| Hubbynz | 30 Oct 2012 4:34 p.m. PST |
To take a lil break from my smelly lil hobbits I painted up a command base for Napoleonic 2nd Coldstream guards unit I painted a few years back. The unit depicts the famous defense of the Hougoumont at Waterloo. As an overall unit I don't think they look to shabby really although the lighting in the photos don't really do them too many favours. Figs are a mix of Victrix, Perry and Front Rank and I have another base to do to complete the unit at some point. Uniforms might not be 100% accurate but meh….. Heaps of other stuff on my blog halflinghouse.blogspot.com.au
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| cavcrazy | 30 Oct 2012 6:18 p.m. PST |
Great looking unit, very nicely done. |
| Ashenduke | 30 Oct 2012 6:40 p.m. PST |
Like the way they turned out and seeing how successful you are with mixing the various manufacturers. Think your photography and lighting is excellent really shows off the uniforms and blue facing colors. |
| Whatisitgood4atwork | 30 Oct 2012 7:13 p.m. PST |
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| trailape | 30 Oct 2012 8:20 p.m. PST |
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| Artilleryman | 31 Oct 2012 1:27 a.m. PST |
Excellent figures. Small point though, the King's Colour was always positioned to the right of the Regimental Colour as they faced forward. |
| vaughan | 31 Oct 2012 1:44 a.m. PST |
Guards had a different flag structure, I believe those illustrated are correctly positioned for them. |
| Artilleryman | 31 Oct 2012 2:44 a.m. PST |
Whoops. I stand corrected. The Guards always were different. |
| John de Terre Neuve | 31 Oct 2012 7:48 a.m. PST |
Great looking figures and I learnt something, I did not know about the reversed order on Guard flags. John |
| Blue Max | 31 Oct 2012 8:56 a.m. PST |
I like the atmosphere, it really shows the chaos of the battle |
| Sparker | 01 Nov 2012 2:59 a.m. PST |
Guards had a different flag structure, I believe those illustrated are correctly positioned for them. Any sources for this please? I know there has been a lot of recent research about this question by the Project Hougomont team, but the last I heard nothing conclusive had suggested that the King's Colour was not in the traditional senior position on the right at Waterloo? Although it would seem that Brian Palmer has the same juxtaposition in his painting of the Royal Scots…
Fantastic modelling and painting, by the way! |
| vaughan | 01 Nov 2012 5:25 a.m. PST |
"Any sources for this please?" see here:
tmg110.tripod.com/british12.htm
In particular:
"A battalion of Guards employed either the Colonel's, the Lieutenant-Colonel's or the Major's Colour as the King's Colour, with one Company Colour employed as the Regimental Colour" which means that the large Union flag acts as a regimental colour rather than the King's colour. I have also seen references to this in books on flags I own. |
| GMB Designs | 01 Nov 2012 5:27 a.m. PST |
The crimson colour was the King's colour in the Guards Regiments. The badged union flags were the company colours. This was the reverse of the Line regiments where the Union flag was the King's colour, with the regimental in the facing colour. Nice flags by the way ;) Grahame
gmbdesigns.com |
| Gemini Serpentes | 04 Nov 2012 2:09 p.m. PST |
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| Hubbynz | 07 Nov 2012 2:17 p.m. PST |
thanks for all of the kind comments but to be honest it was a complete fluke that I got the flags the correct way around ha!! |
builds a cutter and a corsair, both in 1/1200 scale.
