28mm AOE Waterloo 1815 - III French Cavalry Reserve Corps (Kellerman)

The full III French Cavalry Reserve Corps in AOE terms, just out of the brush.

Top left- Guiton Cuirassiers; top right- Blancard Carabiniers; bottom right-Picquet Dragoons; bottom left-Donop Cuirassiers.

All figures are plastic Perry Miniatures.

 The blue paper seems to work nicely for these napoleonic figures. I´ve seen it in the Napoleonic Archive booklets about Waterloo. They were also suggested by my good friend PC who knows everything about photos as he works in the porn industry (hey... as a photographer...) and you can see his constant nice remarks on this blog, regarding lingerie and stuff.

Rapid Fire! 1/100th scale British Destroyer E Class, Normandy Landings 1944

This is a british destroyer I made sometime ago. It´s done in 1/100 th scale just because its almost one meter long in this scale and in 1/72nd scale it would be 1,5 meters long  so I would have no place to place it behind glass.

Besides, these sort of large vessels if made in 1/72nd scale can´t do properly what they are intended to in the wargaming table, at least for me, that is to support a landing and shelling the coast line. With 1,5 meters (1/72nd scale) this one would look like stucked in the beach and always too close.

 To make this scratchbuilt piece I used a small 1/600 kit of the same vessel I had hanging around, built it, and used it just for scale increase.

 Then many internet photos were consulted for the detail and painting. Yes, there are two lighters for the funnels.

 Many Evergreen plastic tubing and flat  parts were used in the construction. The bigger parts are balsa wood and that includes the base.

The turrets can turn 360 degrees with the help of Evergreen wonders.

 There are some 30 Skytrex  15mm WWII British Infantry converted to sailors scattered all over.

The one chosen had to belong to a class still operating in the 1944 landings. There were not many E class destroyers by then, but I had to keep track with the 1/600 th scale destroyer I was following as a mock-up.

Rapid Fire! 1/72nd scale LCT 5 and 6, Normandy Landings, 6 June 1944

And now for the american LCT´s. I built four in total: 3 are scratchbuilt and 1 is Britannia Miniatures (resin and metal).

The first photos are of the LCT 5, used in Normandy. They were built with balsa wood and  other parts in plastic card.

 The figures were sent by the late Dave Howitt of Britannia Miniatures. They were part of the LCT 6 model but Dave, as always a helpful person, sent them anyhow.

The two models filled with the usual cargo: the left one with M7 Priests, and the right one with M4 Shermans.

And now for the Britannia LCT 6. This model ws not present in the Normandy models, but its just too juicy to be left aside.

The last one is a balsa wood copy of the Britannia model, this one filled with late M4 Sherman.

 The two LCT 6 filled with M4 Sherman.

Rapid Fire! 1/72nd scale LCT 4, Normandy Landings, 6 June 1944

These LCT 4 are made in the usual balsa wood, Evergreen and in fact in every material that can be used to this purpose, from Lego parts to small bracelets and necklesses, wire, etc.

 The crew are Airfix and many other converted figures.

 The Sherman Crab are Airfix and resin/metal Britannia, the dozers are scratchbuilt  and Churchill AVRE are from Matchbox and Britannia.

 The three LCT 4 were made in diferent times  in a space of 1 or 2 years and the first one served as a "mould" to the next ones in terms of measurements.

My feet for scale.

28mm AOE Casualty Markers Waterloo 1815

This Landwehr casualty markers are Irregular Miniatures napoleonic casualties. There is added Greenstuff to produce the lower part of the Litewka and rolled blankets.

Prussian line casualty markers, again Irregular Miniatures, with some added Green Stuff.

Perry Miniatures plastic casualty markers that are inside the heavy cavalry box. Some have different head gear and one of them is a Irregular Miniature figure.

Same with the british.

28mm AOE Middle Guard Chasseurs Waterloo 1815

Let me stress this: i´m not taking lousy pictures to my fantastic figures and models for you - the "followers"-  to leave two ENTIRE posts without a single comment. No faithful follower do what you have been doing, neglecting your duty, men or women must rise as one and shout: extraordinary work and such.

Yes, my 1st follower was a woman (<3) but all She and He for me are the same. No prejudice, I love you all, well, some more  than others Ok, so lets start writing comments  on the previous posts and don´t forget the next ones.

Now that you all ran to the previous posts, and wrote avidly your comment, here it is the French Middle Guard Chasseurs.

It´s the usual mix of the three main brands of 28mm plastics, were pieces are mixed all together and easily glued and carved as only this material enables.

The guidons and uniforms are taken from the fantastic mont-saint-jean website http://centjours.mont-saint-jean.com/. You don´t need more than this to paint your Waterloo armies.

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28mm AOE Middle Guard Grenadiers Waterloo 1815

Now for the last week´s painted Middle Guard Grenadiers. Its a mixture of Hat, Victrix and Perry bodies and headgear- bicornes, bonnets, etc.

The Middle Guard didn´t seem to have carried eagles but only tricolor fanions, one in each company.

Victrix metal colonel transformed into Guard General with the Greenstuff aid.

The closer general is a Irregular Miniatures with some Greenstuff added to the bicorne.

Some of the coated guardsmen are Perry fusiliers. I made two cuts (L shape) at their shoulders and pluggled those surplus  Victrix epaulettes. Easy and "efficace".

The Middle guard advance on Mont-Saint-Jean in their square anti-cavalry formation. Good luck for them as we know they didn´t have it...