"Brunswick Horse Artillery for Waterloo Remodelled" Topic

Nearly finished a major project Five French six pounders plus limbers and a caisson for each. The drivers are HaT from the ambulance model, the foot figures are Art Miniaturen. Odd models frankly. The coat tails are great for drivers, but the laced front is wrong. Then, for the gunners, the laced front is right but that tailed coat? I know about Knotel's one image but I wonder if he was looking a bit after 1815.

Gunners serving the pieces will be next to mount and photograph. Then the officers and horse holders, not forgetting the British style limbers and caissons.

Wow!

Impressive!

Amazing job. You are very talented.

very nice, how did you create the drag ropes for the horse teams?

Thanks all. Glad you like them

The drag ropes? The best are the braided wire you sometimes (not always) get with AM artillery vehicles.

The simplest ones are brass wire, which is very easy to work with.

Finally, some are plastic ropes from Zvezda. Beautifully modelled, but plastic, so no idea how well paint will stay on

What a super impressive sight! Amazing amount of detail – can't imagine how long all of that took!

Believe me, my wife could tell you. Many interruptions and much conversion work, before even starting on painting. Three months and now only a few officers' horses to paint.

Then those British style limbers and caissons of course

I'm just back from my travels abroad and am bowled over by this battery which has arrived in the post in no less than three boxes. The photos are great, but the reality is even better. I am hugely grateful to Liam for this magnificent addition to the Waterloo project.

How relieved am I? Eggs in baskets basically. Lass int' post office said "Eh lad, tha could have fitted tut lot int' the one box and saved few bob".

I thought three boxes split the risk. Thank God for HM the King's Postal Service.

and he is right, the photos are not the best. Though I say it myself, the gun line and occifers plus horse holders are better. Finished today.

Apologies for missing this labour of love whilst noticing the gun line.

Fabulous work Mr D.

You have done a great job with the Hat chaps.

I like them as the soft plastic is easy to carve into effectively a dolly which can then be clad as your preferred historical period.

Ie my Antietam project.

For the braiding in future just use the leg bit, stick a braided torso on and then add the arms and head.

Egbert, the conversion King, on Gerschite im Miniturian or Bennoes leads the way in imaginative chopping.

As always. our war gaming friends might like to appreciate how much space these chaps took up in reality.

Excellent stuff in the ‘Grand Manner'.

Best wishes,

Chris

Thanks for that. The HaT plastic is indeed easy to carve and it was so easy to turn the heavy boots of the French drivers into the overalls of the Brunswickers, just shaving off the boot tops basically. The snag of course with soft plastic is getting any paint to adhere.

The conversion ideas are excellent. Any RHA figures with a shako head and added hanging plume would work well. The problem with the really nice AM figures is that they are neither fish nor fowl. The braided front is right for gunners, the coat tails with turnbacks are right for the train. But neither had both. At 10-15 feet minimum who will notice on the final exhibition?

I am amazed at your ongoing dedication to this project Liam. Very impressive efforts 👏👏👏

Have you consider Jorge at Schilling.

His range of Brunswickers are very good and with imagination will fill the ranks.

link

I used them for my Quatre Bras refight and they looked lovely.

Best wishes,

Chris

Apologies I have just spotted the stubby finger mistake.

Considered.

Chris

I placed an order, but could not proceed. They will ship to the Cayman Islands, Cuba or the Cocos Islands, but not to the UK.

Brexit and the bureaucracy involved. I e-mailed them, but that is it. It was such a good idea, it really was…….say no more.

Not a problem.

Have a word with James and see if Thomas can help.

It costs nothing to ask.

Best wishes,

Chris

and the guns and caissons are done. That completes the project (as I have no intention of doing the correct number of horse holders and their charges!)

They look very nice indeed .

Chris

Honestly, if you saw the quality of the 3D prints.

Yes, they are fragile, but I have never come across such modelling, even in 28mm

Yes, printing is undoubtably a fantastic medium but the fragility of the product, whilst excellent for dioramas is not so forgiving for war gaming.

My Speria guys are lovely but I have to be very careful.

Francesco's metals are far more robust.

Best wishes,

Chris

Fragile is so true. The lads with bayonets, which are to scale, are not to be "toyed with". Chopping off the mass of supports is a pain and it is so easy to remove a swaord scabbard for example. But, for display, thye are unbeatable. I still have this concern that the diorama has to outlast Siborne's. He worked with lead figures and, after two centuries, the lead is doing funny things.

How long has plastic or resin been around, to judged its durability?

In answer to that question my Hat French infantry and Guard chasseurs have disintegrated within a few years.

The soft plastic seems to go brittle and then it's off to plastic heaven.

You may remember Airfix tank track rot?

I feel that the harder plastics and metals are a better bet for longevity.

Best wishes,

Chris

Hi Liam, finally decided to ask what has been nagging me each time I see this post. It seems, to my uneducated eye, that the spacing of the horse team is unsually wide. I am more used to seeing the horses nose to tail. Other than that everthing is just amazing.
Regards.
Alan.

Oh indeed far too wide. This spacing on wooden tongue depressors was purely for access, as I painted them. They are secured solely with PVA so that, when they get to James, they can just be soaked in warm water and will lift off. The drag ropes are either brass rod or the brilliant ropes one gets with some Art Miniaturen vehicles and both are easily trimmed.