"Waterloo map" Topic

Hi,

I have been working on a Map of Waterloo

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Excellent work!

superb!

Lovely job. Glad to see you preparing for the big one next year.

Superb job!

Wonderful work

A brilliant piece of work, very, very well done. Any plans to put troop dispositions and town labels on, etc.?

Were doing all the battles of 1815 as well next year as part of our 50th club celebrations. All in 6mm. All the figures are painted and ready to go. Will just have to sub some Russians for Prussians at Ligny. Even will over 30,000 figures were still short some.

Beautiful work, and great detail! I wonder could the data be placed over a CNC milling machine?

Very nice map.

Love it! I found your Vitoria map very helpful in understanding that battle, by the way.

Terrific and you seem to be suggesting more to come?

How does the vertical scale compare to the horizontal, (clearly different in order to adequately show the contours)?

Thanks everyone,

I might get around to putting on some labels etc, depends on if I get time. The vertical scale is exaggerated x2.

Yes it might be interesting to see if it could be put through a CNC milling machine

If anyone has a good source for contours of Ligny or Quatres Bras I might have a go at those as well…

Looks great. Are the contours pre or post Lion Mound?

This is an extremely useful map, thanks very much for posting.
Our group is doing Waterloo next year on a battalion level and this will help with the terrain building.

A quick Google search brought up this local topographical model builder.

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Just been looking over it again and appreciating how well done this is. The sunken Ohain road, especially the bank to the south edge suggests pre the mound.

Constructive comment, I hope…..is not la Belle Alliance on the wrong side of the road? Every time I've been, it's been on the East, not the West, side, by the road SE to Plancenoit and the track NE across to Papelotte, Smohain etc……..

Hi there,

Yes I believe this is pre-mound although no provenance is given on the Napoleon Series website from where I obtained the copy I was using.

You may be right about La Belle Alliance, I might have mistaken some buildings further south for it. The map isn't very clear precisely which building is La Belle Alliance, but looking again it does seem to be closer to one on the east side of the road and a little further up, where you suggest. Looks like I picked the wrong one !

They always say that Ney and Boney had just the same problem. The legend is always that they mistook LHS for Mt St Jean Farm (even though again on opposite side of the road and half a mile further on).

Try comparing with any map in Adkin's book and you'll see La Belle Alliance, just move it directly across the road and you'll be right.

The Ohain road lost all of its south bank with the mound. Now the field to the south is a few inches above the road. The north bank is still at least six foot tall. You really need to stand by the Gordon memorial and gaze down to the Brussels Charleroi chausee to appreciate what a drop there was back then. It is the only bit untouched on the West of the highway I think.

It is interesting how you can see Plancenoit is in a hollow, I first appreciated this when I was at the battlefield, but your map conveys info that is hard to see from ordinary maps. It is also interesting how you cannot see Hougomont from La Haie sainte.