"18 june, 1815" Topic

Hi folks!
Thought i would share this vignette that I finished this morning.
It is of the famous capturing of the eagle of the 45 Ligne by Seargent Ewart of the "Scots Greys" at the battle of Waterloo.
I realize that there should be tall rhye and lots of mud, but I opted not to.
the minis are painted by our friend Stoneman 1815 (John), and he does fantastic work! I have added some casualty figures of my own hand, but the credit belongs to him.
more photos of it over on my Flickr.
Thanks for looking, and feel free to comment of correct any obviuous mistakes by me;)

Cheers!
Dr J

‌Seargent Ewart captures the eagle of the 45de Ligne, 18 june 1815, Battle of Waterloo by Erik Salvador, on Flickr

great compliments to John Stoneman 1815

Stirring stuff! Well done, Sgt. Ewart!

Lovely work, well done
JJ

'Two hands on the staff, man, never mind that shouldered musket!'

It's brought last summer back to life ;)

Very nicely done. The lad doing the back hand looks decidedly aggressive…

I do wonder about the tall rye and lots of mud. The latter of course. The former?

Crops' height was mentioned by every account of Quatre Bras as major tactical issue. Then comes a torrential downpour. Much less mention at Waterloo.

Wheat, grass, rye, etc will be flattened, but rise again eventually. Maize will stand, but that is almost impossible to walk through anyway. It struck me looking across our back fields this morning than 24 hours of rain has simply flattened what was three to four feet high. It will pull your shoes off and soak your legs, but would not block visibility.

Yes, that back hand looks much more business like than the rest of the swordswork! Would not like to be on the end of that……..I do like the figure. Where is he from? Tell me personal conversion and I will be really impressed!

Lookin at the ground on the vignette in the picture it definetly lacks something, I think I will try to add more "mud" by applying some chunks of glue/dark brown paint mixed and then varnished matt.
Maybe also add some trampeled crops..good point Deadhead.

The Grey with the mean back-hand is from the AB-set. The set consists of 3 cavalry (the 3 in the foregraound on the vignette), and John added another 2 just to make it a little more "crowded".
I do ofcourse wish I had the talent to make conversions like Paul Alba, he makes the best ones in my opinion!

You have just made me laugh out loud. I thought these were 28mm figures based around the Perrys' set of Ewart, but without the lancer. Never dreamt they were 15/18mm figures. Incredible work. I thought it was excellent for 28mm frankly!

No wonder I did not recognise him………….

I've a few photos of cavalry 'swimming' through crops/grass at the bicentennial last year, so depending on the height of troops and undulating ground, it could make details of infantry at least hard to make out.

Mind you, I also recall reading somewhere that that the wheat in Normandy during the Second World War was different to the current crop and much higher, which might explain why tootling around there nowadays you don't seem to have the same issues of visibility that were referred to in contemporary accounts.