"The La Haye Sainte" Topic

Anyone has buyed this set?
If the answer is yes, comments please?

From here
4ground.co.uk

Thanks in advance for your guidance.

Amicalement
Armand

This might help as it shows many more pictures. Appeared here earlier today;

I love the pond though. Did not see that earlier!

TMP link

I can't open that link from work, but can anybody who can advise if it is correctly scaled? If you look at LHS today in Streetview it is clear that the southernmost building has been extended east at some point so that the eastern end of that building lines up with the outer wall of the eastern flanking building. I'm not sure from the photo above whether this represents that.

According to Google Earth La Haye Sainte is huge, eg around 50m x 60m for just the main quadrangle. It is actually very hard to reflect correctly in a wargame, because if you depict it with a building that's correct in proportion to your units,you can use perhaps one of the buildings shown in the model. But if you depict it large enough to see the groundplan properly it will dominate the battlefield.

You are so right. No model can ever reflect the true ground imprint of the enclosure, let alone the orchard/garden etc.

All any models have done, since the Airfix effort…is capture the right look. This is grossly "incorrectly scaled" but is a marvellous reconstruction nonetheless.

The barn indeed is always shown in the earliest plans as having had its west face set back from the outer stable walls. It now is flush with it. This has surely been extended at some stage and we must remember how damaged the barn was by cannon fire. The famous burnt door gate into the barn was surely a few feet further east than the current situation.

Changes apply even more at Hougoumont. The barn with the worrying crack in the present north end wall is shown as totally flattened in contemporary prints. A few brick pillars at most…by all means restore what is there now but I am afraid it is unlikely to be what was there on 18.06.15…..