Geschichte in Miniaturen

My Waterloo project continues. Liam recently completed a battery of Foot Artillery of the Old Guard. I've put these on my Waterloo model just North of La Belle Alliance; these join two other batteries in the same area. Having got the section out of its box, I have also photographed other figures in ...

Thanks Salaberry, the figures are from many different sources, including lots of conversions.

I've added a few new pictures of this section of the diorama, involving another carriage from the talented Mr Flood and some other figures. Hope you enjoy. https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgxewGVERKHwkWC_E9nV7ehHlYHi48oRbD1ytQehE6b4Ml3p1x03IXuv-tkDnPuFCsUzDU7Xi21zUs-Mz4aGnB...

I'm really enjoying seeing how this progresses.

Danke Wolfgang!

Thank you Egbert!

Rossome Farmhouse at Waterloo is not well known for two reasons: first, it burnt down and is now completely eradicated with no trace of the building. Secondly, it was a long way behind the front line. And yet it is important to the Waterloo story because it was here that Napoleon spent most of the d...

Thanks Wolfgang!

The British used rockets designed by Sir William Congreve, comptroller of the Woolwich Laboratory. Prior to Waterloo rockets were used at Copenhagen where 40,000 were fired, in the Peninsula and at Leipzig. The Duke of Wellington was however suspicious of their value and wrote from Spain to the Secr...

I've been working on Wellington and his staff. It turns out there was a lot more of them than I had imagined. They stand near the cross roads by the famous elm tree, with a square of the KGL behind. The staff consist of his senior officers, ADCs, extra ADCs, foreign observers and orderlies. https://...