Showing posts with label Hinton Hunt. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Hinton Hunt. Show all posts

Friday, 27 May 2016

3rd Battalion Grenadier Guards

3/1st Foot Guards was commanded by Lt Col Stuart and was in Maitland's Brigade in the 1st Division under Cooke.  It also detached its flank companies to Hougoumont.  The Battalion is shown here in the white cotton drill trousers worn by all Foot Guards at Waterloo.  The figures are the usual mix of Revell, Esci and Hinton Hunt with many conversions.

An Art Miniaturen figure rests on his musket


The officer is am Emhar conversion.


An Esci Austrian conversion

A conversion from the Esci Zulu War British 

An Imex ACW conversion.


The mounted officers are RSM and Newline.  The officer in front is Imex.




Hinton Hunt mounted staff officer with message.


Two Strelets officers




The whole square.  The drummers are Italieri.






I thought I would show all four of the squares I have finished so far. 21 to go!









Thursday, 26 May 2016

1st Battalion 27th Inniskilling Regiment of Foot


1/27th were part of Lambert's 10th Brigade in the 6th Division. At about 6:30 PM, the French captured La Haye Sainte.  They then brought up several cannon and subjected the Allies to fire at extremely close range. The  698-strong battalion was deployed in square at the point where the Ohain road crossed the Brussels highway. By the time the French withdrew, the Inniskillings had lost 105 killed and 373 wounded, a total of 478 casualties, the highest of any British unit at Waterloo.  The unit was described as "lying dead in a square".

The pictures show an earlier point in the day.  The figures are again a mix of Revell, Esci, Hinton Hunt and conversions.


Two officers in the foreground - one Der Kriegspieler, the other 20:20, a short lived firm.



The officer is an Imex conversion.


The Colour Party are Hat

The drummers are Esci in the rear rank and New Line in the front.









Monday, 23 May 2016

1st Battalion Grenadier Guards


1/1st Foot Guards was in Maitland's 1st Brigade of Cooke's 1st Division.  The battalion detached its flank companies to Hougoumont at the beginning of the day but the remainder stood in square against the French Reserve Cavalry attacks.

The Foot Guards at Waterloo wore summer campaign order - shakos and white cotton drill trousers.

The 1st Foot Guards are shown here in square - the figures are mostly Revell and Esci with quite a few conversions in the front kneeling rank.  The third rank consist mostly of Hinton Hunt which are nicely compatible.  

Colour Party, with drums and pioneers in front.  The drummers are mostly Revell with a couple of Hinton Hunt.  The Ensign carrying the Regimental Colour is a 7YW conversion.


Revell officer


Waterloo 1815 and Hat mounted officers.


Four ranks


Revell close up, with some Call To Arms.






Rear view


Strelets officer



The full square



Corner shot



There are 350 figures in the square.