The Light Brigade

Been working on this little project for the last month or so...... and considering the date today decided to share it with you.....

All figures are 28mm Britannia miniatures, painted with Vallejo and Andrea paints

Lord Cardigan and Trumpeter Brittain

17th Lancers - Death or Glory boys

13th Light Dragoons - The Lillywhites

11th Hussars - The Cherrybums!

4th Light Dragoons - Pagets Irregular Horse

8th Hussars - The Crossbelt Hussars

Heading down the valley......

Now for a few Russians

Bc1745

Chris

Waterloo 200 - La Haie Sainte

Continuing with the Waterloo 200 theme some pictures from the bits I have completed from the Warlord set.......

Nassau Officer using a cooking pot to extinguish the fire in the Great Barn

French Engineers led by  Lieutenant Vieux finally break in the main gate....

Thanks for Looking

Bc1745

Waterloo 200 - Capturing of the Eagle of the 105th Ligne

Been a little while due to life problems and work commitments..... Thought I would show off something with a Waterloo theme.......

Firstly, capture of the Eagle of the 105th Ligne by Captain Clark and Cpl Stiles of the 1st(Royal) Dragoons

Controversy still surrounds the capture of the Eagle and a discussion on this can be found in Adkins, The Waterloo Companion p417 to 418

Remembrance..............November 2014

What with the centenary of the start of the First World War, the moving visit with the family to the poppies at the Tower in August and today being Remembrance Sunday I decided to dig out a figure that I bought a while back that was being sold in aid of Combat Stress.

After painting it up I decided on a very simple tableau.........

The grave marker is painted with a single word..........

 'UNKNOWN' 

............the piece is dedicated to all those men, women and children who have lost their lives as the result of conflict.

On this day we especially remember the young men from our families who lost their lives in the First World War......

Cpl James Hannah (MM)

20th Bttn (Wearside Pals) Durham Light Infantry

KIA France 25/03/18

Aged 20

L/C John Budge

3rd Bttn New Zealand Rifles

KIA France 29/08/18

Aged 21

Pvt. David McCallum

Canadian Machine Gun Corps

KIA France 09/10/18

Aged 19

Engine Room Artificer John Hall

Royal Navy (HMS Comus)

Died of Disease 06/04/16

Aged 25

L/C John Hall (MM)

11th Bttn Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders

KIA France 09/04/17

Aged 26

 Pte James Hall 

2nd Bttn Argyll  and Sutherland Highlanders

KIA France 23/10/18

Aged 27

'At the going down of the sun we will remember them......'

My son and I also attended a Show of Hands concert this week where they did some of the tracks off their Remembrance CD ......superb stuff....... Recommended......the readings are particularly good.....

Link

Thank you for looking....

Chris

28mm Britannia Miniatures Polish Lancers of the Guard

So been a little while as work and real life take their toll on my time!

I have completed the Guard Lancers and have decided to put some pictures up for you to look at....

Polish Lancers of the Guard

As has been pointed out I have managed to give all the troopers officers saddle cloths so these will be repainted today.

 

A couple of pictures of the two units together

 

 

 

And finally some more pictures of the Dutch Lancers.......

 

I have got quite a few other models that are almost ready so watch this space

Figures available from

Britannia Miniatures

Thanks for looking

Chris

7th Hussars - 28mm Britannia Miniature WIP

The 7th Hussars were the only French Hussar unit at Waterloo..... Others were detached with other parts of the army. These are the penultimate cavalry figures that I have left to paint for the stand so I started to think about these miniatures today and decided to paint one up as a practice piece.....

Fairly happy with the results so will finish him off tomorrow and then think about doing the rest of the unit

Available from here:

28mm Hussar

Thanks for looking

Chris

Blood Swept Lands and Seas of Red....

Went to London yesterday with the family.........

Went down to the Tower and was moved by the latest art installation in the moat. Thought I would share it with you.......

If you can get to see it I would recommend it.

The moat is being filled between 1st August and 11th November 2014 with 888,246 ceramic poppies.........

This represents one for each British and Commonwealth solider killed during 'The Great War'

A wave of poppies engulfing visitors.......

The poppies can be purchased with the proceeds going to six of the charities who support servicemen and their families

After visiting we purchased one of the poppies and will be recipients of poppy no 296641when the installation finishes.....

'And at the going down of the sun.....we will remember them'

More information here

Poppies in the moat