In fact they arrived, but while the Belgian Line Infantry fought valiantly and suffered large quantity of casualties at Waterloo (the 7th got around 250 casualties), Trip´s heavy cavalry wandered in the edge of the battlefield even if it had clear orders to attack. Together with Cumberland´s Hussars, Trip´s heavies didn´t perform as expected and entered into the page of shame of the battle.
Trip´s 1st Carabineers started its life as Peninsular British dragoons lovely converted by TC from Esci Scots Greys. The bicorne was made in some kind of paste and cleverly attached to the heads of the Esci figures.
The 2nd Carabineers were painted straight from the box of Italeri French Carabineers. Only some file was used to erase the detail of the front cuirass, as these ones didn´t use it. Fortunately the Italeri Carabineers don´t have large cuirasses and thus they look ok just with a paint job.
The valiant 7th Belgian Line Infantry stands here for the entire Bylandt Brigade. The figures are mostly Hat Belgians that started their life as Portuguese infantry painted by TC. The jackets were already dark blue and just had to be slightly toned down and the cuffs, collars, backpacks, weapons and belts were already in the right colors. Only the trousers and some minor details were repainted together with a new flag.
Here are the three brands that contributed to this unit: a flag bearer from Hat; drummer and officer from Italeri and a NCO from Airfix.
Very nice. I have a soft spot for the carabineers. They were my one contribution to a Waterloo refight at my club in about 1984! They were repaints too - 15mm Warrior British Lifeguards! It was my first experience with Warrior; little did I know that 30 years later I would be adding figures to John’s 25mm range! Sadly, it looks like they are gone for good.
ReplyDeleteThanks Jeffers. Explain me that "adding figures to John 25mm range".
ReplyDeleteI sculpted some additional figures for the Warrior 25mm Napoleonic range. They dated from the mid 1970s and the original sculptor had long since passed away. John, the owner, has now retired through ill health. Sadly, some of the figures I did were never produced.
DeleteThanks I didn´t know that. When I was making 28s I remember looking at the Warrior range and thinking how nice and affordable they were, so congratulations. But then brexit came and ruined everything and ordering from England became hell.
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