C M DODSON | 30 Oct 2017 11:36 a.m. PST |
Die Schlacht von Ligny 16th Juni 1815 Timeline 9.00PM Grenadiers and Chasseurs a Pied of the Guard Imperial are engaged with Prussian Kurmark Landwehr in the Bois du Loop. Their advance is remorseless. url=https://postimg.org/image/3xbhcp7wl/]
The Prussian rearguard at Brye has collapsed. Feldmarschall Gebhard Lebrecht, Furst Blucher von Wahlstadt orders the 1st Korps reserve cavalry, Generallieutenenant Friedrich Ehard von Roeder to attack the advancing Guard infantry. Forever the cavalryman, Marschall Vorwarts, leads the attack personally. url=https://postimg.org/image/mmyvfpb9h/]
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However, the Heavy Cavalry Division of the Guard, Lieutenant-general Claude-Etienne, Comte Guyot, has begun to deploy on the outskirts of Ligny. The Grenadiers a Cheval supported by cuirassiers of the 14th Division, Lieutenant-general Baron Jacques-AntoineDelort immediately counter attack. url=https://postimg.org/image/lbvpkz51h/]
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There are no reserves, the die are cast, night is approaching, avant mes braves, Vorwarts meine kinder! |
C M DODSON | 30 Oct 2017 11:36 a.m. PST |
Die Schlacht von Ligny 16th Juni 1815 Timeline 9.00PM Grenadiers and Chasseurs a Pied of the Guard Imperial are engaged with Prussian Kurmark Landwehr in the Bois du Loop. Their advance is remorseless. url=https://postimg.org/image/3xbhcp7wl/]
The Prussian rearguard at Brye has collapsed. Feldmarschall Gebhard Lebrecht, Furst Blucher von Wahlstadt orders the 1st Korps reserve cavalry, Generallieutenenant Friedrich Ehard von Roeder to attack the advancing Guard infantry. Forever the cavalryman, Marschall Vorwarts, leads the attack personally. url=https://postimg.org/image/mmyvfpb9h/]
url=https://postimg.org/image/hxdj4u9mt/]
url=https://postimg.org/image/8ukgk2khx/]
url=https://postimg.org/image/r3vts4ev9/]
url=https://postimg.org/image/6tyiczdqd/]
However, the Heavy Cavalry Division of the Guard, Lieutenant-general Claude-Etienne, Comte Guyot, has begun to deploy on the outskirts of Ligny. The Grenadiers a Cheval supported by cuirassiers of the 14th Division, Lieutenant-general Baron Jacques-AntoineDelort immediately counter attack. url=https://postimg.org/image/lbvpkz51h/]
url=https://postimg.org/image/q0bpg5u85/]
There are no reserves, the die are cast, night is approaching, avant mes braves, Vorwarts meine kinder! |
C M DODSON | 30 Oct 2017 11:40 a.m. PST |
Apologies for this mess. The format asked me to cross post which I did and then said error not cross posted. Now it has done this! |
HappyHiker | 30 Oct 2017 11:56 a.m. PST |
Wow, just wow. Is this from a museum display ? |
deadhead | 30 Oct 2017 12:15 p.m. PST |
Do not apologise……… this we have been waiting for. The suspense is unbearable…I have a bad feeling about this. I think old Blucher could end up in a dangerous situation, which would make a great diorama that no one has done. He really will then have to retreat back to Namur, along his lines of communication and let DoW fall back on Antwerp or Ostend. Brussels be damned! |
Chalfant | 30 Oct 2017 12:15 p.m. PST |
No apologies, that looks fantastic, worth scrolling through twice. Chalfant |
Tango01 | 30 Oct 2017 12:32 p.m. PST |
Superb job! Congrats!!!!
Amicalement Armand
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14Bore | 30 Oct 2017 1:16 p.m. PST |
I had no idea they had color cameras in 1815, learn something every day. |
N0tt0N | 30 Oct 2017 4:04 p.m. PST |
Incredible photography and staging. Amazing |
Marc at work | 31 Oct 2017 1:32 a.m. PST |
Always lovely to see Thank you from another 1/72 fan |
deadhead | 31 Oct 2017 11:00 a.m. PST |
Happy Hiker. There is a tragic story to tell. There have been so many postings of this series, progressing through every half hour or so…up to this. Superb pictures, so I thought I would send you some links eg TMP link "Aye, but here's the rub" All the earlier superb postings have now fallen foul of the Photobucket scam. Unless you subscribe, suddenly you cannot cross post images elsewhere. So much is lost |
C M DODSON | 31 Oct 2017 11:34 a.m. PST |
Hi Deadhead. Yes Photobuckets extortion racket was a problem and I am reposting my work with Post Image who incidentally are a lot more efficient. In the meantime the whole run to date is available on Bennoes figure forum for those who wish to look. Thank you again to everyone for their kind comments. Best wishes, Chris |
deadhead | 31 Oct 2017 11:55 a.m. PST |
Well Tango has now reposted the last one, which I linked to above, and I do see that Benno's Figure Forum does carry earlier images, if one is prepared to register. But this needs to go back to the top, above the earlier one, or it will be missed by many. The series has been truly remarkable |
C M DODSON | 31 Oct 2017 12:29 p.m. PST |
Hi Deadhead. You do not have to register to view. Chris |
Lieutenant Lockwood | 31 Oct 2017 7:20 p.m. PST |
Fantastic! Well done indeed! |
C M DODSON | 02 Nov 2017 10:56 a.m. PST |
Hello Mr. Deadhead. My good friend Thomas Mischak has very kindly provided this link showing the Feldmarschall in trouble based on the old Art Minituran set. I was going to buy this set for the figures but it was withdrawn a few years ago. 1/72 of course! link Best wishes, Chris |
deadhead | 02 Nov 2017 12:20 p.m. PST |
Oh that is superb. Obviously had to be both 1/72 and from Germany to be of this quality. So true to the famous painting. It has always surprised me that this is not more often seen, by the manufacturers, as a superb diorama, in any scale. Perrys gave us taking of eagles and of a KGL flag in their limited vignette range, If one moment was pivotal to outcome in the Cent Jours, this incident must be a strong contender. Blucher dead or a prisoner, would his successor have marched east or west from Wavre (if there at all)? No Plancenoit, then no Waterloo disaster for Napoleon. |
C M DODSON | 02 Nov 2017 12:51 p.m. PST |
Hi, I am glad you liked it. There were so many what if in this, the most famous of campaigns and you are right, this is one of them. However, the disobedience of a direct order from his majesty to crush Bluchers flank by D'Erlon as the Ligny action evolved must be pivotal. The annilation of one or two Korps rather than just being battered would have left the Duke on his own. This after all was his Majesties initial plan. Best wishes, Chris |
deadhead | 02 Nov 2017 1:38 p.m. PST |
Oh true, but that was not a matter of an instant in time and not something that can be modelled as such. One could maybe model Grouchy eating his fruit for breakfast, whilst everyone is berating him……or even less impressive Ney sitting around all morning, instead of clearing Quatre Bras. What your model shows is an instant that changed everything. I have often wondered how to do it in 28mm…… With your photographic skills and more cavalry in the background this would be prize winning |
4th Cuirassier | 03 Nov 2017 6:19 a.m. PST |
Hussey shows quite persuasively that had the Prussians retreated east, Wellington would have had to fall back on Antwerp. He simply did not have the sea lift capability required to support a line of communications routed through northwest Germany, which would have been four times longer than the route he was using. Nor could he have assumed the Netherlands would remain loyal to the allies so nowhere nearer could have been relied on. Ligny and Wavre show quite persuasively that had Wellington not been to the west, Blucher's army would have been eliminated on day 2 or day 3 of the campaign. |
rob polymathsw | 03 Nov 2017 8:17 a.m. PST |
Just awesome… I love it, I'm with the story the whole way. Great fun! |