"Squares Update" Topic

The next stage of my Waterloo project will focus on the French cavalry charges and to that end I've been working on three double battalion squares from Chasse's Division. This has been a huge amount of work, and in all amounts to some 3,000 figures.

Chasse's Division had been deployed to the West of Wellington's line at Braine L'Alleud but were brought in to the rear of the centre to form six double battalion squares. The units were a mix of Dutch Line, Belgian Line, Militia and Chasseurs. I'm hugely indebted to my team of painters who have helped with these figures.

Since it was sunny, I decided to get out all my completed squares and do a quick stocktake as follows:

2nd Dutch/35th Chasseurs Complete
4th/6th Dutch Militia Complete
12th/13th Dutch Line Complete
3rd/10th Dutch Militia Not done
3rd Belgian/36th Chasseurs Under way
17th/19th Militia Not done
1st KGL Complete
2nd KGL Complete
3rd KGL Complete
4th KGL Ready
71st HLI Complete
2nd 95th Complete
3rd/95th Ready
Half 52nd Complete
Half 52nd Complete
2nd/1st Foot Guards Complete
3rd/1st Foot Guards Complete
Saltzgitter Complete
Bremevorde Complete
Osnabruck Complete
Quackenbruck Complete
1st/51st Complete
1st/23rd RWF Complete
3rd/14th Buff Ready
2nd 69th/1st 33rd Complete
2nd 30th/2nd 73rd Complete
Bremen/Verden Complete
York/Grubenhagen Complete
5th KGL Under way
8th KGL Complete
1st KGL Light Not done
2nd KGL Light Complete
Nassau 1st/1st Complete
2nd/1st Complete
3rd/1st Complete
Brunswick 1st Line red Complete
2nd Line green nearly complete
3rd Line white under way
1st Brunswick Light yellow Complete
2nd Light buff Not complete
3rd Light orange Not complete
79th Camerons Complete
1st 95th Complete
1st 28th Glosters Complete
1st/32nd Cornwalls white Complete
1st/4th King's Own blue Not done
1st/27th Inniskilling Complete
2nd/40th South Somersets buff Not done

Add these to the four battalions at Hougoumont, the 2nd Light KGL at la Haye Sainte and the battalion of Nassauers at Papelotte, 46 Allied battalions are complete. There are also 14 Prussian battalions complete, making 60 battalions, roughly 30,000 men. This figures does not include artillery, cavalry, staff, or of course, the French. Phew, this has taken some time!

Incredible.

Tom

Absolutely amazing.

That's pretty impressive. Quite the visualization.

Ridiculously good! A truly impressive piece of work.

Fantastic.

Excellent work from the master of the ‘Grand Manner'.

Chris

So the Inniskillings 1/27th are described above as "Complete", because this is set at about 1800, as I recall. Couple of hours later their square (indeed most squares) would have looked much more "irregular", indeed, less geometric.

I recall an image of many of the squares set out on your lawn as a dry run of their positioning on the end product. That was quite remarkable in illustrating the planned scale of the ultimate model.

Wow

There's a lot going on here. Great work

Kind Regards

J