Red Lancers

The 2nd Dutch Lancers of the Guard were hardly Dutch by 1815 with some of their former ranks serving on the other side.  Their informal title of the Red Lancers was a better name for this colourful regiment.

My figures are again a mixture.  The bulk are the Esci set, reinforced by some Mars figures a few Kennington, S Range and Strelets.   I have also taken some liberties with some Strelets and Emhar Crimean figures: the Czapska is a more tapered shape, but with a plume and some painting they are passable.

5th Belgian Light Dragoons

I painted these 5th Belgian Light Dragoons before realising I had mistakenly put them all in officers' shakos.  Never mind, I will change this when I can get round to it.

The figures are all conversions of various origins.

Wrong hat or not, I rather like them.

Prussian Artillery

It's hard to get good plastic Prussian artillery and I haven't yet got round to painting the Hat set despite it being one of their oldest.  So I have converted the Zvezda Russian set and given them Prussian heads.  I have one AM team, which is nicely dramatic with the lead right horse going down.  I also have a few Hinton Hunt.

Men in Grey Coats

I have assembled my Napoleons.  I obviously have no need for more than one, but have nevertheless ended up with quite a number.  A little similar to an Elvis convention.  I need to decide which one gets to go on the diorama.  I can't remember where all the figures came from, but the Napoleon in the Chasseur's Undress is a converted Preiser railwayman in a bicorn.  The others are, I think, Qualicast, Kennington, Italieri, Strelets, S Range and Legio.

Horse Grenadiers

The Horse Grenadiers were another of the big regiments at Waterloo.  Mine are a mix of the Hat set, converted Italieri, Strelets Carabiniers, Strelets Crimean Scots Greys, converted 7YW Austrians, Kennington, AM and S Range.

The officer is Hinton Hunt

French Staff

Here are some of the staff I have collected over the years.   These ones are a mixture of Art Miniaturen and S Range.

Here is General Milhaud with some ADCs

These are Franznap, Qualicast, AM and W1815

I like this Zvezda ADC mounting his horse

General Kellerman and his staff.

One table is Zvezda, the other Qualicast.

Here is Ney and his staff

General Reille and his staff.

Marshal Soult

D'Erlon

Lobau

Drouot

Dismounted staff

French Bands

The extravagant uniforms and military bands of the early to middle Empire had no doubt ceased to exist post-1812.  But it is not unreasonable to suppose bands were reconstituted under the Bourbons.

Here are my bands as they might have existed in 1815.  There is an S Range band in metal, quite chunky but workable.  

The HYTTY band is a one off by that company; the figures a bit flat, but I like them despite their imperfections. 

 I wish I could get more of the Strelets figures, but these are out of production.  

This band in light blue facings are converted largely from Italieri French infantry in bicorns

The Airfix Guards band has been decapitated and replaced with bicorns.  

Finally, I have converted three figures to make kettle drummers for the Polish Lancers, Horse Grenadiers and Mamelukes - I would love to make a mounted band but this will take a little longer and I doubt these would have been at Waterloo. Anyway, my kettle drummers definitely come under the definition of extravagant!