gets started with Flintloque.
We expect the release of the plastic French Napoleonic Heavy Cavalry to be late September - maybe earlier, depending on when the boxes are ready. There'll be 14 in the box for £15.00 GBP.
Here's a sneak preview of a few made-up and two of the frames, the troopers and the horse frame. As you can see, there are a couple of casualties on the horse frame - one British infantryman, one French infantryman - as well some battlefield debris. The carbines are designed in their buckets and lashed to the pommel, so can be left off if desired.
Peter Dennis has done the striking artwork for the box cover.
Oilskin covers and tashes
There's an interesting debate on this forum on the 'Scots Greys' appearance at Waterloo, although I think it's been resolved now. Just my 2p worth… The best contemporary source for them is James Howe's painting of them in bivouac before Waterloo. He accompanied the regiment on the Belgian Campaign and drew them from life. In the original of the painting, they are wearing oilskins without plumes (but of course, this was in bivouac and it was raining then) and taches. During the battle, Wellington was continually putting on and taking off his cloak at the sign of a shower, maybe the 'Greys' did the same thing with their covers as they were waiting behind the ridge, bearskin caps were (are) expensive bits of kit. Corporal Dickson's comment - "I had lost the plume of my bearskin on passing through the second column, a musket shot had carried it away" - is very interesting (I hadn't come across that before), you can't get better than that. The contemporary artist Dennis Dighton's famous painting of Sergeant Ewart capturing the Eagle of the 45th, painted soon after the event, shows both Ewart and an officer in uncovered bearskins, and one in the background which you can't tell if he's an NCO or not. The rest of the troopers are in oilskins. Maybe NCOs uncovered for recognition purposes…?
Most are wearing moustaches in the painting.
Ensigns for the Light Infantry
I had forgotten about Ensign Leeke and those pesky 52nd. I will be making a command pack for the 52nd, who carried their colours through the Peninsular to Waterloo - which means that you'll be able to represent all your Lights with colours if you feel the need to… looking at GMB Designs flags, it is hard to resist…