The 13e Légère/Schmitz Brigade was my last unit to finish D´Erlon corps. Also added are more line artillery with just four other artillery stands missing to complete the whole French army for the Waterloo battle. In a worse shape are the line infantry, with 4/5 brigades missing (counting here Tromelin brigade with only 2 stands), and the "worse" comes from the fact that I only have figures for one or two of these brigades. I hope in my next trip, next week, to find more "bread and butter" French infantry of the likes of Airfix or Italeri.
Schmitz Brigade is made again of Hat 1805 light infantry with a few Hat coats. Some changes are mandatory and the left side plume was cut out and a small part of it was inserted at the the middle front. The 1808-12 cords are still there as cutting/erasing them would make a mess out of the shakoes, at least with my nowadays patience. Again, I like to think that, without acces to the new 1812 shako, these guys asked their wives or mothers to send them the older shakoes and that they arrived by La Poste express to the front lines :).
The cornet and officer are 3d Kozak miniatures.
The artillery guns are Hat with the old but beautiful French Airfix crew.
Next. more French, let´s see what
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