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

Coronavirus Challenge Part V

Well here is the very last batch of twelve figures of the 32^nd Foot. I finally finished these yesterday and the regiment is now complete. The only thing to do now is to sort out their regimental flag and attach it to the flag pole. Total painted in lockdown is 49. I have a project that I started painting way back in 2005 and now that I have done a bit more research on them I can now carry on with the regiment.

                          

Coronavirus Challenge Part IV

We are in week six of the UK lockdown and I have now finished the third batch of twelve figures of the 32^nd Foot. You may notice that the officer and standard bearer are not from the Airfix set. They are in fact from the HaT 8304 British Command set. Just a note, if you are thinking about getting some of these figures that enamel paint does not go on very well. With matt colours the plastic/rubber figures, seem to soak up the paint and so you will need to give them an under coat before applying the colour you want. They are really lovely figures with good detail on them. I shall use more of these in later projects.

The standard bearer will receive their regimental colours when all 48 figures are painted. I have now completed 37 figures for my coronavirus challenge. So on with the next final batch of twelve. Stay safe everyone.