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Cavalry Corps - French 15mm Waterloo

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Armée du Nord 15mm Napoleon Bonaparte Waterloo Campaign IV Reserves Corps Here we go again, it’s Friday and it’s time for another post. We have moved onto French 15mm epics last week. At 1:10 ratio, this is an army of over 4000 miniatures across 4 separate Corps, making up roughly half the French that were present at the Battle of Waterloo. 1st Cuirassiers Regiment 1st Cuirassiers - red cuffs As you might of noticed with most of my posts army’s I paint take on a little story all of their own when I create them. These posts end up reflecting elements of that story. In this instance my French started off focused on the opening attack on Le Haye Sainte, but then slowly this expanded into 1st Corps massed infantry attack.  4th Cuirassiers - orange cuffs This happened naturally because I had worked out the most efficient painting regime with these is to paint a sprue at a time, this comes from experience of the ACW. Less than a sprue means you end up going back to paint Brigade assets l...
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d'Erlon's Corps - French 15mm Waterloo

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Armée du Nord 15mm Napoleon Bonaparte Waterloo Campaign  1er and 2e Bataillons, 54e Régiment de Ligne This week we move onto my next army, following on from ACW, these are also mainly 15mm Warlord Epics. Though we will see some 3D printed resin in later posts, in the main I just varied painting styles for different units as required.  d'Erlon's Corps - 11am 18th June 1815 I brought the French starter box set sometime in 2021 I think, and decided to paint just line regiments, I was focusing on the opening parts of the Battle of Waterloo around  La Haye Sainte . But as I got into painting these, it quickly escalated into painting all for the 1st Corps for its massed attack at 11am. Above is my first Regiment 54th Line. 1er and 2e Bataillons, 55e Régiment de Ligne This also further led to painting the whole of the Imperial Guard Corps because I wanted to paint some of the later Imperial Guard released models by Warlord Games, and was looking forward to some of the doody unif...
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Location: Winchester SO21, UK
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American Civil War - Lee, Stuart and Picketts Division

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ACW 15mm Epics Generals This week I will try and keep it short and just summarise the remaining elements of this army. Starting with General Lee and Divisional Commanders. ‘Old Man on the Hill’   This little diorama was really easy to achieve, I used the limited edition models that came with the epic battles box set from Warlord Games. I also cut one strip into bits to reflect a unit marching past. Brig Kempton and Armistead The next little conversion was made using the same strips command but separating them and repositioning arms, and cleaning up with green stuff. This allowed me to make Brig Armistead with his hat on his sword for Pickett's charge. Stuart, Longstreet, Pickett with more Brigs Last of the commanders are above I am sure you are familiar with them all. Two figures on a base are Divisional, and one Brigade, using a mixture of Peter Pig and Warlord Games together here. Bases are just sand and a few rocks not painted to give a dusty feel of summer. Some small patches o...
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Location: Winchester SO21, UK
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American Civil War - Texians

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ACW 15mm Epics The Texas Brigade It has been a few weeks since I posted last and wanted to get this post out to continue my plunge into the ACW army I painted over COVID.  1st Texas Regiment Last time out we saw the first two brigades I painted and how they differed in style and converstions. Here using Peter Pigs 15mm range I even managed to fit 10 per rank onto the same base size as the Warlord Games range. I think this is useful to show as I know I was looking for size comparisons and alternative references while I was collecting this army. 4th Texas Regiment For the Texan Brigade the choice of painting here is more red shirts and straw hats for the 1st Regiment with more confederate grey coming into the 4th and 5th Regiments. I was trying to achieve the historical accuracy of the Texan Bridge having a more militant feel for cowboys, ranchers and farm hands.  These stand out quite well on the table top and are not too big a size difference. In addition the Texians did widel...
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Location: Winchester SO21, UK
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