If you want to avoid trouble making converted Nassau infantry like this you can go to two boxes of Hat: one is the older Lutzow Freikorps & Nassau grenadiers, which gives nice Nassau figures with colpacks, and the more recent and larger set of 100 figures of exclusive Nassau figures.
I have none of them as I my Waterloo was entirely 28mm. Besides I have excess Italeri new French which can give very reasonable Nassauers.
Some changes need to be done to produce voltigeurs and grenadiers. The voltigeurs were made from Hat figures with cut down shako plumes and coat tails as you can see to the left; the grenadiers are new Italeri with Airfix heads over 50 years old but nice for these ones. Besides using Hat or Italeri figures you are somewhat right as the uniform is mostly French influenced as the typical waist coat shown in many period images was discarded in the last adopted jacket. In both these boxes the buttons need to be carved out as all Nassauers only used them at the middle.
The centre of the flag was handpainted on top of a Dutch print with two lions.
Another interesting feature of the Nassau infantry was their waterproof covered white shako and (at least in Haythornthwaite Uniforms of Waterloo) also white covered cartridge boxes. MSJ1815 only places the 2nd regiment with shakos on the grenadiers but I like these with colpacks as this is a typical Nassau thing.
The Hat voltigeurs had several coats of wood glue on the shako plates and cut out cords.
The Italeri/Airfix grenadiers only have these two poses due to the sabre and epaulettes but the end result is reasonable.
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