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Tango01 Supporting Member of TMP30 Jan 2025 3:52 p.m. PST

Really nice!


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Gazzola30 Jan 2025 5:17 p.m. PST

Nice one!

Oberlindes Sol LIC Supporting Member of TMP31 Jan 2025 9:20 a.m. PST

Great job

Personal logo deadhead Supporting Member of TMP31 Jan 2025 9:56 a.m. PST

Thomas Mischak who painted these has been a great supporter of and donor to the Waterloo in 20mm project. Hagen produce some very unusual and welcome figures in 1/72 scale for Napoleonic Modelling. I had always called 28mm The One True Scale, but my entire collection has now gone to a charitable cause and I consider TOTS to be 20mm or 1/72 (not quite the same thing I know)

What I find fascinating is the original painting on top. There, in the background, is a small cart puled by two horses (one looking a bit under the weather). It only has two wheels and has a pitched roof. This is surely an ammunition cart and only the second time I have ever found a representation of what Private Brew(st?)er drove into Hgmt.

Tango01 Supporting Member of TMP31 Jan 2025 3:02 p.m. PST

Happy you like it my good friends…


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CHRIS DODSON Supporting Member of TMP01 Feb 2025 7:00 a.m. PST

Good work by Thomas as always.

Good spot by Mr D but to my mind it looks very Russian and the driver normally was on the left hand side looking forward in the direction of travel.

That cuirassier is a bit lost at Hougoumont I feel.

Artistic licence?

Best wishes,

Chris

Personal logo deadhead Supporting Member of TMP01 Feb 2025 8:28 a.m. PST

It is indeed much smaller than the "Tumbril" shown in the one painting to show Brewer of the RWT. Perrys do something very like it in 28mm, the Russian range indeed. I think the model of HGMT did actually use a Russian ammo cart to portray his brave deed. I plan to scratch built a number of them (and indeed the ridden horse is on the left!)

Baron von Wreckedoften II03 Feb 2025 7:56 a.m. PST

What I find fascinating is the original painting on top. There, in the background, is a small cart puled by two horses (one looking a bit under the weather). It only has two wheels and has a pitched roof. This is surely an ammunition cart and only the second time I have ever found a representation of what Private Brew(st?)er drove into Hgmt.

Interesting. All the accounts of the ammunition delivery I have seen suggest it was a four-wheeled "wagon" (as opposed to a "cart" – the term usually used to describe something with only two wheels). The Perrys also make an ammunition wagon (new style) in their British range, which has four wheels. Not saying anyone here has got it wrong, but just that it always struck me as being a bigger beast.

That cuirassier is a bit lost at Hougoumont I feel.

Possibly – and somewhat unwisely – stopped to ask for directions?

Personal logo deadhead Supporting Member of TMP03 Feb 2025 8:59 a.m. PST

Thanks for your comment on something that I have found very challenging. The only first hand description I know of was from the chap who told Brewer (or Brewster) of the need and he describes a "Tumbril", an archaic term, but suggesting a single axle. He talks of his "horses", so a single driver and more than one horse, either double draft fore and aft or side by side.

The Perry wagon is an artillery ammunition cart. NR created it in 28mm for them and in 20mm for Schilling. I have recently shown 8 of the latter on the Gallery. They stayed well back and were used to refill the caissons.There are nice plans in CE Franklin's book

But small arms ammo supply to the infantry? The advice on this forum has been that it came in "casks", left somewhere a bit behind the front line. Mules surprisingly featured a lot, and not just in Spain. I now have a scale drawing of a small arms cart from the AWI and all it lacks is that pitched roof to fit in with 1815 and the Royal Waggon Train at Hgmt. Curious that something so essential seems so poorly documented. Baring's rifle ammo is always written of as ending up in overturned "cart" on the Brussels road

The artist in this picture certainly did his (or her) homework. The details of the Guards' distinctive uniforms is praiseworthy. Notice for example the buckles on the cross belt for the ammo pouch, or the gold lace for the NCO, the green cords and feather on the cap, blue shoulder wings etc

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