I haven't posted for ages, but have managed to paint about 500 figures since January - mostly odds and sods, rather than formed units, so not really worthy of a Post. I have, however, done another Lancer Regiment. The 4th Chevau Legers Lanciers were commanded by Lt Col Louis Bro and were in Gobrecht's 2nd Brigade of Jacquinot's Light Cavalry Division at Waterloo.
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Jacquinot |
It was this Brigade which caught the remainder of the Union Brigade in the flank after its famous assault on D'Erlon's Corps (to which Jacquinot's Division was attached).
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Jacquinot's Lancers extracted some retribution for the otherwise destructive effect of the British cavalry on D'Erlon's Corps. Here, the Lancer attack on the Greys is shown in echelon with a Cuirassier brigade. In reality, Ponsonby's men, having fought their way through the Grand Battery and in the mud, would not have sustained this pace. |
The 4th Lancers were one of the smaller regiments at Waterloo and did not have an elite squadron, so all the troopers wore a black horse-hair comb.
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I love the graceful lines of the Lancer helmet |
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Less the trumpeters, whose helmet had a white horse-hair comb |
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These are mostly Waterloo 1815 figures with a few Garrison thrown in for good luck |
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The set comes with too many officers, trumpeters and Guidons, so I have re-purposed most of them as extra lancers |
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There is evidence that some Lancer trumpeters at Waterloo were in Royal rather than Imperial livery, but I've stuck with green. |
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My only other criticism of the Waterloo 1815 set is that the sheepskin saddles are too big, but otherwise the figures are gracefully sculpted. |