These represent the Old Guard Chasseurs of Cambronne and Pelet. Again the good thing of making Imperial Guard is that you can use them across the Napoleonic wars without any particular important uniform changes. Here they have the blue trousers that apparently equipped all of them at Waterloo as they were pretty well uniformed on the contrary of the Middle Guard.
The cartridge box was painted white as per the protection that the Imperial Guard had for this item of equipment.
All figures are Revell. This box works very well within itself as you can make a nice firing or advancing line. Only the kneeling figure was discarded as it would look a bit out of subject. The problem of Revell figures (if it can be considered a problem) is their slim figures with small heads, but I think they do it on purpose as to have distance to, say, Airfix and Esci, not counting the more recent eastern brands.
Next: The Jeune Garde (Tirailleurs and Voltigeurs)
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