last HaT have started planning to make the Prussian limber and ammo caissons from their design team. With the pictures that they have posted today, they really do look fantastic and I just cannot wait for them to be produced. Hopefully they will be out some time this year. There are three different types of ammo caissons, although one looks like a covered wagon, and one limber which contain an ammo chest. Just have to wait for the pictures of the horse teams now. I do hope that we can get a box of three caissons and another box of three limbers like their French sets. Just need a British set now. What a great surprise in these bad times.

Picture from the HaT website